News & Announcements
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Titanic is a ship that lives in our collective memory as a symbol of a gilded era that ended abruptly and tragically in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early 20th century. When she was discovered in 1985, world attention was again focused on this vessel and the lasting impact of that night. As the…
The MBLWHOI Library invites you to an Open House on Tuesday, February 14th! We have a variety of virtual and in-person events happening: 10:00 – Woods Hole Open Access Server & Data Services Overview 10:10 – Publishing Open Access Can Be Free 10:20 – Measuring Research Impact with Altmetric & Elements 10:30 – Using the…
Every October we have the opportunity to celebrate the incredibly valuable records and artifacts that are found in the archives. Archivists collect, preserve, and provide access to historically significant collections of unique materials, such as photographs, films, sound recordings, personal manuscripts, and official records. This work strengthens our collective memory by preserving and providing access…