Digital Commons

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Elsevier Acquisition Highlights the Need for Community-based Scholarly Communication Infrastructure

Heather Joseph and Kathleen Shearer | SPARC | September 6, 2017

Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform. The acquisition is especially troubling for the hundreds of institutions that use Digital Commons to support their open access repositories. These institutions now find their repository services owned and managed by Elsevier, a company well known for its obstruction of open access and repositories...

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How Helsinki Became The Most Successful Open-Data City In The World

Olli Sulopuisto | The Atlantic Cities | April 29, 2014

...Helsinki Region Infoshare publishes all of its data in formats that make it easy for software developers, researchers, journalists and others to analyze, combine or turn into web-based or mobile applications that citizens may find useful. In four years of operation, the project has produced more than 1,000 "machine-readable" data sources such as a map of traffic noise levels, real-time locations of snow plows, and a database of corporate taxes...

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Library Celebrates Open Access [Utah State University]

Steve Kent | The Utah Statesman | October 23, 2012

This week, librarians at USU are celebrating a trend which is changing the way scientists and researchers spread their findings. Read More »

Open Access Benefits Students [North Georgia College and State University]

Amy Bailey | The Saint | October 25, 2012

In honor of International Open Access Week, the Library and Technology Center held a conference on open access initiatives at NGCSU. Read More »

Utah State University Adopts Open Access Policy

Press Release | Utah State University | June 7, 2012

Utah State University has joined an emerging national trend and the ranks of a growing number of the country’s universities in adopting an official “Open Access” policy. USU’s University Libraries headed the effort.

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