openVirus – Indexing OA for COVID-19

#openVirus is a project to develop knowledge resources and tools to help tackle the COVID19 outbreak. It does by data mining open research paper repositories, aggregates of scholarly publications and extracted knowledge on viruses and epidemics. source:

Generation R

Generation R is an online editorial platform for Open Science discourse across Europe. Our guiding editorial question to approach Open Science is to take a ‘needs based approach’ to researchers and look for replicable models that the wider community can…

Teaching with Omeka

[…] In this blog post, GC Digital Fellow Stefano Morello discusses a variety of strategies for teaching with Omeka, a digital archiving platform. Stefano considers project ideas, teaching and learning outcomes, as well as best practices for using Omeka in…

Public Books Database

With university classrooms and libraries shuttered because of the COVID-19 crisis, scholars are facing disruptions not only in their teaching lives but also in their ability to access research materials. In response, many academic presses have made hundreds of their…

Georgia Open Stacks

The University of Georgia Press is temporarily providing open, read-only access to a selection of our titles in history and other humanities fields. In response to the closures of school, libraries, and other public places due to COVID-19, our hope…

Access 1.4 Million Books for Free

“Students, teachers, and readers can now access over 1.4 million books for free as part of the National Emergency Library, a project launched on Tuesday by the Internet Archive to aid remote learning efforts. Covid-19 has pushed millions of students’…

Smithsonian Open Access

The Smithsonian Institution is inviting the world to engage with its vast repository of resources like never before. For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithsonian has released 2.8 million high-resolution two- and three-dimensional images from across its…

Style guide for an Open Access publishing workflow for academic books

The present style guide has been created as result of the research project Open-Access-Hochschulverlag ( Open Access University Press) at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany. The project was to develop a sustainable and adoptable workflow, which enables universities to…

Book; Understanding Document Accessibility

A Reference for Creating Accessible Office Documents Authors: Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School Book Description: With much of the world gone digital, learning to create documents that are accessible to everyone is becoming a necessary skill. Intended for a…