MBLWHOI Library
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have collaborated since 1930 in the day-to-day operation of the MBLWHOI Library. The staff and services of the MBLWHOI Library are also utilized year-round by the students and scientists of the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center USGS, the Woodwell Climate Research Center, the Sea Education Association, and NOAA Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Science history exhibits and a commitment to preserving the record of MBL and WHOI science can be seen in in-person and online exhibits, through social media, and on the website mblwhoilibrary.org.
News and Announcements
Worried about your research data? WHOAS is here to help!
You may have seen news about data being removed from various government websites, including NIH, CDC, and NOAA-sponsored sites as well as individual datasets from data.gov and other large aggregators. While this is indeed alarming, many data professionals in the wider research community were already working on creating backups and mirrors of government-hosted data. Those…
International Love Data Week 2025!
WHOI, welcome to International Love Data Week 2025! This week, the global data community celebrates the importance of research data. The theme for 2025 is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” This theme challenges us to consider where data was created, who has a claim to “ownership” of data, and how we can ethically and responsibly…
Celebrate Open Access Week 2024 with Us!
Open Access Week 2024 is just around the corner! This annual event, taking place from October 20-26, is a global celebration of the open access movement, which aims to make research and scholarly works freely accessible to everyone. Open access is more than just a publishing model; it embodies the principles of transparency, collaboration, and…
Mid-year 2024 look at new open access publishing opportunities
Written by: Matthew Person Last Fall we reported on OA publishing opportunities for MBLWHOI Library served Woods Hole scientists (at MBL, WHOI, SEA, USGS, and WCRC.) Here’s a quick mid-year update: The American Society for Microbiology journal titles (with one exception, Molecular and Cellular Biology) will in 2025 become part of the S2O, (“Subscribe to…
Publish OA Without Any Cost to the Author
The 2023 global Open Access week theme is Community over Commercialization. The Woods Hole science community has some opportunities to publish without article processing charges in open access publications which the MBLWHOI Library holds OA agreements with. Scientists who are corresponding authors may publish open access in the journals of the following publishers without paying any charges: Annual…