Tuesday, May 19, 2020

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Open-Access Publishing and the Coronavirus

Some publishers are moving toward an open model, prompted by COVID-19.

The unrestricted sharing of scientific papers during the coronavirus pandemic may have hastened the shift toward more open-access publishing, scientists believe, as several leading journals move to make content publicly available.

Following are some Publishers:

Britain’s Biochemical Society became the latest organization to make all of its published content free to view, citing the “extraordinary times with the current Covid-19 pandemic” as its reason for lifting paywalls on its Portland Press imprint until further notice

Springer Nature, announced on April 8, to offer researchers a route to publishing open access in Nature and most Nature-branded journals from 2021

Elsevier title, Neuron, to demand a similar switch to open access.

Source: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/15/coronavirus-may-be-encouraging-publishers-pursue-open-access

Monday, May 18, 2020

Access Rare and Beautiful “Manuscripts of the Muslim World” via UPenn’s Digital Library

This project offers over 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings that are “mostly unresearched.

All materials on OPenn are in the public domain or released under Creative Commons licenses as Free Cultural Works.

The MMW Project characterizes these materials as “mostly unresearched,” perhaps encouraging a curious army of sequestered armchair historians to dig into this wealth more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the Islamicate world broadly construed.

Rource:https://hyperallergic.com/556697/manuscripts-of-the-muslim-world/