(NPG), Nature Publishing Group (2015): Author Insights 2015 survey. figshare.http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425362 Each year Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan conduct an Author Insights Survey, the…
Fresh from the excitement of Repository Fringe 2015 the Jisc Pathfinder Lessons in Open Access Compliance (LOCH) partners and representatives from HEIs all over the UK met in Edinburgh on 5th August to learn from the…
Last month the University of St Andrews joined the Open Library of the Humanities – an open access mega-journal and book publisher (see previous post on OLH here). Dr. Martin Paul Eve, a founder and director of OLH,…
In recent years it has become increasingly important for researchers to publish the data underlying research. A search of Sherpa/Juliet (a search engine that compiles funder mandates and policies relating to open…
The emerging role of institutional CRIS in facilitating Open Scholarship, was recognised by the LIBER Conference Programme Committee with the Innovation Award given to the 3 most innovative and relevant papers…
Stanford University has announced a new and ambitious project to establish the world’s largest collaborative open access repository for data on autism. The project is called The Hartwell Research Technology Initiative,…
Estonia is very advanced in e-government infrastructure compared to the UK. You can’t fail to be impressed by its e-Resident initiative. In 2007 it introduced a Mobile-ID for mobile phones that permits secure…
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…
Despite its small size the Netherlands is punching above its weight in Open Access practice and advocacy, driven by a strong sense of social justice. As early as 2009 The National Library of the Netherlands was…
©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…