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Worried about your research data? WHOAS is here to help!

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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…

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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…

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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…

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