We were lucky enough to have Donna Okubo from PLOS join us for Open Access festivities here at Cal State Northridge. In a blog post, I discuss open access, efforts in California to create OA mandates, CSUN's repository SOAR (ScholarWorks Open Access Repository) &c.…

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As part of OA Week 2014, the Scholastica team hosted a recorded panel discussion entitled- Inside the Editors’…

VIVO is an open source semantic web application that enables the discovery of researchers and scholars and their interests, accomplishments, activities, datasets, and other related resources. VIVO provides the capability to locate…

Agro-Know is a company that captures, organizes and adds value to the rich information available in agricultural and biodiversity sciences, in order to make it universally accessible, useful and meaningful. It is an active contributor in European and international standardization initiatives in relation to the agricultural data representation and storage, with involvement in fora such as the …

Winchester, MA  DSpaceDirect (http://dspacedirect.org) is a hosted repository solution for low-cost discovery, access, archiving, and preservation.  DSpaceDirect is available with…

The EC-commisioned Science-Metrix study has a lot of interesting and useful information that I hope the EC will apply and use.

Access Timing. The fundamental problem highlighted by the Science-Metrix findings is timing: Over 50% of all articles published since 2007 are freely available…

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Winchester, MA  Fedora (http://fedorarepository.org) is a robust, modular open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content. It is especially suited for digital…

rpa_red es el acrónico de nuestra recientemente creada Red de Publicaciones Académicas Abiertas, que reúne diferentes revistas inglesas y españolas de acceso libre. El principal objetivo es ayudar a las revistas miembros de la red a ganar visibilidad y darles una voz pública para reclamar en favor del pensamiento libre, la liberta de formatos de edición y la innovación en cuestiones epistémicas y metodológicas. Fuertemente presionados por las políticas derivadas de la aplicación de los…

10 países y más de 100 participantes en Curso Internacional #ColeccióndeRevistas #AccesoAbierto. Redalyc, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. …

Publishing open access provides greater visibility, leads to more citations and helps develop research on a global scale. We asked early career researcher …