Sun 30 Aug, 2009
Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day to accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results.
More about Open Access Week: http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Sun 30 Aug, 2009
The National Institutes of Health recently issued a new notice related to the NIH Public Access Policy, Clarification on the Use of an NIHMSID to Indicate Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-09-136). (more…)
Wed 26 Aug, 2009
Scholarly Communication refers to the system through which research and scholarly works are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. It is a shared system of research and scholarship, and stakeholders in the system include researchers, scholarly societies, publishers, university administrators, funding agencies, and libraries. The system is undergoing profound changes, with lasting impact on how the results of research and scholarship are shared.
Scholarly communication issues are complex, and it is difficult to keep up with even the issues most relevant to us in our roles as researchers and instructors. Therefore, Texas A&M Univerity Libraries (specifically, Digital Services and Scholarly Communication) have started this blog to highlight scholarly communication news of particular interest to the Texas A&M research community