« Depuis le 1er janvier, le CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) est entré en vigueur aux États-Unis. Ce texte adopté en 2018 par l’État de Californie en réaction au scandale Cambridge Analytica a fait l’objet d’une large couverture par la presse américaine, qui…
« On January 1, 2020, works from 1924 will enter the US public domain, where they will be free for all to use and build upon, without permission or fee. These works include George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and books such as Thomas…
« (…) The White House is considering issuing an executive order that would mandate immediate free access to all published federally funded research, according to administration and scientific publishing officials. (…)
A zero-embargo requirement would upend the scientific publishing business, the vast majority of which derives its revenues from institutional…
« TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) creates website to build a community of scholars, publishers, librarians, university administrators that increases access to humanities and social sciences scholarship
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of University Presses (AUPresses) have launched a new website,
« Public access to the results of federally funded research can accelerate scientific breakthroughs. In 2013, certain federal agencies were directed to create plans for increasing access to publications and data they funded.
The 19 agencies we reviewed made progress, but some have not fully implemented their plans. For example:
« Jeff MacKie-Mason and Ivy Anderson, who co-chair the team overseeing UC’s publisher negotiations strategy, issued the below statement today (Nov. 21) following Carnegie Mellon University’s announcement that CMU has reached a transformative agreement with Elsevier that integrates open access publishing of CMU research with the university’s…
« Yale researchers in any discipline now have a new, easy-to-use option for publication of research data.
As of October 1, Yale became an institutional member of Dryad, an open access, research data curation and publication platform. Yale University Library will fund and manage the membership as part of the…
« Earlier this year, we shared some exciting changes that will make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish open access with Cambridge University Press. Those changes are now here. Beginning on September 19, 2019, authors will see UC’s discounted open access publishing option…
« (…) Yale University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Yale University Library has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, Yale-affiliated corresponding authors will benefit from a 15% membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) when…
« The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press was the first university press to sign an agreement with the Internet Archive to scan older print books for which it had no digital copies to make them available for one-at-a-time lending, a model known as Controlled Digital Lending.…
