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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 archive.   It is a fairly straightforward process to determine

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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. For example, an accomplished researcher who works in an established

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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 University Libraries Center for Scholarly Communication, an open access digital

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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 of open access  and open data for academics, researchers and

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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, Kate Kasten, Jennifer Lyon, Jamie Saragossi, Sally Stieglitz, Robert Tolliver,

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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 to peer-reviewed, scholarly works, books, and just about any other

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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. Open access is “the free, immediate and online availability of research

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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 value and meaning of open access  and open data for

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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 partner with you on proposals and projects. How We Can

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Open Data

Open Data is a term used to describe data made openly available without restrictions or payment barriers — open access for data. Data.Gov The home of the US Government’s open data: data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. European Union Open

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