PREAMBLE The faculty, students and staff of Stony Brook University are committed to sharing our research, scholarship and creative work as widely as possible. Moreover, by adopting this policy and practice our university seeks to a) meet federal requirements that…
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Open Access Policy FAQ
What is an Open Access Policy? An open access policy provides a basis for Stony Brook University to preserve the work of its scholars in its online repository, Academic Commons, (or other open access archives) and to provide access to…
Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication
Open Access Policy FAQ
What is an Open Access Policy? An open access policy provides a basis for Stony Brook University to preserve the work of its scholars in its online repository, Academic Commons, (or other open access archives) and to provide access to…
Posted in Open Access
SBU Open Access Research: High impact and on the rise
SBU Research Data SBU Open Access Publishing Activity 87,621 articles published by SBU scholars and researchers, 1966 – 2015 1602, or ~2% of those articles are open access 27,628 articles published by SBU scholars and researchers, 2006 – 2015 6% of…
Open Access Symposium 2016
The Center for Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University Libraries presents Open Access, Global Access and Research Futures, the Open Access Symposium 2016. When: Tuesday, October 25 Where: Wang Center, Stony Brook University Registration is free and open! Open Access, Global…
Predatory Journals Under Prosecution
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…
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FLEXspace Awards New Learning Spaces at SBU Libraries
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…
Academic Commons: Your Global Audience Is Here
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…
JULIET & RoMEO: Find Open Access Permissions, Mandates
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…
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Kudos: Increase Your Research Impact and Citations
Although Open Access leverages the availability of your research to a broad spectrum of audiences, it does not guarantee the visibility of your work due to the abundance of literature available online. To overcome this setback you can use Kudos as a toolkit…
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