Canada’s federal granting agencies partner with CARL to improve discovery of Canadian research outputs - October 24, 2019
Canada’s three federal granting agencies have agreed to partner with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) on a pilot project which seeks to use the OpenAIRE service to improve the discoverability of Canadian open access content. The widespread sharing of research articles and data, referred… Read More
Majority of researchers want funding withheld and penalties for lack of data sharing, says new report - October 24, 2019
Figshare, the online digital repository for academic research, has launched its annual report, ‘The State of Open Data 2019,’ to coincide with global celebrations around Open Access Week. The report is the fourth in the series and includes survey results and a collection of articles from… Read More
Atypon unveils collaborative authoring tool, Manuscripts, that speeds publication and lets researchers integrate code and data - October 24, 2019
Researchers continually struggle with authoring tools that are not built for their collaborative, data-driven projects. With Manuscripts, a free, open source web app designed specifically for scientific writing, scholarly authors can now write, collaborate, format their research papers for submission to journals - and include the code and experimental data… Read More
UC Irvine becomes first campus to launch Presidential OA Policy - October 24, 2019
UC Irvine has become the first UC campus to launch the UC Presidential Open Access Policy implementation, enabling UC Irvine Health Science Clinical Professors and Librarians to join their Academic Senate colleagues in using the UC Publication Management System to make their scholarly articles freely available… Read More
Talking about Machine Learning at ConTech 2019 - October 23, 2019
ConTech 2019 will be transforming content through data science, AI and other emerging technologies on December 5th and 6th at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London. Many organisations in ‘mature’ industries are now challenged to change rapidly, to keep pace with the leaders of the consumer internet… Read More
SAGE and UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries announce new open access publishing agreement - October 23, 2019
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced an open access pilot program with the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beginning in 2020, the program will grant UNC-Chapel Hill access to SAGE Journals and provide funding to cover article publishing fees… Read More
