World Wide Web Consortium and International Digital Publishing Forum announce merger plans - May 11, 2016
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) have announced mutual interest in combining their respective organisations to more quickly advance publishing technologies on the Open Web Platform. Tim Berners-Lee, Web Inventor and W3C Director, and… Read More
DOAJ to remove about 3300 journals - May 10, 2016
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will remove approximately 3300 journals for failure to submit a valid reapplication before the communicated deadline. The deadline was extended twice to allow more time for reapplications. This batch removal is another step in DOAJ’s two year long project… Read More
Presentations and discussions at COAR annual meeting 2016 - May 9, 2016
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) conducted its Annual Meeting and General Assembly on April 12-13, 2016 in Vienna/Austria. Through a diverse mix of conference sessions, round-table discussions and open dialogue, the meeting pushed attendees to examine the future of repositories and the challenges and… Read More
CrossRef to enable registration for preprints - May 6, 2016
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, will enable registration for preprints by August 2016. Crossref's original registration policy prevented its members from registering content and assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to 'duplicative works.' The new policy means that preprints will have separate DOIs… Read More
OpenAIRE webinar on call for proposals to fund APC-free Open Access journals and platforms - May 3, 2016
OpenAIRE is hosting a webinar to learn more about the new OpenAIRE call for proposals to fund APC-free Open Access journals and platforms under the alternative funding mechanism of the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot. The webinar will be held on May 12, 2016 at 10:00… Read More
Second profile in ARL series – University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries support digital scholarship - May 3, 2016
To highlight efforts to support digital scholarship and to offer insights into the challenges of such iterative and collaborative work, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is publishing a series of profiles of digital scholarship centers at ARL member institutions. The second profile in this series… Read More
