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The following article was recently published by PLOS One. Title Peer Review and Preprint Policies are Unclear at Most Major Journals Authors Tony Ross-Hellauer Graz University of Technology, Austria Thomas KlebelStefan ReichmannJessica PolkaGary McDowellNaomi PenfoldSamantha Hindle Source PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239518DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239518 Abstract Clear and findable publishing policies are important for authors to choose appropriate […]
Look at All of the Open Access Content Discoverable and Accessible via WorldCat
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|From OCLC OCLC is supporting libraries, researchers, educators and students with high-quality open access content that is discoverable and freely accessible through WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org. “Libraries are increasingly managing open access scholarly publications as part of their overall content management,” said Suzanne Kemperman, OCLC Director, Business Development and Publisher Relations. “The inclusion of open […]
Here’s What Google Does Illegally, According to the DOJ (via WIRED) PLOS and Transparency (including Plan S Price & Service Transparency Framework) The Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Generations Fund Seeks to Raise $500,000 in Philanthropic Support What We Know and Can Agree On: Wikipedia at 20 (via Esquire)
JISC and Public Library of Science (PLOS) Announce Two 3-Year APC-Free Open Access Agreements
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|From a PLOS and JISC Joint Announcement: Jisc, the digital solutions provider for education and research in the UK, and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced two 3-year Open Access (OA) agreements that allow researchers to publish in PLOS journals without incurring article processing charges (APC). This is the first time that a […]
University of California Has Resumed Formal Negotiations with Elsevier
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|From a UC Davis Library Blog Post by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship: While we are still out of contract, UC has resumed negotiations with the publisher in hopes of finally achieving a deal that provides for more open access publishing of UC research in Elsevier journals and restores UC’s […]
Roundup (October 13, 2020)
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|ACRL Begins Search for New Executive Director, Job Posting Now Available All for One…Health for All: The Role of Open Access, Evidence-Based Information to Improve Health for All Species (via National Library of Medicine) OpenAire Research Graph Information Page Now Live ICEYE Shares Nearly 18,000 Satellite Image Catalog Under Creative Commons License New Digital Science/PLOS […]
Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) Launches to Promote Discovery of Research, New Cross-Publisher Initiative Calls for Unrestricted Availability of Abstracts
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|From Today’s I4OA Launch Announcement: The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research. I4OA—a collaboration between scholarly publishers, academic librarians, researchers, infrastructure providers and other stakeholders—will […]
The following systematic literature review was recently published by PLOS One. Title What Drives and Inhibits Researchers to Share and Use Open Research Data? A Systematic Literature Review to Analyze Factors Influencing Open Research Data Adoption Authors Anneke ZuiderwijkDelft University of Technology Rhythima ShindeETH Zürich Wei Jeng National Taiwan University Source PLoS ONE 15(9): e0239283DOI: […]
The following article was published online today by PLOS One. Title The Impact of Skim Reading and Navigation When Reading Hyperlinks on the Web Authors Gemma Fitzsimmons University of Southampton Lewis T. Jayes University of Surrey Mark J. Weal University of Southampton Denis Drieghe University of Southampton Source PLOS ONE 15(9): e0239134 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239134 Abstract […]
Community Networks Adapt to New Realities Under COVID: A DWeb Meetup Recap (via Internet Archive) PLOS and LibLynx Partner to Develop Open Access Analytics SirsiDynix Launches the Community Engagement Platform Texas A&M University Libraries to Participate in First Annual Ray Bradbury Read-A-Thon