Open Processes Build Community
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) continues to provide support in advocating open source and open access by providing additional financial support to Koha, the world’s first full-featured, […]
Webinar on Predatory Open Access
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is once again offering educational opportunities through their “Lunch and Learn” webinar series. The next one is […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Scientific journal publishers have long defended their convictions that subscriptions are necessary to finance their operations. However, efforts to extend free access to scientific […]