Pro mashups book with a CC license
I’ve just followed a link to a blog from someones email footer, and found a book published this year: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress, 2008). The blog is by the author of...
View ArticleGoogle bring Scholar richness into normal search results
Some good news for open access repository advocates: It seems that the normal Google search engine has now started bringing the richness of Google Scholar results into the main Google search results....
View ArticleFollow Google’s green arrow to open content
There is some more good news for repositories that surfaced this weekend (via Peter Suber’s blog and Klaus Graf) about how Google Scholar now highlights results that have open access versions of papers...
View ArticleTweeting temporal tidal data
There are movements worldwide to free not only research publications through the Open Access publishing movement, but also to make data sets free and open. In New Zealand work in this area is being...
View ArticleLibrary Mashups book – Chapter 17 now Open Access
A new book ‘Library Mashups – Exploring new ways to delivery library data‘ has now been published. The book, edited by Nicole Engard, has a great list of 25 authors from all across the globe, including...
View ArticleTweeting tides updated
Almost a year ago I implemented a system that took tidal data which was openly published by Land Information New Zealand for some ports around the country and published them as real-time status updates...
View ArticleFacebook advertising Open Access “Are you a researcher?”
2012 has been a busy year in the world of Open Access. From a UK funding point of view, the big news has included the Finch Report and the RCUK’s reaction this in its new Policy on Access to Research...
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