Peer REview for Publication & Accreditation of Research Data in the Earth sciences (PREPARDE) is a UK JISC funded international project that brings together a wide range of experts in research, academic publishing and data management to produce data publication guidelines applicable across a range of research disciplines and data types.
CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available.
This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities. The Open Library of Humanities aims to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is: Reputable and respected through rigorous peer review, Sustainable, Digitally preserved and safely archived in perpetuity ...
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 D-Net Software Kit is an Open Source service-oriented solution for the construction of customized Data Infrastructures. Data Infrastructures address the need increasingly manifested by research communities to operate over the integration of content collected from several information sources (such as institutional repositories endowed with OAI-PMH interfaces, or archives of research data).
The Budapest Open Access Initiative: an international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet. Recommendations for the next 10 years.
E-prints for Library and Information Science (E-LIS) is an international open access archive for e-prints related to Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application disciplines. This service aims to support individuals who wish to publish or otherwise make their papers available worldwide.