Bibliometrics (the measurement of scholarly citation) has long been dominated by the Science Citation Index. Created by Eugene Garfield in the 1960s, the SCI is now made available online as Web of Science by Thomson Scientific. In the last few years however two new services, Scopus and Google Scholar, have created competition for Web of Science, providing an alternative means… Read more »
I was very excited to see that Information World Review has published an article about Open Repository (Issue 242, January 2008), but at the same time very disappointed to find some inaccuracies in it. Unfortunately, the article was a little confusing, calling DSpace an ‘Internet Content Distributor’ and suggesting that we have only recently started to incorporate aspects of DSpace into Open Repository… Read more »
One of the great things about the internet in general, and open access research in particular, is how accessible the frontiers of human knowledge have become. The website edge.org demonstrates this with a thought-provoking set of 165 short essays from leading neuroscientists, physicists, technologists, philosophers and other thinkers, in response to the following question: When… Read more »
Many open access advocates will already have heard that NIH’s Public Access Policy, until now voluntary, is set to become mandatory following President Bush’s approval on Dec 26th 2007 of the latest NIH appropriations bill, which includes the following wording: "The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by… Read more »
In the wider world, it’s worth noting that on Boxing day, or the day after Christmas, as the Americans call it, research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) was mandated by law to be made open access within 12 months of publication. The full story is up on the SPARC newsletter, along… Read more »
So we’re only a few days into 2008 and already stuck in to the next batch of improvements for Open Repository. Firstly, we’ve upgraded the browse module and after some time trials, we estimate the browse feature is now running about three times faster than before, especially when pulling large lists, such as viewing 100… Read more »