Publisher open access (OA), also known as gold OA, for research papers is easy to understand: the final published version of a journal article is available to anyone with an internet connection, with ...

This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

The Western Michigan University Institutional Repository (IR), also known as ScholarWorks@WMU, is a digital showcase of research, scholarly and creative output of members of the WMU community, and ...

The institution must have an institutional repository, or participate in a consortial repository. Most schools launch a repository before adopting a policy to fill it, but some do it the other way ...

Journal subscriptions are dropping for the majority of law school law journals. This drop could be attributed to a number of factors for subscribers. Many subscribers share the common concerns of ...

Mississippi State University Libraries is announcing the new and improved Scholars Junction (http://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu), MSU's institutional repository. The ...

Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that Appalachian State University has chosen Figshare as its new ...