From the Creative Commons (CC) website at http://creativecommons.org/ “Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.”
To search Creative Commons (CC) for creative works marked with Creative Commons [...]
Archive for the ‘open access’ Category
24 Mar
In case you’ve been living under a rock: Creative Commons
24 Mar
Biomed Central and Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals : Please consider for your publications in 2009
As you may remember from 2007-2008 QUT Library set aside money to pay for author submission fees to BioMed Central and PLoS journals as a trial.
Biomed Central and PLoS open access journals provide free access to research articles by charging author fees in lieu of subscription fees.
QUT researchers are now invited to submit manuscripts to [...]
22 Dec
New QUT ePrints interface and HERDC
The move to the later release of EPrints software gave us the opportunity to progress our plans for merging the repository deposit process with the HERDC reporting process. In the long-term, the will reduce some of the double-handling that is currently taking place with regards to reporting of publication data. However, [...]
22 Dec
Search across repositories: Arrow Discovery Service
The ARROW Discovery Service, available at http://search.arrow.edu.au/, allows you to search simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories such as the QUT ePrints archive. One can search across 254,602 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures.
Also on the Arrow Discovery Service website, in the left-hand [...]
10 Dec
QUT ePrints : Citation rate boost
In early 2005 Professor Ray Frost began uploading postprint versions of his journal articles to QUT ePrints at http://eprints.qut.edu.au. When he saw how frequently they were being accessed, he uploaded some of his older publications (from 2000-2004) and now has over 350 of his publications in the repository. Professor Frost says he has found [...]
10 Dec
QUT ePrints : Updated Version
QUT ePrints has released an updated version of their website.
There are a number of benefits including:
the ability to import information via a DOI or EndNote record, which will save time
a cleaner user interface
saved searches: get updates on new additions based on your search terms
contextual help throughout the input forms
QUT Login integration.
For more information about this [...]
30 Oct
Bruno Starr’s letter to editor re: QUT eprints
Earlier this year, Bruno Starrs, a PhD researcher from Creative Industries wrote a letter to the Editor of Campus Review ,’extolling the virtues of QUT ePrints’. The letter was justly awarded “Letter of the Month” status by the Editor. Bruno has just uploaded a copy of the letter to QUT ePrints – so the whole world will [...]
30 Oct
arXiv : Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone With 500,000 Articles
Freely available online respository arXiv, available at http://arxiv.org/ has reached a new milestone in October 2008 with half a million e-print postings in the subject areas of Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics now available.
arXiv was developed by Paul Ginsparg in 1991 when he was working for Los Alamos [...]
30 Oct
Launch Of The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, has announced its official launch in conjunction with an OA Day celebration hosted by the Wellcome Trust in London.
The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines [...]
30 Oct
use of Social Networking Sites and Services by Higher Ed Citizens
The 2008 edition of the _ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology_ that was released this week includes extensive data and analyses on the use of Social Networking Sites and Services by Higher Ed Citizens.
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008 (ID: ERS0808)
Gail Salaway (EDUCAUSE) and Judith Borreson Caruso (University of [...]
