Symposium Home | Program | Speakers | Getting Here | SUNY OA Webinars Open Access, Global Access, and Research Futures features visionary ideas from inspirational speakers. The symposium explores influential scholarly communication initiatives, including digital humanities, open educational resources (OER), open science and data visualization. The symposium
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against the online publisher of science journals, OMICS Group, Inc. For details on how to evaluate and identify predatory publishers and journals, see the Center for Scholarly Communication page ‘How Do You Know A Journal
The new North and Central Reading Rooms at Stony Brook University Libraries were recently honored with an award from FLEXspace, an open access repository featuring images and data of learning spaces. FLEXspace and Herman Miller Education are sponsoring my travel and attendance to represent the library at the Designing Library
The Academic Commons is an open access scholarly repository and publishing platform for the Stony Brook University community. Works in Academic Commons are: *freely accessible online *easily discoverable via search engines *regularly backed up *assigned a permanent URL so they can always be found What Academic Commons Means For You
About Academic Commons How to Add Documents to Academic Commons Collections Author Agreements and Copyright Withdrawing Content Related Readings/Links Contacts Notes 1. About Academic Commons What is Academic Commons? Academic Commons is the research, scholarly publications and academic creative works component of University Libraries Center for Scholarly Communication, an open access digital
SHERPA is a scholarly communication partnership based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham. SHERPA offers a number of web services, including JULIET and RoMEO. JULIET JULIET is a search tool for discovering research funders’ mandates for public access and open access. Features include: Quick summary of different funders’ mandates
In April 2013, Elsevier acquired Mendeley which is an academic website that serves as a platform for researchers to work collaboratively on research projects, manage references and share their work. Researchers also can use Mendeley in storing their research papers, show case their research with their colleagues and other scientists
In a previous post, we presented Altmetric as an innovative method of displaying research impact on the social media by tracing mentions on Facebook, twitter, blogs and downloads. Now, Altmetric is used to measure the impact of more than 8000 academic journals and Altmetric has been recently expanding their scholarly horizon.
Jennifer Lyon (Biomedical & Translational Research Librarian) and Clara Tran (Science Librarian) presented “Faculty Use of Author Identifiers and Researcher Networking Tools” at the METRO Science Librarians Research Forum on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The research forum provided an excellent venue for discussion and exchange of STM project ideas and
Digital Humanities Open Mic featured the presentations: “The John Milton Digital Library” by Dana Haugh, Web Services Librarian. “Latino Long Island: A Cultural and Social Map” by Adrián Pérez Melgosa, Associate Professor Hispanic Languages and Literature; Sung-Gheel (Gil) Jang, Lecturer, Sustainability Studies Director of the Geospatial Center; Natalia Chamorro, Graduate Student Hispanic Languages and Literature; and José (Beni)
