'EuropeanaConnect' opens door to Europe's sound collections
Thirty partners from fourteen EU member states team up to launch a project that will provide 100 000 audio files to cultural website, Europeana.eu
Thirty partners from fourteen EU member states team up to launch a project that will provide 100 000 audio files to cultural website, Europeana.eu
A new program from Google Books allows rightsholders to make their Creative Commons-licensed books available for the public to download, use, remix and share
In less than six months after its launch, research methods network, 'Methodspace', has more than 2000 members
The InChI Trust is launching this week with the aim of expanding and developing the InChI open-source chemical structure representation algorithm
Although many projects in the not-for-profit sector attempt to generate some revenue through subscription, pay-per-view and a range of licensing arrangements, their income still depends heavily on support from the institutions that host them
There has been a dramatic rise in research output by scientists in the developing world since 2002, according to the partners of Research4Life
The Netherlands' SURFdirect and Creative Commons Netherlands recommend the most liberal Creative Commons licence for reuse of material in the context of education and research
There has been an important shift in how students interact with and shape the world of scholarly communication with the release of a statement calling for broader access to scholarly knowledge, writes Nick Shockey
The high-energy physics open-access consortium, SCOAP3, has added Finland to its list of member countries
Student associations in the USA are calling on universities, research funders, and researchers to support open access to research