MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
Data Curation and Access: Portal for Earth Science Data Exploration (DataONE) Launches Online
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From the U. of California Data Curation Center: As research in the Earth and environmental sciences evolves to become more data-intensive, the ability to discover, integrate and analyze massive amounts of heterogeneous scientific information has become critical to enabling researchers to address complex questions about the environment and our role within it. DataONE, the Data […]
From the Wellcome Library Blog: A collaboration among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine […]
UK: New National Data Repository for Social and Economic Data Will Launch on October 1st
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|From the Economic and Social Research Council (UK): Continuing access to the UK’s most valuable collection of social and economic data has been secured with a £17 million investment over five years for the UK Data Service. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the new service which will start on the 1st […]
World’s Second Largest Fashion Collection at The Chicago History Museum Goes Digital
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From ArtDaily.org: The Chicago History Museum announces the launch of the online Digital Collection which currently features 1,382 digital images representing nearly 400 costumes, accessories, and fashion drawings including all costume materials exhibited in the museum’s Charles James, Dior, Bertha Palmer, Chic Chicago, and I Do exhibitions. [Clip] Garments by Gianni Versace, Christian Dior, Charles […]
Video: METRO Collaborative Digitization Showcase – Local and Global Collaboration
Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|The video is a recording of METRO (Metropolitan New York Library Council) online event. It was recorded on June 11, 2012. The program runs 77 minutes. Collaborative digitization projects are an important method of exposing library collections to a broader audience and meeting users’ growing demand for online resources. During this program, we will hear […]
Yale Law School’s Legal Scholarship Repository Passes One Million Downloads
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
|Congrats and kudos to the Goldman Library staff. From the Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale Law School): We’ve reached a milestone in library this morning: we have had over a million downloads of legal scholarship from our repository. The repository currently contains over 4,000 articles from faculty and students, and it features special collections, such […]
The letter was written by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC, and discusses the recent OA developments in the EC and UK. It also urges him to, “implement public access policies at all US science and technology agencies.” Direct to Full Text Letter
Note: The “Go For Gold” Pilot is Currently Available Only in UK. From the RSC: The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a groundbreaking £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to Gold Open Access (OA). ‘Gold for Gold’ is an innovative experiment to support the funder led evolution to […]
Open Access: SCOAP3 Tendering Process Complete, Twelve Journals from Seven Publishers Will Particpate
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From a SCOAP3 Announcement: SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is pleased to announce that its tendering process is now complete. Acting for the benefit of SCOAP3, CERN conducted the tendering process and, on the basis of the bids submitted by publishers, has identified 12 journals from 7 publishers for participation […]
From a F1000.com Post by Adie Chan: At the start of this year, we announced our plans to develop a new project – F1000 Research – an attempt to create a new open access, open data publishing model within biology and medicine, with open and transparent peer review. Well, we’re pleased to announce that the […]