(3 May 2014) The Central Library of Syiah Kuala University in Indonesia’s Aceh province is developing its open access service for students and faculty. In particular, the library is facilitating searching by integrating its opac and repository using the power of Google technology. This solved a pressing problem of declining search performance as the number…
(28 April 2014, Bellingham, Washington, USA) Research articles by authors at Max Planck Society institutes that are published in SPIE journals will be open access under a new agreement with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Under the agreement, the Max Planck Society will pay open access fees for articles submitted by researchers…
(25 April 2014) The open access search tool Jurn.org has just completed a significant expansion, undertaken throughout March/April 2014. Jurn.org had previously only indexed its core collection of over 4,000 arts and humanities eJournals, all open access or otherwise free. The new Jurn.org expansion has now added a large intake of business, science, biomedical and…
(23 April 2014) The Getty Research Institute has just added more than 77,000 high-resolution images to the Open Content Program from two of its most often-used collections. The largest part of the new open content release – more than 72,000 photographs – comes from the collection Foto Arte Minore: Max Hutzel photographs of art and…
(17 April 2014) A new British Academy report offers the first full evidence-based analysis of the impact of UK Open Access policies on the current pattern of humanities and social science journal publishing. The report, Open Access journals in Humanities and Social Science, investigates some of the major issues involved in the UK’s Open Access…
(4 April 2014) Nature Partner Journals is a new series of online open access journals, published in collaboration with world-renowned international partners. Partners currently include the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. The announcement is here.
(29 March 2014) Jisc today welcomed the announcement by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for Employment and Learning that from 2016 they will expect all articles submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system for assessing the quality of research, to be…
(28 March 2014) The Wellcome Trust recently published details of how much it spent on open access publishing in the year 2012-2013 in an attempt to make the debate around the costs of open access publishing more evidence-based. The data fuelled much discussion online and Robert Kiley, Head Digital Services at the Wellcome Library, gives…
(24 March 2014) The University of Waikato has become the first university in New Zealand to approve a mandate around open access to academics’ publications. The Open Access Mandate Guidelines were approved this month by the University of Waikato’s Academic Board. Under the guidelines, academic staff can disseminate their research as widely as possible, bringing…
(4 March 2014) The purpose of the policy is support the University of Wollongong’s commitment to the dissemination and promotion of its research findings as widely as possible. A significant mechanism to do this is through the deposit of publication metadata and final manuscripts into the University’s institutional research repository, in accordance with the objectives…
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