News Archive
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January is OpenAIRE compliance month
| Iryna Kuchma
Interested in learning more about making your repository compliant with the OpenAIRE infrastructure to support and monitor the implementation of the FP7 Open Access pilot?
Want to help your faculty members comply with the Open Access requirements of the European Commission (EC)?
Want to add EC project data to your repository records and use OpenAI…
Danish Council for Independent Research
| Mikael Karstensen Elbæk
Major Danish funder of research - the Danish Council for Independent Research - signs the Berlin Decleration.
Chairman of the Independent Research Jens Christian Djurhuus says:
- By signing the Berlin Declaration, we mark the Council's commitment to strengthen the sharing of scientific knowledge. Open Access is a crucial instrument in this work to…
How to make your repository OpenAIRE compliant: the sessions recordings
| Iryna Kuchma
For those of you who missed the live sessions, you can view the recording of the sessions and download the slides:
How to make your repository OpenAIRE compliant: DSpace repository platform
View the recording (Monday session or Tuesday session)
Download the slides
EPrints repository platform
View the recording (Monday session or Tuesday sessio…
Elsevier’s practices opposing open access
| Administrator
OpenAIRE joins forces with COAR and the rest of the research community in condemning Elsevier for its recent business practices and lobbying that undermine policies and activities promoting open access to scholarly literature.
The full letter can be found here: COAR open letter to Elsevier.
From the COAR website:
"With this letter", says Norbert L…
RCUK drafts new Open Access policy
| MKE
RCUK (UK's Research Councils) have proposed a new revised Open Access policy.
From the new policy:
"The draft policy defines what the Research Councils mean by Open Access and how it may be achieved. It states the specific revised policy measures the Research Councils intend to adopt, and explains how these differ from current policies. The Resear…
Open Infrastructures for Open Science
| Administrator
H2020 Consultation workshop
The development of e-Infrastructures for e-Science is part of the Digital Agenda flagship initiative, envisioned as means to connect researchers, instruments, data and computation resources throughout Europe. These efforts are expected to create a seamless and open knowledge territory or "Digital Europea…
MedOANet – towards coordinated Open Access policies in Mediterranean Europe
| Najla Rettberg
National and regional coordination of Open Access strategies, policies and structures in six Mediterranean countries – Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Turkey – is the main goal of MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network), a two-year project funded under the Science in Society Programme of the EC 7th Framework Programme.
It will do…
May 2012 is the OpenAIRE Compliance Month for journals
| Marnix van Berchum
Are you involved in a journal, which publishes EC funded research? Does your journal want to comply with the EC policies on Open Access?
May 2012 is the OpenAIRE Compliance Month for journals, in which we will give special attention to the steps required for journals to become compliant with the OpenAIRE infrastructure, and to support and facilita…
How to make your journal OpenAIRE compliant: the sessions recordings
| Iryna Kuchma
Are you involved in a journal, which publishes EC funded research? Does your journal want to comply with the EC policies on Open Access? For those of you who missed the live sessions, you can view the recording of the sessions and download the slides:
View the recording (Monday session or Tuesday session)
Download the slides
May 2012 is the Op…
OpenAIRE featured in the Cordis Technology Marketplace
| Administrator
Open Access and OpenAIRE are discussed in a recent Cordis article: Open access: EU project results go public...
#OAMonday – Call for Petition
| Najla Rettberg
#OAMonday – Calling for Action
US researchers are hotly pursuing the White House, petitioning President Obama requiring all research to be made available via Open Access. You can sign the petition here (open to non-US citizens). 25,000 signatures needed for White House to respond!
Organised by a range of Open Access proponents, including Cameron N…
Large-scale deposit in repositories increases access and use
| Birgit Schmidt
OpenAIRE, a European initiative co-funded by the European Commission (EC), welcomes the results of the PEER project, presented on the 29 May in Brussels. Publishers, research libraries and research organisations effectively collaborated in building a controlled research environment to study the effects of green open access. Usage research in this…
