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Saturday, December 12, 2015
SPARC/ACRL Forum: Complying with Emerging Funder Public Access Policies
Open Access · Open DataComplying with Emerging Funder Public Access Policies: How Libraries Can Make It All Work Over the past few years, there has been a proliferation of high-profile funders announcing policies requiring greater access to research articles and data. From the White House to the Canadian Tri-Agency ...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015
Recap: SPARC Meeting on Openness in Research & Education
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThe 2016 SPARC MORE Conference brought together a diverse array of perspectives to work on every aspect of creating a system that serves scholarship, disseminates knowledge, and feeds the public good. Speakers included representatives from a preeminent private foundation, university presidents, ...
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Friday, December 4, 2015
SPARC Innovator Award
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThe SPARC Innovator Award is an initiative that recognizes an individual, institution, or group that exemplifies SPARC principles by working to challenge the status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers, libraries, universities, and the public.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Department of Transportation Releases Comprehensive New Public Access Plan; NSF Announces Arrangement with CHORUS
Open AccessAs we near the end of 2015, there has been a flurry of activity coming from U.S. federal agencies in the Public Access policy arena. Late last week, the Department of Transportation (DOT) released its plan for ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from its funded research, ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Openness as a Career Asset: Erin McKiernan
Open Access · Open Data
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
“The Right to Read is the Right to Mine…”
Open Access · Open Data“The Right to Read is the Right to Mine…” Those words are not only the tagline for an innovative text and data mining project called ContentMine, but are also a crucial component of the definition of Open Access. The facts contained in scholarly articles are what make them so useful and ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Alternative Publishing Models to Support Open Access
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Building a Career on an Open Foundation: Meredith Niles
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