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A Selected Comparison of Music Librarians’ and Musicologists’ Self-Archiving Practices
17 October 2019Abstract: The importance of open access (OA) advocacy is well-documented in the literature of academic librarianship, but previous research shows that librarians’ OA behaviors are less conclusive. …
First transformative agreement for Australia and New Zealand
17 October 2019Smitha Radhakrishnan on Open Access - YouTube
17 October 2019A short video by Smitha Radhakrishnan on a solution to the difficulty of finding the right version of a paper to deposit in an OA repository. …
SASBDB: Towards automatically curated and validated repository for biological scattering data - Kikhney - - Protein Science - Wiley Online Library
14 October 2019Abstract: Small‐angle scattering (SAS) of X‐rays and neutrons is a fundamental tool to study the nanostructural properties, and in particular, biological macromolecules in solution. In structural …
Open Access in Finnland: Wie aus einem Open Repository eine Open-Publishing-Plattform mit Full-Service wird (Open Access in Finland: How an Open Repository becomes a Full Service Open Publishing Platform)
14 October 2019Universities across Europe are tackling the same open science challenges with constantly diminishing resources. The need for improved open publishing services is obvious if the …
Open Access Week 2019 | Research Data Management Program
12 October 2019"International Open Access Week is an opportunity to take action in making openness the default for research—to raise the visibility of scholarship, accelerate research. At …
Publication and Dissemination of Research: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
11 October 2019"Consistent with international expectations that research outputs are openly available, institutions should support researchers to ensure their research outputs are openly accessible in an institutional …
The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership | bioRxiv
9 October 2019Understanding the growth of open access (OA) is important for deciding funder policy, subscription allocation, and infrastructure planning. This study analyses the number of papers …
Discovery and scholarly communication aspects of preprints
9 October 2019"The purpose of preprints is to increase the speed at which research results are disseminated. They are not a way to bypass peer review—they bypass …
COAR and cOAlition S Supporting Repositories to Adhere to Plan S | Plan S
8 October 2019"COAR and cOAlition S share a common aim to accelerate the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scholarly publications and COAR supports the vision …
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