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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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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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Monday, September 21, 2015
How digital ‘tree of life’ embodies the potential of open science
Open Access · Open DataScientists have developed a comprehensive, open map of the relationships among all known life. The project illustrates how open-science principles and digital technology can bring together information to expand understanding of a complex subject.
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Senate panel passes bill to give public access to more research
Open Access · Open DataA Senate panel on Wednesday passed legislation to require certain federally funded research to be open to the public.
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