Category Archives: Open access

News about open access (free immediate access to publicly funded research)

Research Skills Programme: DSpace@Cambridge

A message from Dr Emma Coonan, Research Skills & Development Librarian: We have now scheduled a session on DSpace@Cambridge, the University’s repository for scholarly digital material. This session is aimed primarily at postgraduate students interested in publishing their research with … Continue reading

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Deposit your thesis for online access in DSpace

Graduates, staff, and alumni of the University can now deposit their theses in the University’s ‘institutional repository’, DSpace@Cambridge, where it will be digitally archived and made available online. More information at Deposit of electronic theses. This may mean very little to you! In brief, … Continue reading

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In defence of Wikipedia

In an item in this Sunday’s Observer newspaper, Face facts: where Britannica ruled, Wikipedia has conquered, John Naughton speaks up for Wikipedia: Unwillingness to entertain the notion that Wikipedia might fly is a symptom of what the legal scholar James … Continue reading

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Open Access growth

Open access (‘OA’) to academic research is growing dramatically according to Heather Morrison in her blog post Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2009.  Morrison, an advocate of OA, has monitored the growth of Open Access in all its forms since 2005. This blog post is … Continue reading

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