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Portable peer review

Portable peer review – independent peer review that travels with a manuscript that is submitted to subsequent different journals, designed to combat redundancy in the peer review process.

Signed peer review

Signed peer review – when the individual reviews are publicly signed by those who conducted them.

Open review

Open review – when reviews are made openly available, typically alongside the article.

Library-based publishing

Library-based publishing – Many academic libraries are now beginning to act as publishers for scholarly works produced in their institutions and elsewhere. In some cases, the library works with the university scholarly press to publish works. In other cases, the…

Epub

Epub – A free and open e-book standard by the International Digital publishing Forum.

CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) employs a unique approach to archiving (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) that was initiated by Stanford University librarians in 1999. Digital content is stored in the CLOCKSS archive with no user access unless a “trigger” event…

Portico

Portico’s preservation approach and policies were developed with advice from the publishing and library communities, and we continue to consult with and receive guidance from our participants. This spirit of global collaboration, transparency, and commitment has made us one of…

HathiTrust

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. The mission of HathiTrust is to contribute to research, scholarship, and the common good by…

CORE

CORE aggregates research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional repositories, subject-repositories and journal publishers. This process, which is called harvesting, allows us to offer search, text-mining and analytical capabilities over not only metadata, but also…

Ask Open Science

Ask Open Science used to be called Open Science Q&A but we changed the name when we registered the domain ask-open-science.org.