Archive for November, 2025
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Lyrasis, Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries, and California Digital Library Receive Grant to Advance Diamond Open Access in the United States
This post originally appeared on the Lyrasis website. California Digital Library (CDL), together with our partners Lyrasis and the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs, received a $206,886 grant-funded project from the Gates Foundation to advance community-governed, open access scholarly publishing in the United States. The grant will support the project Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Journals, which will conduct the first national mapping of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing in the United States. Diamond OA journals are peer-reviewed publications that are free for both authors and readers and operate without commercial profit motives. The project will illuminate the decentralized […]
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Making Data Count in Academic Evaluation
John Chodacki is the Director of the UC Curation Center at California Digital Library, and Stephanie Lieggi is Executive Director of OSPO (the Open Source Program Office) at UC Santa Cruz. Research data are central to modern scholarship, and building clear pathways to reward data contributions is increasingly important across academia, including in hiring, promotion, and review decisions. Because of this, we joined the Implementing Data Evaluation in Academia Working Group (IDEA WG) to showcase peer examples of data evaluation and data impact from around the world, and help build practical resources that institutional departments can adopt now. The IDEA […]
