Open access: four ways it could enhance academic freedom
The power of funding alone should not be enough to override academic freedom, argues Curt Rice, nor does open access automatically skew the world of scholarship. Are politicians stealing our academic...
View ArticleUniversity of Iowa Libraries and Provost Office Launches Open Access...
[Last] week, the Office of the Provost and UI Libraries established a $50,000 fund to cover researchers’ publication fees for open access journals, which can be as much as $3,000. Library officials...
View ArticleResearching Into Open Access
As part of IT Services’ contribution to Open Access Oxford, we have been exploring the perspectives on OA held by different stakeholders, both through interviews with University staff (of which more in...
View ArticleAustralasian Research Management Society Events 2013
ARC/NHMRC Research Administrators’ Seminar in association with ARMS The ARC and NHMRC, in association with ARMS, will again be conducting a Research Administrators’ Seminar in November 2013. The...
View ArticleFree-for-all – Open-access scientific publishing is gaining ground
At the beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the government transmits taxpayers’ money to academic researchers, changed the rules on how the results of studies it pays for...
View ArticleInvitation: Open Access and Research Conference 2013
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is hosting the Open Access and Research Conference 2013, in Brisbane from 31 October to 1 November. The adoption of national and institutional open access...
View Article“Walking in quicksand keeping up with copyright agreements”
As any repository manager will tell you, one of the biggest headaches for providing open access to research materials is complying with publisher agreements. Most publishers will allow some form of an...
View ArticleCitation Index
A citation index is an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily discern which later documents cite which earlier documents. The first citation indices were legal citators...
View ArticleACU now subscribes to Book Citation Index in Web of Knowledge
Books traditionally have not been covered in database citation-tracking tools such as Web of Science and Scopus but that is starting to change. In the last two years Thomson Reuters, producers of Web...
View ArticleA mandate for Open Access: The University of Liège (ULg) and ULg Library
The University of Liège has an exemplary Open Access mandate. It inspired a unique collaboration among researchers, university management and library. In this guest post, François Renaville, systems...
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