Columbia Research Data Symposium 2013

A Research Data Symposium was held at Columbia University on Wednesday, February 27. Here are a couple of projects that stood out while trolling tweets and @robincamille’s notes .

Two innovate startups that especially stood out to me:

• Figshare.com
• Nanohub.org

Both are novel approaches to sharing research data and even, in Nanohub's case, analysis software. Nanohub is building a more community-focused platform for nanotechnology researchers. Figshare, backed by for-profit MacMillan publishing company, is open to all disciplines.

Both strike me as repository platforms that people might actually want to use.

Issue with EBSCOhost databases

We are experiencing a technical issue with retrieving EBSCOhost journal articles from off-campus.   The searching functionality will work, but viewing and downloading PDF articles fails in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. We hope to have this resolved soon.

Course Reserves back in court

Fair use and electronic course reserves are back in court. A keenly watched copyright case that pitted three academic publishers against Georgia State University has entered the appeals phase, with a flurry of filings and motions this week and more expected soon. 

http://chronicle.com/article/PublishersLibrary-Groups/136995/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en