Florida State University Faculty Senate passes university wide open access policy - February 23, 2016
The Florida State University Faculty Senate, in consultation with its Library Committee and staff of the FSU Libraries, voted unanimously this week to adopt a university-wide Open Access (OA) policy. FSU joins a growing list of major universities with similar policies designed to create a safe… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2014 Proceedings now available online - February 22, 2016
The Proceedings of the 2014 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment are now available on the conference website. The fifth biennial Library Assessment Conference, held in Seattle, Washington, brought together 600 participants from 47 US states, 8 Canadian provinces, and 14 countries outside… Read More
DuraSpace Hot Topics Community Webinar Series to explore efforts to link SHARE and VIVO - February 19, 2016
The DuraSpace Hot Topics Community Webinar Series is offering three free webinars exploring the effort to link SHARE and VIVO together to provide a more complete picture of current scholarship and its impact. As scholarship continues to become more collaborative and… Read More
The London Book Fair announces winners of the Trailblazer Awards - February 18, 2016
The winners of the Trailblazer Awards were revealed at an event hosted by The London Book Fair and in partnership with the Society of Young Publishers and BookBrunch. The Trailblazer Awards invited members of the publishing industry to nominate themselves and others to find young publishers… Read More
Registration now open for Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop - February 18, 2016
General registration is now open for 'Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop,' to be held May 17–18, 2016, in Arlington, Virginia. An increasing number of institutions are planning programs and spaces they call digital scholarship centers, scholars' labs, research commons, or similar names.… Read More
SAGE journal Research & Politics and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy receive Carnegie grant to support research - February 16, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that Research & Politics, a peer reviewed, gold open-access journal, will be supported for two years through the prestigious Carnegie grant, enabling the journal to continue to waive open access Article Processing Charges (APCs). Georgetown University's Institute for the… Read More
