Collabra is now open for submissions
Copyright Collabra 2015 The open access journal Collabra is now open for submissions. Collabra is a fully open access mega-journal covering three main fields of study: Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Life and…
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iFutures 2015 conference
©2014 University of Sheffield The iFutures 2015 conference is now open for registration. The conference, now in its third year, is run by and for postgraduate researchers in the information science community. This…
Catalogue records now available for Open Book Publishers titles
Regular readers might remember a previous post about about the Library’s collection of Open Access e-books from Open Book Publishers (OBP). The Library’s expert cataloguers have completed their work creating records…
Our lives in a year of Open Access support
As part of our contribution to the Jisc Pathfinder project Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education (LOCH), the Library has now published its case study. A year in the life of Open Access support:…
All that glisters is not gold
Chaired by Sir Bob Burgess this independent review covers the first 16 months of RCUK’s Open Access policy April 2013-July 2014. Although this seems a bit early, the review panel felt it was necessary to gather a…
Quantum Earth and Paperscape: mapping arXiv
Copyright Roberto Salazar & Sebastian Pizarro Above is a visualisation of Quantum Earth, a continent consisting of research articles in the field of quantum mechanics. The idea was originally conceived by Roberto…
Wellcome peer review report
Copyright Wellcome Trust CC BY 2.0 Copyright Research Information Network A Wellcome Trust commissioned report centred around the issue of peer review was published last month. The report, conducted by the Research…
Open Access and content mining
We’ve previously blogged about the British Library Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) that stores theses metadata and, where possible, the full text of digitised theses. BL Labs now wants to explore EThOS…
Share My Thesis competition – update
Last week the British Library Ethos service announced the winner of the Share My Thesis competition. We posted about the competition back in January, see here for more information. The entrants had to first tweet…
5000th repository item – update
This is a quick update on the 5000th item in the repository we highlighted back in February: A phenomenological-enactive theory of the minimal self, by Brett Welch. We sent Brett a copy of Martin Paul Eve’s book Open…