There is an ongoing misperception that simply storing and backing-up research data is equivalent to the preservation guaranteed by long-term archiving. Here we present several aspects of the long-term archiving process.
Research data management (RDM) includes all measures taken to ensure that data is and remains usable. For this to be successful and sustainable, data management must be established as an integral part of the research processes and form a part of scholars’ routines so they can actively and consciously shape the lifecycle of their research data.
In this toolbox, you will find a series of posts about the management of research data.
A workshop about open access took place on 2nd and 3rd November 2017 at the Specialised Information Service for African Studies at the Frankfurt University Library. The slides are available here (in German).
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources.
The Open Data Button has now been combined with the Open Access Button. Now you can find and request both articles and data in one great service instead of making separate searches and requests.
Given the DOI of a paper, how can you find the open access version, given there are so many different repositories?
This year’s Open Access Week will take place from 23 to 29 October.
“What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu and an open access repository?”