Open Access Week events focus on increasing impact of research - October 22, 2013
Hundreds of events will take place across the globe to highlight the power of Open Access to increase the impact of scientific and scholarly research during the sixth annual Open Access Week, October 21 - 27, 2013. Open Access – the free, immediate, online access to… Read More
University of California Libraries awarded Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to continue development of Western Regional Storage Trust - October 22, 2013
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of California Libraries a three-year grant to continue development of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a distributed shared print repository program for retrospective journal archives. More than 100 libraries participate in the trust, including libraries from… Read More
BioMed Central announces various events to mark 6th year of Open Access Week - October 21, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced various events to mark the 6th year of Open Access Week, which begins today (October 21). Open Access Week is a global event to increase awareness of the benefits of open access publishing, and give people the opportunity to… Read More
NISO publishes Data Curation themed issue of Information Standards quarterly in Open Access - October 18, 2013
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of the Fall 2013 issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) with a special theme of Data Curation. Interest in the topic of data curation has increased greatly as many governments and funding organisations have mandated that publicly… Read More
ARL, Coalition express support for Surveillance Transparency Legislation - October 15, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), together with 71 other privacy and civil liberties groups, sent a letter to the US Senate and House Judiciary Committees, calling on Congress to provide greater transparency around national security – related requests by the US… Read More
Around 276,000 visitors attend Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 - October 14, 2013
The Frankfurt Book Fair closed on October 13 with around 7,300 exhibitors in total, from over 100 countries. Altogether 275,342 visitors attended the Fair (October 9 – 13), of which 142,921 were present during the trade visitors' days. Apart from the Brazilian authors calling for… Read More
