[GOAL] Launching a successful repository with limited resources

* With apologies for cross-posting * For many small schools, implementing a successful institutional repository program is a daunting prospect. How can you use your institution’s small size to your advantage? At Dominican University of California, Scholarly Communications Librarian Michael Pujal

Re: [GOAL] DOAJ is down

Dear GOAL members, Our service is back up. Many thanks for your patience. Best, Clara Armengou DOAJ - Community Manager On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Clara Armengou wrote: > Dear GOAL members, > > We are experiencing some technical issues and our site https://doaj.org/ > is down at the m

[GOAL] Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?

Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published? We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-1

[GOAL] DOAJ is down

Dear GOAL members, We are experiencing some technical issues and our site https://doaj.org/ is down at the moment. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. We are working to fix this issue and we will notify you when the service is back. Thanks, Clara Armengou DOAJ - Community Manager

[GOAL] Open Access Week at the Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge - Thursday

Hello all, Thursday already and Open Access Week is powering along. *Blog* Today's blog "*Are academic librarians getting the training they need?*" https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=995 discusses the issue of changing skill requirements for librarians in an academic context an