Research & Collections

December 4, 2015

A social networking site is not an open access repository

Posted On: December 4, 2015 “What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?” “I put my papers in ResearchGate, is that enough for the open access policy? From …

November 6, 2015

Lingua – editors and editorial board resign

Posted On: November 6, 2015 All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s policies …

October 19, 2015

Open Access Without Tears

Posted On: October 19, 2015 Is there a way to do good, respected research and still make it available to anyone in the world who wants to read it? Actually, …

October 15, 2015

APS Begins Release of Public Access Papers

Posted On: October 15, 2015 American Physical Society News: August 3 2015 As the clamor for open access to scientific research has intensified in recent years, a group of scientific …

October 9, 2015

October 27-28: Software Carpentry Workshop

Join the UC San Diego Library’s  Research & Reference Advisory Services (Data Services) and the Research Data Curation programs for a two-day, intensive Software Carpentry workshop. Software Carpentry’s mission is …

September 15, 2015

Peer Review Week Sept 28 – Oct 2

Posted On: September 15, 2015 “Peer review is a subject that – despite the fact that most researchers continue to trust it – divides opinion in the wider scholarly community. …