Press release Archives - Open Scholar

Developing the first Open Peer Review Module for Institutional Repositories

September 3, 2015 / 3 Comments

Why aren’t articles on arXiv —or any other open access repository— formally credited as publications? What is it exactly that separates open access repositories from publishers? The simple answer is that publications in journals come with an amorphous quality indicator associated with the journal’s perceived prestige. Articles posted on a repository on the other hand, are considered to be “provided at the reader’s own risk”, as they are not accompanied by any measurable guarantee of their scientific merit. We think the time has come to change all that.

Times Higher Education publishes a news story on LIBRE

July 12, 2013 / Leave a Comment

Academics invited to publish papers, solicit reviews on new scholarly site.

LIBRE partners with CLOCKSS Archive to ensure permanent accessibility to all uploaded articles and datasets

May 6, 2013 / Leave a Comment

The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Open Scholar CIC to preserve the LIBRE Repository in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.

Non-profit organisation ‘Open Scholar C.I.C.’ urges scientists to join their forces against flawed academic publishing model

March 11, 2013 / Leave a Comment

Media release about Open Scholar and the LIBRE project

“Considering the capability of today’s technology, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that scientists and researchers are able to collaborate and access each other’s work easier than ever before. However, that assumption would be wrong.”