By digitising and releasing its collection of 80 million specimens for anyone to access, NHM engages people around the world to discover, analyse and even 3D print them (13 October 2015) In the run up to the ODI Summit on 3 November, ODI spoke to Ben Scott, the U.K’s Natural History Museum’s Data Portal Lead…
(20 October 2015) A new prize challenging innovators from around the world to unleash the huge potential of open access content and data for societal benefit is launched today by the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative of the National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Open Science…
(19 October 2015) A new Open Research at ANU website launched today, coinciding with International Open Access Week, delivering a comprehensive guide to the benefits and policy requirements of open access publishing for researchers and academics at The Australian National University. The new website has been designed to: Enable the world to access the great research…
19 October 2015) In A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access written for this week Peter Suber identifies open access literature as “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions“. The definitions of open access provided by the founding meetings for open access to scholarly research were deep and broad.…
(14 October 2015, Melville, NY) AIP Publishing announced today that from this month it is one of the first STM publishers to begin making federally funded research articles it publishes in its journals publicly available through CHORUS (Clearing House for the Open Research of the United States). Over the next twelve months, AIP Publishing will…
(9 October 2015) A thousand dollars, a hundred thousand or a million? Peter Lund, the UC Research Support Manager and Anton Angelo, Research Data Co-ordinator, University of Canterbury, New Zealand have tried to calculate how much the University of Canterbury pays in article processing charges (APCs). The question was not easy to answer. University financial systems were…
(1 October 2015) New light is shed on the volume and market characteristics of so-called ‘predatory’ scholarly journal publishing in a study conducted by researchers from Hanken School of Economics and published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. The study shows the number of articles published in journals defined as such that have increased…
(29 September 2015) Paperity, the open-access aggregator, and the Open Library of Humanities are united in their commitment to solid discoverability principles for open-access articles at the OLH. Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers. It aims to give readers easy and unconstrained access to thousands of journals from hundreds…
(11 September 2015) Belinda Weaver writes on the many benefits of open data. Including: Open data makes things more efficient; Open data helps join things up; Open data democratises access; Open data enables new businesses; and Open data saves lives. The Australian Open Access Support Group has the story.
Richard Poynder writes on LIBLICENSE (9 September 2015): What many now refer to as predatory publishing first came to my attention 7 years ago, when I interviewed a publisher who — I had been told — was bombarding researchers with invitations to submit papers to, and sit on the editorial boards of, the hundreds of…
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