Indonesia launches open data portal
(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.
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ANU publishes revised Open Access policy and procedures
(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.
The discoverability challenge – how can we make research data easier to find and use?
(20 August 2014) The Wellcome Trust reports that the need to make data more readily discoverable to users is widely recognised as one of the fundamental barriers to more effective data sharing. Enhancing the discoverability of public health and epidemiology research data is a key to ensuring that it gets more widely used. This was…
More images from the J. Paul Getty Museum
(13 August 2014) Artstor and the J. Paul Getty Museum have released more than 5,000 images from the museum’s Open Content Program in the Digital Library. The Getty’s Open Content Program makes available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain. Among the images now available in…
U.S. Department of Energy increases access to results of doe-funded scientific research
(4 August 2014, Washington, D.C) The U.S. Department of Energy is introducing new measures to increase access to scholarly publications and digital data resulting from Department-funded research. The Energy Department has launched the Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science – PAGES – a web-based portal that will provide free public access to accepted peer-reviewed…
Springer celebrates open access milestone
(21 July 2014) Springer is celebrating the milestone of 200,000 open access articles published to date. The articles, published across BioMed Central, and SpringerOpen are freely available and published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Springer now has 417 open access journals publishing across all areas of science – 265 at BioMed Central and 152…
The SCOAP3 repository: OAI-PMH feed now available
(18 July 2014) The SCOAP3 repository hosts Open Access articles published under the SCOAP3 initiative. It is built on Open Source software and is now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds. It has been recently featured at the Open Repository 2014 conference. The SCOAP3 initiative has converted to Open Access the majority of the…
Open Access Week competition now open
(16 July 2014) INASP has announced the 2014 Open Access Week competition, an annual INASP/UNESCO collaboration aimed at showcasing the Open Access activities of universities and research institutions within developing and emerging countries. Want to compete? Here has the details.
Reveal Digital launches new library crowdfunding site
(27 June 2014, Las Vegas) Expanding on the success of its “cost recovery=open access” model, Reveal Digital announced the launch of its new crowdfunding site at the American Library Association Annual Meeting. “In contrast to mass digitization efforts and commercially driven projects, we are putting complete control of collection creation in the hands of the…
Thomson Reuters and Singapore Management University collaborate to manage research lifecycle
(26 June 2014, Singapore) The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a decision by Singapore Management University (SMU) to adopt its Converis solution as the platform for holistic management of its research lifecycle. Converis is a comprehensive system providing pre-and-post-award…