Subscribe to Open Grows with Project MUSE, Clarivate Partners with EveryLibrary, and More Recent announcements from Project MUSE, Clarivate, and other vendors, as well as Cornell's arXiv, the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University, and more. |
Librarians Are Instrumental in Supporting Open Access Publishing—and F1000 Can Help
With new guidelines stating that by Dec. 31, 2025, all federally funded research should be made freely available to the public moving forward, the momentum toward open access publishing at colleges and universities is growing.
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Librarians Can Help Make Research Assessment More Effective. Here’s How
Research assessment, or the process that universities use to measure the value of published papers and other research outputs, plays a critical role in hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. It can have a profound effect on the job stability and reputation of researchers.
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Sharing Research Data Is Becoming More Important. Here’s How Libraries Can Help
Research data are the underlying evidence that supports the claims made in scholarly publications, and making these data publicly available is a fundamental aspect of open access publishing. Yet, owing to a number of obstacles—some real, some perceived—many researchers are reluctant to share their data with the broader research community. |
Preparing for the Future of Open Access Publishing The OSTP memo has important, and far-reaching, implications for how universities and other institutions share their research findings with the public moving forward. While it will advance the future of open-access publishing significantly, it also will impose many challenges on the academic community. |
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