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
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…
No-fee Open Access publishing trial period for MBLWHOI Library scientists through The Company of Biologists Read and Publish agreement
Author-researchers know about Open Access (OA) through having paid article processing charges (APCs) enabling the publication of their journal papers as free to read by anyone with or without a subscription. The system in which a researcher pays an article processing charge of a few thousand dollars (or more) to have their article published OA…
Free Lecture 10/26 – “Inside the Black Box of Academic Publishing”
Abigail Kelly, Scientific Editor from One Earth (a Cell Press Journal) will be here to share an insider’s view on what everyone new to the scholarly publishing process should know. This talk will be especially useful to early career researchers.