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Issue 152: iSGTW 25 November 2009

OpenAIRE: archive access, anytime, anywhere


Open access can breathe new energy and productivity in to the work of research.

Formally embracing the open access ethic, the European Commission is now requiring that results from some of the research it funds be freely available. Authors will deposit a copy of their articles in a “digital repository,” a kind of electronic library accessible through the Web.

But while many institutions have their own, pre-existing repositories for published documents, these are not comprehensively linked and searchable. And some institutions hosting EC-funded researchers are without digital libraries for keeping research papers.

How to solve this problem?

With OpenAIRE.

Launched on the first of December, this project will create the e-infrastructure needed to archive scientific results and give anyone, anywhere, at anytime, access to them.

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Event roundup  
           

In case you missed the weeklong Supercomputing 09 event in Portland, Oregon, here’s some highlights.

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Opinion

 The long view: A conversation with John Wood

One of the key people behind ESFRI looks into his crystal ball.

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Link of the Week

How do you bring together in one place data from multiple, independent projects studying climate change, the decline in the the world’s fisheries, and its effects upon our food supply?

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Tweet of the Week

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Feature - The forecast before the storm

Q&A - Joe Hellerstein on cloud programming

Q&A - People behind EGI: Steve Brewer steps in as the voice of the user

Poll of the week - Rock stars of scientific computing

Videos of the week - NoHardware.com destroys server huggers' equipment

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Symposium on Authentication Technologies for Research and Education abstracts due

Grace Hopper early bird registration due

Gordon Conference 2010 abstracts due

Jobs in distributed computing

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