The publishing giant Elsevier became a major player in the institutional repository landscape Wednesday with the acquisition of the private company Bepress. The acquisition is the third such purchase ...

Open Access publishing provides a viable alternative to traditional publishing for authors who wish to make their work freely available around the world. RIT Libraries supports the Open Access ...

This policy pertains to the materials and aims of the Wyoming Data Repository (WDR), the institutional research data repository of the University of Wyoming and Wyoming community colleges, hereafter ...

The Western Michigan University Institutional Repository (IR), also known as ScholarWorks@WMU, is a digital showcase of research, scholarly and creative output of members of the WMU community, and ...

The items in ScholarWorks at WMU can be accessed from anywhere online, extending the creators' work to a global audience. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—ScholarWorks at WMU, Western Michigan University’s ...

Mississippi State University Libraries is announcing the new and improved Scholars Junction (http://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu), MSU's institutional repository. The ...

Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that Appalachian State University has chosen Figshare as its new ...

The institution must have an institutional repository, or participate in a consortial repository. Most schools launch a repository before adopting a policy to fill it, but some do it the other way ...

MINSK, 23 September (BelTA) – Belarusian State University (BSU) Digital Library remains the leader among institutional repositories of Europe and is one of the world's three best institutional ...

This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. In this guide, we present our understanding of good practices for university open-access policies. An effective OA policy ...

The Japanese government is pushing ahead with a plan to make Japan’s publicly funded research output free to read. In June, the science ministry will assign funding to universities to build the ...