Archive for October, 2008

“Voices of Open Access” Videos from the Public Library of Science and SPARC

San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC A new video series presents six unique perspectives on the importance of Open Access to research across the higher education community and beyond. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the organizers of the first Open Access Day with Students for […]

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Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone

Ithaca, NY Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008. Half a million e-print postings–research articles published online– now reside in arXiv, which is free and available to the public.
arXiv is the primary daily information source for hundreds of thousands of researchers […]

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