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Support for CSIC authors to publish in open access [16/05/2012]
CSIC Unit of Information Resources for Research has renowed its partnership with Biomed Central and has reached similar agreements with Chemistry Central and SpringerOpen in order to cover 57% of OA publications costs for articles by CSIC researchers. Details of the programme, including resulting authors' involvement with Digital.CSIC and journals coverage, is available here.

First edition of Digital.CSIC Awards [17/04/2012]
Just released the recipients of the first edition of Digital.CSIC Awards! These awards recognise efforts to make CSIC research outputs available in open access in 3 categories: researcher, center and libraries. Find out their names at the web of the Fourth Conference of CSIC Libraries Network.

Mendeley functionality available in Digital.CSIC [10/04/2012]
Now it is possible to export references of the items housed in Digital.CSIC to Mendeley. The button for bookmarking and linking is available under the title of items and it is necessary to have a Mendeley user account first.

Expert group meeting on Open Access in Biomedical Research [27/03/2012]
On March 21-22, the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) organised with the collaboration of the CSIC Unit of Scientific Resources for Research (URICI) an expert group meeting on Open Access in Biomedical Research. More than 30 experts representing 11 ESF member organisations as well as research agencies, publishers and research library organisations throughout Europe gathered to discuss current barriers to access biomedical research and alternatives offered by open access. CSIC participates through its repository Digital.CSIC in this initiative that is coordinated by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

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