(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.
(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…
(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…
(18 June 2014) OEDb.org lists and describes several little known collections offering millions of free hi-res images. Visit the list here.
(16 June 2014) OASPA held its 1st Asian Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Bangkok, Thailand, 2-3 June 2014. Prompted by the rapid growth in OA across this region in recent years, this international conference brought together academic publishers, librarians and the research community to discuss open access publishing as a global industry with…
(12 June 2014) The HKUST library has created for its research community, Scholarly Communications@HKUST Library. It covers getting published, data management, open access, research repositories and more. Take a look here.
(9 June 2014) The Open and Shut? blog curated by Richard Poynder interviews S. Arunachalam on what is happening with open access in India, and the form that it is taking. Read the interview here.
(3 June 2014) The Museum of New Zealand has made over 30,000 images downloadable, for free, in the highest resolution. You can search for and download them at Collections Online. Read the illustrated announcement.
(27 May 2014) Open access publication Scientific Data has launched online today, publishing its first eight Data Descriptors across fields including neuroscience, ecology and epidemiology. Scientific Data is the latest open research initiative from Nature Publishing Group. Data Descriptors, Scientific Data’s article type, are peer-reviewed, scientific publications that provide detailed descriptions of experimental and observational…
(27 May 2014, Bristol) IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced the launch of a three-year pilot project under which 20 participating universities will be able to offset the majority of their expenditure on hybrid article publication charges (APCs) in IOP journals against their subscription and licence fees. The agreement follows discussions between IOP, Research Libraries…
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