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"Universities could be adding millions of pounds to the UK economy, according to findings announced this week by JISC at a Universities UK event. A recent JISC report, authored by Alma Swan (Modelling scholarly communication options: costs and benefits for universities) shows that a single large university could contribute around £3 million each year to the research community as a whole simply by sharing knowledge through a more open route."

"LODUM takes this approach to the next level by implementing a strategy that aims to improve the transparency and visibility of the university. The comprehensive LODUM approach includes an Open Access strategy for publications as well as publishing any non-sensitive data online following the Linked Data principles. Both the Open Access and Open Data movements are currently gaining a lot of momentum and will shape the future of academic publishing and accessibility of public data. The University of Münster is the first German university to implement an extensive program following these new approaches, which have recently also been published as recommendations for the future development of university libraries by the German research council."

Open Knowledge Foundationin Bibliographica-projekti (http://bibliographica.org/): palvelu joka sisältää bibliografista metadataa avoimesti. Mukana ollut myös Edinburghin yliopiston IDEALab.