Today is the deadline for responses to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Request for Information (RFI) about long-term stewardship of, and broad public access to, digital data resulting from federally funded research. The Alexandria Archive Institute’s responses included the following five primary recommendations for encouraging public access to and preservation of […]
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Archaeology 2.0 Book Hits the Shelves
The print version of Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration was released this week by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. View the abstract and list of contributors. Archaeology 2.0 is the first book in the Cotsen Institute’s new Digital Archaeology Series. The book can be purchased from the David Brown Book Company. […]
White House Seeks Input on Public Access to Federally-Funded Research Results
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy last week released two Requests for Information (RFI) that offer a great opportunity to weigh in on critical questions around access to the results of publicly-funded research. Read on and follow the links to contribute your two cents. 1. Public Access to Digital Data Resulting from […]
Celebrating Open Access Week
October 24-30 is the fifth annual Open Access Week. Open Access Week is a time to highlight and celebrate advances in scholarly openness. Open Access expands the reach of scholarship and increases opportunities for collaboration, both enriching and speeding up the research process. Open Access to scholarly products has been the driving force behind the […]
Open Context and CDL “Data Journals”
We’ve been working to develop a model of “data sharing as publication” in our work with Open Context. In our view, publication helps communicate some of the need for quality and standards alignment that makes effective data dissemination something more formal than implied by the term “sharing.” We’re definitely not alone in this assessment, and […]
AAI Receives Grant for Research on Data Publication Practices
The Alexandria Archive Institute has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the project Toward Data Sharing as Publication: Establishing Editorial Policies and Workflows around Scientific Data Dissemination. The grant supports the development of editorial workflows to help make sharing scientific data valuable for both data contributors and data users. The project […]
