*The lesson here: if people are devoted to their information, you can't get 'em to give it away for free, even if it costs a ton to hold on to it, and far fewer people will read it. In June 1994, ...

Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed. The publishing giant Elsevier ...

Mississippi State University Libraries is announcing the new and improved Scholars Junction (http://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu), MSU's institutional repository. The ...

Open Access publishing provides a viable alternative to traditional publishing for authors who wish to make their work freely available around the world. RIT Libraries supports the Open Access ...

Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that Appalachian State University has chosen Figshare as its new ...

The institution must have an institutional repository, or participate in a consortial repository. Most schools launch a repository before adopting a policy to fill it, but some do it the other way ...

This policy pertains to the materials and aims of the University of Wyoming’s institutional repository, WyoScholar, hereafter referred to as the “repository.” The repository serves to collect, ...

Qatar's research is making an international impact thanks to Manara, the research repository by Qatar National Library, powered by Figshare. Researchers and institutions in Qatar are now directly ...

This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

At a Sunday morning Midwinter session, presenters Chris Prom, Cara Bertram, and Denise Rayman, all from the U of I library, discussed the open-access repository, known as the ALA Institutional ...

Archival, repository and related studies investigate the methods, infrastructures and policies that underlie the long-term stewardship of cultural, scientific and administrative records. Central ...