The Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) is committed to the creation and management of a sustainable environment for digital preservation. APTrust’s aggregated repository will help solve one of the greatest challenges facing research libraries and their parent institutions – preventing the permanent loss of scholarship and cultural records being produced today.
Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. Critical Commons is also part of the technical and conceptual architecture for numerous electronic publishing efforts that directly engage media as objects of analysis, curation and critique. At the heart of Critical Commons is an online platform for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating curating and spreading media. Our goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based research, teaching, learning and creativity.
journal articles and accepted manuscripts. anticipated annual growth of 20,000-30,000 publicly-accessible articles and manuscripts. public access gateway to scholarly publications resulting from DOE research funding. When fully operational, DOE PAGESBeta will provide public access to the final peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts or published journal articles following a twelve-month embargo.
SHERPA's new JULIET service breaks down the differing requirements from each of the Research Councils to try and simplify what the policy says has to be done, what authors should archive, when they should archive, and where they should archive their outputs. The list then categorises the different sets of advice in comparison to an ideal Open Access mandate. The JULIET list complements the well-known RoMEO list, which summarises publishers' permissions for archiving research articles.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has established the Scholarly Kitchen - a comprehensive resource and place to go to for exciting dialogue on current trends and information on what’s happening in the scholarly publishing community!