open source

Libraries, Open Source, and eBooks – Oh My!

By |September 7th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Libraries, Open Source, and eBooks – Oh My!

An open source server-software developer is working on a project at the New York Public Library (NYPL) that is intended to liberate every part […]

Open Access: Pro and Con

By |August 23rd, 2016|News|Comments Off on Open Access: Pro and Con

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Pay It Forward project set out to determine the potential financial implications of a move to an all-open […]

New Ways to Collaborate

By |August 2nd, 2016|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on New Ways to Collaborate

Kristen Ratan and Adam Hyde have launched the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. This […]

Open is Not Free

By |July 20th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Open is Not Free

The proponents of open access argue that the taxpayers have paid the invoice and therefore deserve the product. They are referring to the scientific research […]

Save the Dates

By |June 10th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Save the Dates

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering some educational and networking opportunities this summer, so before you are all booked up take […]

Digging Deeper into Open Data

By |May 31st, 2016|News|Comments Off on Digging Deeper into Open Data

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a two-part virtual workshop on Thursday, June 16 and Monday, June 20, 2016. This virtual workshop […]

EBSCO and A New Open Source Project

By |May 2nd, 2016|News|Comments Off on EBSCO and A New Open Source Project

A new initiative is underway to create open-source software for academic libraries. The project is in collaboration with Index Data and Kauli OLE, and […]

Call for Science Journals to be More Accessible

By |April 11th, 2016|News, reference, search|Comments Off on Call for Science Journals to be More Accessible

Scientific journal publishers have long defended their convictions that subscriptions are necessary to finance their operations. However, efforts to extend free access to scientific […]

Being Open About It

By |March 15th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Being Open About It

CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) recently partnered with a number of federal agencies to help them comply with the […]