One of the most recurring (and sometimes tiresome) debates in our area is the one about the relative merits of institutional and subject-based repositories. Which if the two is better for the long-term curation of content?…
A new RIN/NESTA project will look at a series case studies examining what motivates researchers to work in an open way with regard to their data.…
I attended the Repositories Support Project’s ‘The role of open access and repositories in the arts: a forum for discussion’ on 14 July 2009, which raised the issue of why arts institutions don’t seem to have the same kind of usage of, and engagement with, …
The RIN and Universities UK have published new detailed and practical guidance for all those who deal with the arrangements for paying for open access publication charges. News release - 21 April 2009 …
The RIN and UUK have produce new practical guidance aimed at all those involved in the arrangements for paying the fees charged by publishers for making articles open access.…
This guidance gives advice on paying for open access publication charges in journals and sets out recommendations for higher education institutions, publishers, research funders, and authors.…
We were delighted to be invited to Scotland’s first conference on the Open access research repository – what’s in it for you? on 13 February at the University of Stirling.…
For the past few days there has been a flurry of activity on the Open Knowledge Foundation Network (OKFN) open science mailing list, as a result of a blog post by Michael Nielson on The Role of Open Licensing in Open Science.…
Is it just my awakened interest in cataloguing and metadata or is there suddenly a lot going on in the bibliographic data - cataloguing - metadata area? …
Scholarly communications is integral to expanding the boundaries of knowledge and understanding.…
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