Open Access Books: Knowledge Unlatched Officially Launches Open Research Library
From KU:
Open Access (OA) content on one seamless and easy-to-use platform: that is the goal of the Open Research Library (ORL), which has officially launched today at www.openresearchlibrary.org.
[At launch on Jan. 29, 2020, Open Research Libraries provides access to 7202 books/49,432 chapters.]
A number of leading players in the library and OA community have joined forces to support the ORL for the benefit of researchers, scientists and academic institutions worldwide, including Knowledge Unlatched, Biblioboard, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest with the Ex Libris Primo and Summon library discovery services, and OCLC with their creation of MARC records and indexing in WorldCat and WorldCat Discovery.
A powerful hosting platform that makes scientific book publications, and other high-quality academic OA content, freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, ORL provides free access to a comprehensive collection of thousands of scholarly monographs, anthologies, journals, videos, posters and other formats.
Direct to Open Research Library
Read the Complete Announcement
Note: Open Research Library was first released on May 16, 2019.
Filed under: Academic Libraries, EBSCO, Ex Libris, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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