The Open Access (OA) Map , launched today during the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), displays the locations of all types of OA-related initiatives, including funding policies, government documents, university mandates and so on. Much of this information already exists but it is scattered across domains. The Map ...

As time approaches for the 2011 EFITA/VOA3R Workshop more comments are welcome on our blog pages! Our intention is to have vivid interactions before the workshop, to open the floor for discussions during the workshop. So far, we have collected five papers: European Competence development: Support of European integration ...

DataCite is a consortium of national-scale libraries and research organizations committed to increasing access to research data on the internet. Recently DataCite, BioMed Central and the Digtal Curation Centre has announced an international list of repositories for research data: http://datacite.org/repolist. Some of the datasets that can be ...

The CIARD Virtual Fair is a facility where people and organizations can share and learn about ways to make their information and knowledge open and accessible.  Organizations which provide products and services that enable information to be accessible present themselves to potential users who can see how these relate to ...

Extracted from the CrossRef Quaterly (June Issue) The CrossRef Board of Directors has approved a change to the CrossRef DOI display guidelines. Effective immediately, CrossRef Member Publishers and Affiliates are encouraged to use the URL form http://dx.doi.org/doi wherever a CrossRef DOI appears online, whether on a ...