MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
From a PLOS Blog Post: We are pleased to announce that PLoS Currents has moved to a new publishing platform, offering easier interaction to all users. This innovative, online publication channel for the rapid communication of new scientific research and ideas aims to minimize delays between the generation and publication of new research [Clip] For […]
Historic Maps Go Digital, More than 161,000 Historic Topographic Maps Now Available from USGS (Free)
|From the USGS: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has publicly released more than 161,000 digitally scanned historical maps spanning in excess of 130 years and covering the conterminous lower 48 states. This Historical Topographic Map Collection provides a comprehensive repository of the landscape of our Nation and tracks changes through time, providing essential clues critical […]
A month ago we posted about the National Gallery of Art in D.C. making all of the images in their web-based database open access. Today, news that the National Gallery of Denmark has released a database of 159 art works licensed using CC BY 3.0. From the Announcement: As a pilot, 159 highlights from our […]
From Today’s Announcement: In late 2011 Springer Science+Business Media and the European Mathematical Society (EMS) partnered to transform the Encyclopedia of Mathematics (EoM) into an open access wiki for the mathematics community (www.encyclopediaofmath.org). In the first six months since its launch, the site has already attracted more than 500,000 visits. Originally published online in 2002 […]
Interview: A Conversation with Stanford’s Highwire Press
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Interviews, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing
|From The Chronicle of Higher Education: In this interview, I speak [Professor Adeline Koh conducts the interview] with the Stanford HighWire Press, which functions as one of the new “printing presses” for scholarly work. Established in 1995, Highwire offers hosting space and a publishing platform for publishers and scholarly societies. HighWire provides the publishing platform […]
Articles in this Issue of LIBER Quarterly (Vol 21 No 3/4) Include: Editorial: Changes all around An Overview of Research Infrastructures in Europe – and Recommendations to LIBER Norbert Lossau Developing European Library Services in Changing Times Paul Ayris The Role of the National and University Library of Slovenia in a Multinational Research Project (IMPACT): […]
OAPEN’s Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Now Live Online
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|We first shared details about the Directory of Open Access Books about six weeks ago. Today (via TeleRead) we learned that the directory is live. It’s can be searched or browsed by title, subject, and publisher. From Today’s Announcement: OAPEN is pleased to announce the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books (www.doabooks.org), a discovery […]
The Economist On Open Access and Scholarly Publishing
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From The Economist Article, “Open Sesame”: Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: a licence to print money. An annual subscription to Tetrahedron, a chemistry journal, will cost your university library $20,269; a year of the Journal of Mathematical Sciences will set you back $20,100. In 2011 Elsevier, the biggest […]
Rockefeller Archive Center to House Ford Foundation Archive
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|The Ford Foundation has awarded the Rockefeller Center Archive $3.2 million to preserve and store Ford Foundation materials. From Today’s News Release: The Rockefeller Archive Center, repository for the records of the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller philanthropies, and other nonprofit organizations, announced today that it will house the archive of the Ford Foundation, the nation’s second-largest […]
The World Bank Announces Open Access Policy, CC Licensing, and Launches Open Knowledge Repository
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|From The World Bank: [Yesterday,] The World Bank announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available as possible. As […]