*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, ...

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 ...

Institutional repositories have become a reminder that it’s hard to predict what products of academe the world at large will want access to. The flashiest research may not be the most popular. Digital ...

What is the Lycoming College Institutional Repository? The Lycoming College Institutional Repository provides online open access to Lycoming College student and faculty scholarship, institutional ...

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, ...

The Western Michigan University Institutional Repository (IR), also known as ScholarWorks@WMU, is a digital showcase of research, scholarly and creative output of members of the WMU community, and ...

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

The publishing giant Elsevier became a major player in the institutional repository landscape Wednesday with the acquisition of the private company Bepress. The acquisition is the third such purchase ...

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 ...

MINSK, 23 September (BelTA) – Belarusian State University (BSU) Digital Library remains the leader among institutional repositories of Europe and is one of the world's three best institutional ...

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 ...

Some faculty object that an OA policy would infringe their academic freedom. If they object that it will limit their freedom to submit new work to the journals of their choice, then they are mistaking ...