A new independent working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible. The group will propose a programme of action and make recommendations to government, research funders…
In March 2009, RIN, in association with Universities UK, issued its guidance on paying for open access (OA) publication charges.…
We’ve known for a long time that the scholarly journal publishing business is highly-skewed; or, putting it another way, that it provides a classic instance of the long tail.…
The Association of European Research Libraries is registered as the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER), and is the main research libraries network in Europe.…
New RIN/NESTA project looks at a series case studies examining what motivates researchers to work in an open way with regard to their data.…
MELIBEA is a directory and validator of institutional open-access (OA) policies regarding scientific and academic work. As a directory, it describes the existing policies.…
Though this guide is published by SPARC, it is not presented as an advocacy document promoting the launch of OA Funds: rather it is predicated on an awareness that institutions are curious about these Funds. …
In October 2009, SURF, the higher education and research partnership for network services and ICT in the Netherlands, launched a site that was aimed to be developed on behalf of the whole higher education sector. …
The tension in the modern research environment between the long-standing academic principle of free and open access to research and the commercial need for confidentiality to protect competitive advantage, is well known to the academic community.…
Anyone reading this blog is likely to agree that we are at the beginning of potentially the most exciting, creative and fruitful period in the history of science.…
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