(12 October 2014) Jurn.org notes that that Paperity has ripped all the Springer.com open access articles from hybrid journals, into a TOCs directory and article pages, along with a basic search tool. The list of linked journals is here. (9 October 2014) With the beginning of the new academic year, Paperity, the first multidisciplinary aggregator…
(8 October 2014) Open access (OA) repositories are key components of the research infrastructure. They provide open access to the products of research and reflect an emerging commitment by research institutions towards the stewardship of the research outputs. Repositories are also becoming an important source of administrative information for governments, funding agencies and for tracking…
2 October 2014) EIFL reports that Open Access Nepal – a student lead initiative – will be hosting a series of events in Nepal during International Open Access Week 2014. These activities and events will help to raise awareness regarding open access and promote open access policies and principles in the country. Students, researchers, librarians…
(2 October 2014) The Governor of California has approved free access to the public of the results of state funded research one year after publication in a peer-reviewed journal. More here.
(23 September 2014) Nature Communications is to become the first Nature-branded open access only journal. The number one open access journal in multidisciplinary sciences (according to 2013 Journal Citation Reports), Nature Communications is Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) flagship open access title. Nature Communications will only accept open access research submissions from 20th October 2014. Nature…
(18 September 2014, Geneva) The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN1) jointly announce a partnership to make all CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection to be open access. Articles in APS’ Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C in 2015 and 2016 will be…
(17 September 2014) A consortium of six leading UK medical research charities will support the costs of making research articles from their funded research immediately and freely openly available to scientists, patients, and donors alike, through the recently announced joint Charity Open Access Fund. David Carr of the Wellcome Trust, Sanjay Thakrar of the British…
(29 August 2014) The BBC website reports that an American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images. Kalev Leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to Flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added. The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library…
(5 September 2014) The Indonesian government has officially launched its open data portal today, starting off with 700 datasets from 24 agencies. Medha Basu has the story at futuregov.asia.
(28 August 2014) The revised Open Access policy requires researchers to deposit a copy of most research outputs to the University’s open access research repository, the ANU Digital Collections, within 12 months of publication. More about the new policy is here.
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