(10 September 2015) Indonesia is now working on a massive inventory of its plant biodiversity to create a digital herbarium. Called Xmalesia, the open access project trains young Indonesian scientists to collect, identify and store data of Indonesian flora and enables them to work together across Indonesia’s vast archipelago, and with scientists around the world,…
(26 August 2015) Antonio Acuna, Head of Data.gov.uk; Michael Canares, Regional Research Manager, Open Data Lab Jakarta; Tricia Yeoh, Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), discuss open data on BFM 89.9, Malaysia’s business radio station. Listen to the podcast.
(24 August 2015) The paper, by Joachim Schöpfel aims to investigate the impact of the open access movement on the document supply of grey literature. The paper is based on a comparative survey of five major scientific and technical information centres: The British Library (UK), KM (Canada), INIST-CNRS (France), KISTI (South Korea) and TIB Hannover (Germany).…
(20 August 2015) Less than two years after being formed the Australian Open Access Support Group has become the Australasian Open Access Support Group, with the joining of all the New Zealand Libraries under its umbrella organisation, Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL). Open Access, and the wider Open Scholarship movement are currently some…
(17 August 2015) Research Councils UK (RCUK), on behalf of the UK Open Research Data Forum, has today (17 August 2015) published a draft Concordat on Open Research Data, which sets out expectations of good practice in publishing research data openly. The Concordat aims to help ensure that research data gathered and generated by members…
(13 August 2015) A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of open access publications. In 2014, 40% of scientists who had not published open access in the last three years said “I am…
(29 July 2015, Washington, D.C). Today, public access to federally-funded research took one momentous move forward with the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ vote to support the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015 (FASTR). The legislation would accelerate scientific discovery and fuel innovation by making articles reporting…
(2 July 2015) SHERPA/FACT, the funders and author’s compliance tool, has been found to be more than 95% accurate when checking publisher policies against funder mandates for open access – significantly higher than even experienced repository managers. A study by the SHERPA/FACT advisory group compared the information provided by SHERPA/FACT with a control made up…
(30 June 2015, Hoboken, NJ) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced their partnership with London- based data repository organization, Figshare. To support authors who wish to openly share their data, Wiley have embarked on this partnership with Figshare to integrate data sharing within existing journal workflows and article publication. The new data sharing service…
(23 June 2015) Marie Lebert provides a timelime showing the development of open access from from 1665 to 2015. 1665 saw the publication of the first journals. But open access as we know it started in 1991 with the development of arXiv. The chronology is here.
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