Standards needed for publishing datasets
OECD is urging the industry to adopt standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking to help overcome current problems with discovering and citing data
OECD is urging the industry to adopt standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking to help overcome current problems with discovering and citing data
The UK's Research Information Network and Universities UK have provided advice on paying open-access publication charges
Middlesex University in the UK has received funding to develop a medical image repository
The faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is adopting an open-access repository policy
President Obama has signed into law an act that makes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy permanent
The 2009 IPI Award will be given to Peter Norton. The announcement was made at the International Patent Information Conference and Exposition, IPI-ConfEx, held in Venice-Mestre in March
Microsoft and Creative Commons have announced an ontology add-on for Word 2007
The faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA has voted to make all faculty members' scholarly articles publically available online at no charge.
A new campaign is encouraging Canadian authors to use their campus digital repository to increase the use and impact of their research outputs
SPARC is asking all supporters of public access to oppose the reintroduction of the 'Fair Copyright in Research Works Act' in the USA.