CLACSO-Latin American Council of Social Sciences, a non-governmental network partners with universities and governments of Latin America and the Caribbean in the promotion and development of strategies and initiatives that provide open access to research results in the region.
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As digital tools get easier to use, many university libraries are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. The rise of library publishing may be considered as a response to authors’ rights and increasing costs.
The Keepers Registry acts as a global monitor on the archiving arrangements for electronic journals. It was developed by EDINA, the national data service centre at the University of Edinburgh, and the ISSN International Centre in Paris.
This post, the first of a series focused on issues around the registry, discusses the institution’s vision of the term ‘preserved’.
IFLA is calling for a focus on increased access to information in the new framework, and is working to highlight the role that information intermediaries, such as libraries, can play in helping achieve the new set of Sustainable Development Goals that all UN Member States will commit to reaching from September 2015.
Europeana Newspapers offers free, open source tools which individual libraries can use to assess refinement quality and metadata standards in relation to their own digital newspaper collections. A dedicated browser with faceted search and full text functionalities has proven popular with researchers selected as a primary target group.
Usus, a new community-led forum for libraries, consortia, publishers and vendors was established in 2014 in order to provide a gathering place for all of these groups to share and discuss usage statistics issues, developments and solutions.
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced its participation in OpenAIRE2020, a funded project to develop and maintain the infrastructure to support the European Commission OA policy. This participation aims to work towards international alignment of repository networks, a key priority for COAR.
UNESCO and SciELO jointly launch SciELO – 15 years of Open Access in three languages. The document provides a detailed account on the origin, context, significance and « raison d’être » of SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online, which is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet.
English version available in epub format.
The World Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has just made available its roadmap: « Future Directions for Repository Interoperability ». This document is the culmination of over a year’s work to identify priority issues for repository interoperability.
Fot the tenth and final Information day organised by partners of the Europeana Newspapers Project, three round tables took place: the contribution of the BnF; technical innovations ; the users’ practices and expectations.
