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An 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…
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