MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
From Times Higher Ed. A mathematician who led the boycott in the UK of a major publisher over the issue of open access and a vice-chancellor who served on the Browne Review are among the higher education figures recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Timothy Gowers, Royal Society research professor in the department of […]
From a SAGE Announcement: SAGE today announced they are launching three broad-spectrum open access journals – SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. The new journals build on SAGE Open: the only broad-spectrum open access journal for the humanities and social sciences. Launched in March 2011, the journal has received […]
New Issue Alert: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
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|New Issue: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Vol 7, No 2 (2012) Table of Contents All Articles Are Available Full Text Editorial Learning From Others About Research Evidence Alison Brettle Editorial Responsibilities‘ Articles Interactions: A Study of Office Reference Statistics Naomi Lederer, Louise Mort Feldmann Digital Images in Teaching and Learning at York University: […]
Open Access Research in Japanese Institutional Repositories Exceeds 1 Million Full Text Items
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|From a UCL (University College London) Discovery Blog Post by Erica D McLaren: Ikuko Tsuchide, from the Japanese Digital Repository Federation (DRF), reported this week that on June 1st 2012 the number of Open Access full text items in Japanese institutional repositories exceeded the one million mark. The total comes from the National Institute of […]
Substance Abuse Librarians Raise the Alarm as Libraries Continue to Close
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|From a News Release: Members of the Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS) are calling for urgent action to halt the closure of specialist libraries and databases, before valuable resources and expertise are lost forever. Since SALIS started actively campaigning against the closure of alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) libraries and databases eight […]
International Collaboration Will Develop Open Repository For Academic Library Electronic Resources Data
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|From JISC: Kuali OLE, one of the largest academic library software collaborations in the United States, and JISC, the UK’s expert on digital technologies for education and research, announce a collaboration that will make data about e-resources—such as publication and licensing information—more easily available. Together, Kuali OLE and JISC will develop an international open data […]
From Highwire Press and eLife: eLife, the new funder-researcher collaboration in science communication, has selected HighWire Press as the platform for its new open‐access journal for life and biomedical science. First announced in summer 2011, eLife is a researcher-led initiative for the best in science and science communication. Backed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, […]
Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ Launches Open Access Journal and Preprint Server (Roundup)
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|Here’s a roundup of some of today’s PeerJ launch coverage. + New OA Journal, Backed by O’Reilly, May Disrupt Academic Publishing (by Michael Kelley, Library Journal) PeerJ will do without the widely employed and often expensive article-processing charge (commonly called author fees) of other OA journals, which average about $900 per published paper, according to […]
From Utah St. University: Utah State University has joined an emerging national trend and the ranks of a growing number of the country’s universities in adopting an official “Open Access” policy. USU’s University Libraries headed the effort. “For the library and, indeed, the whole university, this is a momentous occasion,” said Richard Clement, USU’s dean […]
The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Economics & Finance (Highlights)
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|Highlights from a recently released report by the Primary Research Group. From the Summary: This report is based on a survey of 35 academic library subject specialists in economics and finance, predominantly from research universities, including Northwestern, Georgetown, Princeton, and many others. The study gives detailed data on budgets and spending patterns of subject specialists […]