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Beyond Access: Caring for the Knowledge We Share – Open Access Week 2025
Every October, libraries, researchers, and institutions around the world celebrate International Open Access Week, reminding us to think about how we share knowledge and who gets to access it. This year’s theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, feels especially timely. It asks how, in a time of disruption, communities can take back control over the knowledge…
Read MoreOpen Access Week 2025 – When AI Learns From Our Knowledge
Open Access has always been about removing barriers to make research, data, and ideas freely available for anyone to learn from. But as artificial intelligence systems start learning from that same openness, we’re faced with the question: Who owns our knowledge? AI developers are increasingly training large language models on massive collections of online material,…
Read MoreOpen Access Week 2025 – MBLWHOI Library Open Repositories
Who Owns Our Knowledge? In the age of information, one of the most profound questions we face is: Who owns our knowledge? The internet, social media, and digital archives have made knowledge more accessible than ever before, but at what cost? Who controls the flow of information, and what are the ethical implications of who…
Read MoreNewest Open Access publishing opportunities + OA Week 2025
On this Open Access Week 2025, Researchers want to know, “Where can I publish my research article Open Access and free-of-charge?” The answer to this question in Woods Hole grows in the number of journal titles offering OA each year, although the list of titles is by no means a comprehensive list. The MBLWHOI…
Read MoreAn update on federally-funded data
Earlier this month, the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE) published a report titled, “America’s Data Future: Towards A Roadmap for Action,” which provides an excellent and rich synthesis of the challenges facing federally-funded data, both that which is generated directly by government agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau or the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Read MoreNIH’s Public Access & Data Sharing Policies: What The Woods Hole Science Community Needs to Know
NIH Public Access Policy In April the NIH Director announced that the effective date for the new NIH Public Access Policy would be moved up to July 1, 2025 (the effective date was previously December 31, 2025). Here’s what you need to know and some resources to help you out! What is the NIH Public…
Read MoreWorried 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…
Read MoreMid-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…
Read MorePublish 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…
Read MoreTitanic Discovery Digital Collection Now Available Online!
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…
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