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 […]
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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 […]
AAI Receives NEH Digital Start-Up Grant
The AAI has received a Digital Humanities Level II Start-Up grant for development of the Gazetteer of the Ancient Near East (GANE). The award is one of 32 start-up awards announced this month by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities. GANE will be an authoritative, free and open access compendium of over 8,000 places from […]
