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OSU Libraries & Press Civility Campaign
The OSU Libraries Fall 2012 Grad Student & Faculty
Workshop closes with free sessions on basic and more advanced Zotero (Nov 6th),
EndNote (Nov. 8th), and EndNote Web (Nov. 8th). Register
for these sessions at: http://bit.ly/graduate_workshops.
Questions? Contact hannah [dot] rempel [at] oregonstate [dot] edu
Hurricane
Sandy is causing power disruptions that may limit access to some databases
hosted on servers in affected areas. Material requested through interlibrary loan may
also be delayed due to universities and colleges closing during the storm.
Oregon State University’s The Valley Library is much more than
a book repository. It also serves as a campus art gallery, with dozens of
paintings and photos displayed on the walls and sculptures throughout. More on OregonLive
This week's OSU Libraries & Press Civility Thought: Lower Your MusicOSU Libraries & Press Civility Campaign
The OSU Libraries Fall 2012 Grad Student & Faculty
Workshop series offers free sessions on Data Management (Oct 30th)
and Web of Science (Nov 1st). Register for these and upcoming
sessions at: http://bit.ly/graduate_workshops.
Questions? Contact hannah [dot] rempel [at] oregonstate [dot] edu
Taylor & Francis Online will be undergoing
maintenance on Monday 29th October 2012, starting at 7:00 AM PST and
finishing by 12:00 PM PST. The platform will be unavailable during
this time. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this scheduled
development work.
Most
of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of
conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to
the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers
without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of,
how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for
validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the
Center for Digital...
In
the context of open access, an embargo period is the time between publication
and when an article is viewable to the public on an open access repository like
the ScholarsArchive@OSU. Publishers specify these embargo periods when an
author transfers copyright. Other
things being equal, the most common is an infinite embargo on posting the
published PDF imposed by so many of the for-profit publishers (Elsevier, Springer,
Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage etc.).
An...
The
theme of this year’s International Open Access Week 2012 is “set the default to
open.” This means as soon as an author
makes the final corrections to an article it would be published in a way that
anyone with access to the internet could read it free. Further, perhaps the data behind that article
would also be available. Setting the
default to open doesn’t mean you lose control of your copyright privileges or
that people can use your work without crediting you, it...
