(1 April 2016) On March 4, 2016, the National Institute of Informatics (NII) hosted a meeting of the Asian open access (OA) community in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting was co-organized by COAR and held in conjunction with the Research Data Alliance Plenary meeting. The aim of the meeting was to introduce members of the Asian…
(18 March 2016) EIFL has invited guest blogger Dr Ku Liping, of the National Science Library, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, to share highlights from the growing open access and open data movement in China. He covers open access policies and their impact, data librarianship, awareness raising and advocacy backed up with impressive numbers.…
(10 February 2016) EIFL, in association with the University of Mandalay and the University of Yangon, will run a series of seminars and meetings to finalize institutional open access policies and launch open access repositories. The seminars and meetings will take place between 2 – 9 March, and are part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar…
(22 January 2016) The National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan and COAR are co-organizing a meeting of the Asian OA Community in Tokyo, Japan on March 4th, 2016 in conjunction with the Research Data Alliance meeting. The aim of this meeting is to establish an Asian community of practice which can share OA related…
(18 December 2015) On December 8 and 9, 2015, representatives from several regions (Asia, Europe, and North America) met in Berlin, Germany, to discuss a proposal to flip subscription-based journals to open access models. The initiative is being led by the Max Planck Society, the organizer and host of the invitation-only Berlin 12 Open Access…
(19 October 2015) A new Open Research at ANU website launched today, coinciding with International Open Access Week, delivering a comprehensive guide to the benefits and policy requirements of open access publishing for researchers and academics at The Australian National University. The new website has been designed to: Enable the world to access the great research…
(9 October 2015) A thousand dollars, a hundred thousand or a million? Peter Lund, the UC Research Support Manager and Anton Angelo, Research Data Co-ordinator, University of Canterbury, New Zealand have tried to calculate how much the University of Canterbury pays in article processing charges (APCs). The question was not easy to answer. University financial systems were…
(24 August 2015) The paper, by Joachim Schöpfel aims to investigate the impact of the open access movement on the document supply of grey literature. The paper is based on a comparative survey of five major scientific and technical information centres: The British Library (UK), KM (Canada), INIST-CNRS (France), KISTI (South Korea) and TIB Hannover (Germany).…
(13 August 2015) A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of open access publications. In 2014, 40% of scientists who had not published open access in the last three years said “I am…
(29 July 2015, Washington, D.C). Today, public access to federally-funded research took one momentous move forward with the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ vote to support the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015 (FASTR). The legislation would accelerate scientific discovery and fuel innovation by making articles reporting…
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