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…
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University Libraries Joins Biomed Central
University Libraries has become a Supporting Member of Biomed Central, the Open Access biomedical open access publisher. What are the benefits of Supporter Membership? All Supporter Member researchers can take advantage of a 15% discount on the article-processing charge when…
Open Access Resources
University Libraries offers access to a growing collection of Open Access research databases and online collections. Browse Open Access Resources. To learn more about Open Access, recommend a resource, or discuss scholarly publishing at SBU, contact Darren Chase, Scholarly Communication…
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Public Access to NSF-funded research
Of interest to Stony Brook University researchers, the National Science Foundation (NSF or Foundation) has developed a plan outlining a framework for activities to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data resulting from research the foundation funds.…
ArXiv.org: Open Access
ArXiv.org is an open access scholarly publishing platform. It includes 1,021,025 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. ArXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. ArXiv is funded by…
Open SUNY Textbooks
It’s Open Education Week, and a time to consider and advocate for the resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide. The Open SUNY Textbook initiative is a model example…
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Nature promotes read-only sharing of articles
Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded. All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can…
NARA Launches Founders Online
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) currently indexes over 1.6 million freely accessible electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. The OATD project is led by…
Open Access Petition
The Obama administration is currently considering which policy priorities they will act on before the 2012 election season swings into high gear. There is a brief, critical window of opportunity to ensure that public access to the results of federally…
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