SCOAP3 enters second year of operation, celebrates publication of first 5,000 articles - March 4, 2015
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) started its second year of operation and celebrates the publication of the first 5,000 articles. More than 18,000 scientists from 86 countries have benefited from this Open Access initiative, publishing articles at no direct costs.… Read More
Canadian funding agencies release coordinated public access policy - March 2, 2015
Three largest funding agencies in Canada have released a coordinated policy requiring researchers to provide access to articles resulting from their funded research. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Read More
COAR announces participation in Europe’s OpenAIRE2020 - February 27, 2015
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced its participation in the OpenAIRE2020, to work towards international alignment of repository networks, a key priority for COAR. COAR will lead the work package, 'International Alignment', enabling to further support work already underway at COAR to facilitate… Read More
Data on Web Best Practices Working Group publishes First Public Working Draft of Data on the Web Best Practices - February 26, 2015
The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Data on the Web Best Practices, to encourage and enable the continued expansion of the Web as a medium for the exchange of data. Data should be discoverable… Read More
Registrations now open for COAR-SPARC Conference 2015 - February 26, 2015
Registration is now open for the COAR-SPARC Conference 2015, "Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities, Opening Scholarship," to be held in Porto, Portugal, April 15–16. Co-hosted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories… Read More
NFAIS selects Robert J. Massie as Honorary Fellow at 2015 Annual Conference - February 25, 2015
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), the nation's leading membership association for the information services industry, announced that Robert J. Massie, former president of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), was designated an NFAIS Honorary Fellow at the NFAIS 2015 Annual Conference, February 22-24. NFAIS… Read More
