Yearly Archives: 2014

Announcing new Open Repository client: Laureate International Universities Network

Laureate_International_Universities_Logo

      Open Repository is delighted to announce an agreement with the Laureate International Universities Network to build and host their institutional repository. Laureate is the largest private international network of degree-granting post-secondary institutions located around the world.  The Laureate network comprises over  800,000 enrolled students within 75 institutions in 30 countries throughout North America, South America,… Read more »

Technology

Building the Open Access Button

OA button map

Ever felt frustrated by not being able to access a piece of research? In this guest post, Chealsye Bowley, Launch Coordinator for Open Access Button tells us how the Button could help and the work they’ve got in store to make it even more effective. In November 2013 we launched the Open Access Button. The Button is… Read more »

Open Access Publishing

Open Repository: Announcing integration with ORCID

ORCID ID logo

We are delighted to announce that Open Repository’s DSpace platform is now integrated with ORCID® via the ORCID API.We have the feature available for viewing on our demo site. Starting today, we are rolling out this feature to a selection of clients who specifically requested the integration, and thereafter to all Open Repository and Open… Read more »

Technology

Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki: A full and flourishing landscape

Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, opening session

We’ve returned home after a fulsome week in Helsinki, attending the Open Repositories 2014 Conference along with approximately five hundred delegates & sponsors. The conference is a leading international event in the Open Access calendar, focusing on post-publication OA: curation, preservation and dissemination of scholarly research, and, data about scholarly research. Open Repository was one… Read more »

Open Access Technology

Free Swag and Other Things not to Miss Out on at ISMB

killbill_GS_shirts

This week a few of us here at BioMed Central are off to Boston for ISCB’s annual ISMB conference and its Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings. First thing’s first: We’ll be giving away cool swag like our new Bruce Lee/Kill Bill inspired GigaScience Open Data tshirts. Our 8GB GigaPanda USB drives will also be making… Read more »

Biology

WHO joins PubMed Central

WHO is now open

An open access world news update   There are many drivers behind the open access movement: to accelerate the pace of scientific research, discovery and innovation; increase the visibility, readership and impact of authors’ works, as well as to enhance interdisciplinary research, to name but a few. All factors point to one ultimate goal, the… Read more »

Open Access Publishing

EASE-ing into an Editors’ conference in Split

Folk dancing at the Welcome Reception at Mestrovic Gallery

I recently attended the 12th European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Conference in Split, Croatia. The meeting was based at the University of Split School of Medicine and included a reception in the beautiful Mestrovic Gallery and a dinner with delightful Croatian dishes to try, all of which provided a relaxing setting to meet conference… Read more »

Publishing