MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
Now Available from OCLC Research: Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke at OCLC on 21 February 2012. In this presentation, Dean Marchionini talks about the blurring of boundaries between personal and public digital libraries as […]
OCLC Announces New Agreements With Publishers, Adds More Content and Collections to WorldCat Local
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Conference Presentations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Elsevier, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Maps, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|via OCLC OCLC has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world and has added important new content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items. WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases from a variety of publishers […]
From the American Heart Association: The American Heart Association has launched the online-only open-access Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (JAHA)— packed with free peer-reviewed research on heart disease and stroke. “We envision JAHA as a forum for high quality original articles that cover the full range of cardiovascular science, including […]
From The Register: While America seriously considers the insane Research Works Act (banning the open publication of publicly-funded research), Australia is moving in the other direction. Its National Health and Medical Research Council has announced that all funded research will be made available to the public starting July. Without detailing what license will be used […]
9 Library, Publishing, and Research Organizations Send Letter to Congress in Support of FRPAA
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|Direct to Full Text Letter (3 pages; PDF) The letter is signed by: AALL ALA ACRL ARL Creative Commons Greater Western Library Alliance Public Knowledge Public Library of Science SPARC From the Letter: Timely, barrier-free access to the results of federally funded research is an essential component of our collective investment in science. We fully […]
New Digital Collection: Diaries Digitized by UC Merced Tell First-Hand of Civil War, Lincoln Assassination
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|From the California Digital Library: A new digital collection provides a glimpse into the everyday life of a Union soldier during the U.S. Civil War, as well a first-hand account of President Lincoln’s assassination and its aftermath. The UC Merced Library contributed the collection to the Online Archive of California (OAC), Calisphere, and Merritt, in […]
Congrats to the Open Knowledge Foundation/Open Bibliography Working Group Team! From the Openbiblio.net The team has been coding and blogging and bugfixing for a while now on the BibServer software, and we’ve mentioned in passing that our own instance has been up and running under the name of BibSoup… Now we are officially launching for […]
Council of Library Resources and NITLE to Launch A Digital Academic Publishing Program Named Anvil Academic
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From a Joint News Release: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) announce the formation of Anvil Academic, a digital publisher for the humanities. Anvil will focus on publishing new forms of scholarship that cannot be adequately conveyed in the traditional monograph. “Increasingly, research […]
University of Pittsburgh Reacts to Elsevier Boycott (incl. Info on Elsevier's Contract With Pitt Libraries)
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|From the University Times (Pitt’s Faculty and Staff Newspaper): Fellow mathematicians [protest founder Tim Gowers, is a mathematician] including Juan Manfredi, Pitt’s vice provost for Undergraduate Studies, have made up the bulk of the early signers of the declaration. The University administration would not make Manfredi available to comment for this story. [Clip] Pitt mathematics […]
New Legislation: Bill Would Require Public Access to Taxpayer-Supported Research (Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012)
Associations and Organizations, Funding, News, Open Access, Preservation
|UPDATE: Federal Research Public Access Act 2012 FAQ (via Alliance For Taxpayer Access) UPDATE: Full Text: Letter from ALA, SLA, SAA, Progressive Librarians Guild, OMB Watch, OpentheGovernment.org & Others In Opposition of Research Works Act (PDF) UPDATE: Seven public health groups write to oppose the “Research Works Act” (via Knowledge Ecology International) From The Chronicle of […]