(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.
(22 June 2015) Libgen, the largest online repository of free books and academic articles, has pretty much vanished from the internet. Earlier this month the site’s operators were sued by academic publishing company Elsevier, who asked a New York federal court for a preliminary injunction hoping to keep the site down for good. Most of…
(4 June 2015) Artstor is now making all media collections from open-access library Shared Shelf Commons accessible alongside the Artstor Digital Library. More than 200,000 image, video, document, and audio files from Shared Shelf subscribers in the ever-growing resource can now be searched alongside the 1.9 million images in the Artstor Digital Library. The content…
(3 June 2015, New York/Stuttgart) What is a fair price for an author to publish their article in a journal? With the launch of their new journal The Surgery Journal Thieme is hoping to try to answer this question. Thieme is proud to announce their collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich’s School of Management and…
(3 June 2015) The iGLAM Lab is a laboratory for innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and is a part of the National Institute for Experimental Arts at UNSW Australia. iGLAM is a research group that works at the intersection of emerging technology and cultural heritage. They seek to use cutting edge technology to…
(29 May 2015) EIFL has a new seven-month project ‘Open Access: Greater Reach for Research’ with Open Access Nepal – a student led initiative – that will advocate for open access in major universities and colleges in five regions of Nepal. In a few weeks universities will be opened again in Nepal (they have been…
(27 May 2015) The Open Knowledge Foundation in partnership with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is pleased to announce the launch of Data Journalism Ph 2015. Supported by the World Bank, the program will train journalists and citizen media in producing high-quality, data-driven stories. The program take place in July 2015. In recent years,…
(27 May 2015) OpenGLAM is an initiative that is dedicated to sharing knowledge and aims to build a global cultural commons for the world to use. Coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, OpenGLAM works with cultural institutions such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums to open up their content and data to the world through hands-on workshops,…
(20 May 2015) EIFL – in association with the University of Mandalay and the University of Yangon – will organize a series of seminars on open access as a part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project. A guest speaker – Fred Chan, Research and Data Services Librarian, the University of Hong Kong Libraries – will…
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