Yellowstone national park, © Quan Yuan/Getty Images In 2013, a memo from John Holdren, director for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House, was sent to all heads of executive departments…
You might not necessarily associate China with Open Access, but it has made rapid progress towards making more of its research publications open. Two powerful public agencies are instigating Open Access into Chinese…
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…
© Copyright 2014 – Canadian Science Publishing. “[O]pen access is a worldwide phenomenon. However, the urgency of implementation has greater impetus in some nations because of strong OA mandates from large, centralised…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…