Today the announced that all federally funded research will be made openly available. Importantly, it eliminates the 12-month embargo. This is the result of decades of work by , , , and so many more. #OpenAccess
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Missed opportunities and inability to reallocate. Below is a citation of in the library of the future
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✨New on the blog ✨
As a follow-on to our Building Data Resilience Symposium, we're running a blog series featuring each of our presenters.
First up: and on #ReviewsinDH
Read the post👉: educopia.org/reviews-in-dig
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We're so "grilled" to see everyone tonight for day 2 of #CheesyNights! Last night we served 950 😮 crispy grilled cheese sandwiches to hungry Hokies and tonight we're serving hundreds more, despite the rain! 🌧 Nothing gets cheddar than this! 🧀
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What do you think makes the perfect grilled cheese? 🧑🍳 Tell us in the comments! 👇
🧡 Always made with love for our #Hokies. 🧡
#CheesyNights
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Academic Libraries Led Universities Into the Socially Distant Era. Now They're Planning for What's Next.
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Two new Board members were elected for one-year terms: Virginia Steel, , and Tyler Walters, .
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Download 70,000+ metadata records of COVID-19 publications, datasets, software and projects doi.org/10.5281/zenodo published by Explore the dataset from the OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway covid-19.openaire.eu
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University Libraries at is proud to be collaborating with , , & on this important project creating #COVID19 resources for Spanish-speaking communities.
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So to summarize - The Trump Administration has rescinded the 7/6 F-1 students directive. Schools can go online if they want. No new I-20s needed. F-1 visas should be proceeding. Congratulations Harvard and the Wilmer Hale team. Big big win!
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We are getting all set up to host Maker Camp tomorrow with ! ⛺️ Kids will build, design, and code an invention using sensors, 3-D printed objects, a microcomputer, and cardboard. 😮 It's going to be a super FUN week! 🙌 #MakerCamp
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BREAKING: University of California's direct access to 2019 Elsevier articles and select older titles has been discontinued. Articles published before 2019 in most Elsevier journals (95% of historical usage) continue to be available. For alternative access: lib.berkeley.edu/about/uc-elsev
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An amazing story...
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"It seemed appropriate then, when the Mayo Clinic selected my liver donor, that it would be the person who helped train me in open education – David Wiley."
A personal blog post from CC's @cgreen: creativecommons.org/2019/07/10/sha
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#OAI11 Peter Potter, Director, VT Publishing, Visiting Program Office, TOME, Association of Research Libraries. Presenting on open access and the monographs.
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Great place for a drink along the river
With the recent breakdown of negotiations between the University of California and Elsevier (world's largest STEM publisher), we have crafted our (Virginia Tech Libraries) response to this development. Read here at: blogs.lt.vt.edu/openvt/
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Today is Giving Day at Virginia Tech! If you are so inclined to support the great work libraries do with faculty and students, you can use this link to give Givingday.vt.edu/amb/walters. Any amount, even $5 is fine. Thank you for considering :-)
Giving Day at Virginia Tech starts tomorrow! All you Hokies out there, you can make a difference: vt.edu/givingday2019
#VTLibraries #VTGivingDay #HokiesGiveBack
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Exciting possibilities :-)
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AMPLIFYING IMPACT: LYRASIS and DuraSpace announce their intent to merge, forming a robust new home for Community-Supported Programs and Services: bit.ly/2AY0MHa @ARLnews @infodocket @samverarepo @islandora @COAR_eV @euroCRIS_Org @OpenAIRE_eu @VIVOcollab
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For the next 42 days, the University Libraries will manage a campaign to fund the creation of free and editable textbooks for Virginia Tech students and beyond bit.ly/textbookimpact #OER #textbookbroke
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The vision of osf.io/preprints. My team has a prototype of turnkey collections for preprints data etc & a peer review workflow engine
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Titus Brown proposes pop-up journals to nucleate a community #TomorrowsUni
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How often in the Bible the Lord asks us to welcome migrants and foreigners, reminding us that we too are foreigners!
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A turning point for ? Both of these from this week. How about this: desk reject articles that don't have DOIs to data & code
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We are sharing what 4 research universities are doing to approach their research data management needs: bddy.me/2f56deP
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#scidata16 We're getting a good object lesson from Robert Hovden in how data visualisation is highly subjective & can be misleading
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"Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries" from is loaded with vision for digital lib work pubpub.org/pub/future-of-
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Report on #FASTR moving through Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee, one step closer to consideration by Senate #SPARC2016
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KEY POINT says presidents provosts have key role in saying #open is safe, faculty will be supported in being open #SPARC2016
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Thanks Tom. We are glad you like the fusion studio!
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First meeting Our Pandemic project team in Fusion Studio @bedhgames Thanks! @brianmathews @VTLibraries @tywalters1
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In 33 years of operation, only 7 general managers have left this fast-food chain voluntarily. Why turnover is so low s.hbr.org/1SgNhq4
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Computer science, meet humanities. A new type of major combines the pair: chroni.cl/1ORvAcg
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Proud of all of us Hokies this week. Diverse communities = successful communities #strongtogether #HokiesDontHate
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Top 3 land-grants in "value added" by : MIT (98/100); Cornell (96); #VirginiaTech (95). brookings.edu/research/repor #FollowMeToVT
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