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Strengthening the Open Science Ecosystem Through Preprints
22 January 2020"When rapid and open sharing occurs, it is usually in venues (like scientific conferences or within networks of collaborators) accessible only to researchers from well-resourced …
arXiv Annual Update, January 2020 | arXiv e-print repository
22 January 2020"Our next-generation arXiv (arXiv-NG) initiative to improve the service’s core infrastructure by incremental and modular renewal of the existing arXiv system continues to progress. This includes significant …
5 Scholarly Publishing Trends to Watch in 2020
20 January 2020"The vision for a predominantly open access (OA) publishing landscape has shifted from a possibility to a probability in the opinions of many. A 2017 Springer …
Devolved Management of OER in Irish Higher Education? — Sharing and learning Phil Barker's work
19 January 2020I sometimes get asked for asked for advice by people who are thinking of setting up national infrastructure for OER based on institutional open access …
Research Collection: statistics 2019 / News / Open access at ETH Zurich
18 January 2020ETH Zurich published the first infographic on the use of the Research Collection in April 2019. This year’s first infographic presents the annual review for …
Open Data Maturity Report 2019
18 January 2020Last year on 2 December, the European Data Portal (EDP) published its fifth annual report measuring the level of open data maturity across Europe. The Open Data Maturity …
Federal Register :: Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research
18 January 2020"The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is seeking public comments on a draft set of desirable characteristics of data repositories used to …
The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives
17 January 2020Abstract: The Archives Unleashed project aims to improve scholarly access to web archives through a multi-pronged strategy involving tool creation, process modeling, and community building …
What is a Sustainable Path to Open Access? | SIGPLAN Blog
17 January 2020"The ACM OPEN plan, on the other hand, falls squarely in the second approach: mutualising costs. I think it is potentially viable, and virtuous. I say potentially because, …
Infrastructure and Capacity Building
17 January 2020Crossposted from Platypus. I was delighted this week to be notified that the Humanities Commons team has received an Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge grant …
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