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Academic Commons Document Withdrawal Policy

Withdrawal Academic Commons has been established to create permanently accessible digital versions of the items of scholarship created by members of the Stony Brook University community, a goal consonant with its responsibilities to preserve the intellectual record established at the university and

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Determining Whether You May Post a Document to Academic Commons

To post a document (i.e., digital content of any type) to Academic Commons you must either:   (1) be the copyright holder of that document or (2) be licensed by the copyright holder to distribute the document through an open access digital

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Evaluating Author Impact

Why would you want to evaluate an author? There are steps researchers can take to figure out whether findings reported in research articles are plausible. One step is to investigate the source, including evaluating author(s), the article and the journal.

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Academic Commons

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

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Presentations

Open Access, Open Data, Open Minds  featured  visionary ideas and  inspirational speakers. It combined the 9th Prelec Lecture on excellence in healthcare informatics with dynamic leaders from influential open access initiatives, and includes panel discussions of  the value and meaning

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Poster Session

The 2015 Open Access Symposium & 9th Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture featured a poster session covering a range of open access topics.  Posters were created by Stony Brook University Librarians Darren Chase, Laura Costello, Jennifer DeVito, Ann Gleason, Molly Higgins,

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Open Access Week 2015

Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What it means to academia and research is that the primary barrier to access, price, is removed from the equation, allowing free access

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Support Open Access

Sign up and declare your support for free open access to research. We encourage you to add your name or that of your department in support of the following statements: Publicly funded research needs to be available to the public.

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Open Access Symposium & Prelec Lecture 2015

October 22, 2015 Open Access, Open Data, Open Minds  featured  visionary ideas and  inspirational speakers. It combined the 9th Prelec Lecture on excellence in healthcare informatics with dynamic leaders from influential open access initiatives, and includes panel discussions of  the

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Research Data

SBU Libraries Research Data Services provides guidance and support for all aspects of the data lifecycle, from planning your data management strategy during the proposal phase through preserving your data at the conclusion of your project. We are happy to

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