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November 8th, 2013
(Published Oct. 25 by Ian Chant, Library Journal) Agricultural research can take seasons to come to fruition, meaning the data researchers gather is voluminous, tracking things like weather patterns and crop yields over years. A failure to establish data standards and sharing practices means that most of these raw figures never make it out of more…
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The Universal streaming archive of the October 25, 2013 “Scientific Reproducibility: Opportunities and Challenges for Open Research Data and Code” presentation by Victoria Stodden is available for online viewing at the following URL: Victoria Stodden Presentation Abstract: It is now widely recognized that the traditional published article is insufficient to permit verification of computational results. more…
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue e-Pubs, one of the three institutional repositories as part of Purdue University Libraries, has reached another significant milestone, hitting 5 million downloads this past month. A key collection piece downloaded as part of this milestone is the Birck and NCN publication series, one of the most popular and highly utilized more…
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WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — In association with Open Access Week – Oct. 21 to 27, 2013, Purdue University Libraries has launched a new, Open Access website with key resources, timely information and University expertise on the issues and topics related to Open Access. The website is located at: lib.purdue.edu/openaccess Open Access (OA) describes the online, more…
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October 5, 2013 marks the 1 year anniversary of the launching of Open Access Now. Open Access Now is a team-managed, one stop source for news, policy and current writing about open access and scholarly communication. The purpose of this publication is to centralize and aggregate the variety of information that is published, online or more…
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Read the recent responses from the Directory of Open Access Journals and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association to the recent “sting” that was reported in Science in an article entitled, “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review.”
Filed under: Open_Access | Comments Off on DOAJ and OASPA Respond to Science ArticleOctober 9th, 2013
In the recent edition of the Digital Commons DC Telegraph, Bepress discusses how well the Digital Commons community is positioned to participate in the Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE). Proposed by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the SHARE model puts institutional more…
Filed under: Open_Access | Comments Off on Digital Commons Community Well-Positioned to Participate in SHAREOctober 9th, 2013
Announced on September 16, 2013 the “Open Letter to the Higher Education Community” in support of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) bill. This important bipartisan bill introduced into both the House and the Senate in February, now has a growing list of higher education leaders who have signed an open letter underscoring more…
Filed under: Open_Access | Comments Off on University Provosts and Presidents Show Support of Proposed Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) billOctober 9th, 2013
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has recently released a summary of the feedback it has received on the revised DOAJ selection criteria.
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In a recent American Libraries magazine article, Meredith Farkas, head of instructional services at Portland (Oreg.) State University, discusses the changing publishing landscape and libraries as publishers.
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