John Wiley and Sons announced that its 12,200 online books would be made available to developing countries through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA , ARDI and OARE.The announcement came with a commitment to further add more than 100 new books published every month. This move is set to benefit research ...

Databib is an online tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data. Research data has been growing lately and requires curation, collection, management, access and long-term preservation.The Databib facilities that repository managers register and describe their repositories on the platform so that users can locate ...

The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardised bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how “open” an item is. Currently, there is no standardised bibliographic metadata that provide information on whether ...