On April 30, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was moving up the effective date for its updated Public Access Policy to July 1, 2025. The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy, as initially described in the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive often called the “Nelson Memo,” was … Notice of Updated Effective Date for New NIH Public Access Policy
Your HBLS librarians are here to support you in all the valuable work you do. Below are some resources for your research and scholarship. Federal Data and Information Preservation Since January 2025, many federal websites, datasets, and publications have been removed, withdrawn, or modified. In response, information professionals worldwide, including those at Brown University Library, … Health and Biomedical Library Services April News
The Brown University Library’s research data management and publishing support services listed below are available to all Brown-affiliated faculty, staff, and students, including clinical faculty with Brown credentials. Learn about our full array of research support services at https://library.brown.edu/info/research-support-services/. Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) Brown University has a license for LabArchives electronic lab. Principal investigators can … Research Data Management and Publishing Support Services
John Carter Brown Library The John Carter Brown Library is a private institution, located on the campus of Brown University, that is home to an unparalleled collection of rare books, maps, prints, and manuscripts related to the early Americas. Since the 1910s, the JCB has maintained a rich tradition of reproducing its materials across a … The JCB’s Americana and Open Access
No Article Processing Charges Brown authors who wish to publish journal articles “immediate open access” will not be charged article processing charges with these publishers: Many authors would like to immediately publish their scholarly articles open access but are deterred by the article processing charge (APC) assessed by publishers — sometimes as high as thousands … No Article Processing Charges
Brown’s First Open Access Policy In the summer of 2021 the Brown Faculty voted to adopt the University’s first Open Access Policy, in which the faculty commits to making a version of their journal articles available open access online free to read. This could either be via the sharing of a pre-peer reviewed manuscript on … Brown’s Faculty Open Access Policy
Frank Donnelly (Head of Library GIS and Data Services) and his team of student workers at GeoData@SciLi recently released the Ocean State Spatial Database (OSSDB), a geodatabase for conducting basic geographic analysis and thematic mapping within the State of Rhode Island. This open source database is intended to serve as a foundation for contemporary mapping … The Ocean State Spatial Database
You may have heard of Open Access Week: well, this year the Brown University Library is bringing you Open October! Rather than focusing on Open Access for just one week, we’re inspired by our colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis, and will be talking about Open@Brown throughout the month. During October, we’ll be sharing … Welcome to Open October 2023
