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New quality indicators for young (open access) journals discussed

01/10/2012

On October 22 and 23 research funders, editors-in-chief of prestigious academic journals, and publishers will come togetherin Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to discuss and test New quality indicators for young (open access) journals.This high level expert colloquium will take place during Open Access Week 2012 . Initiative to establish indicators of quality For young , ...

Fedora Repository Futures: Towards an Evolutionary Development Roadmap

27/09/2012

FedoraCommons is set for a number of improvements and developments in the near future. This comes as an expression of commitment by the Fedora community members to refresh the product's vision and to produce an evolutionary short and mid-term roadmap for FedoraCommons. FedoraCommons stakeholders also established a common ground on ...

Open-access deal for particle physics

26/09/2012

"After six years of negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics articles — about 7,000 publications last year — are made immediately free on journal websites. Upfront payments from libraries will fund the access." Source: Nature, 489, 486 (27 September 2012)  

Open Access & Agricultural Repositories: A workshop on VOA3R & agINFRA

25/09/2012

   The workshop "Open Access & Agricultural Repositories" will take place in Limassol, Cyprus on October 18, 2012. The event is organized with the support of the European Committee and the ICT-PSP Program, under the auspices of the Agricultural Research Institute of Cyprus (ARI), the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET), the European funded project ...

New Open Access Recommendations

25/09/2012

Leaders of the Open Access movement have developed new Open Access Recommendations with the scope of making research publicly available to everyone—free of charge and without most copyright and licensing restrictions— in order to accelerate scientific research efforts and allow authors to reach a larger number of readers.   Open ...