MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
HathiTrust Has Posted Their March, 2011 Activities Update
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Reports
|Access the complete update here. A PDF version is also available. Topics Include: TRAC Certification Open Webinar IMLS Quality Grant You’ll also read about HT developing a print holdings database. Here’s a part of the post: HathiTrust has been working to design and populate a database of information representing the print holdings of all partner […]
Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development Summary Points + Unequal access to and distribution of public knowledge is governed by Northern standards and is increasingly inappropriate in the age of the networked “Invisible College”. + Academic journals remain the primary distribution mechanism for research findings, but commercial journals are largely […]
Congrat's Peter! Peter Suber Wins ALA's L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Before we share a portion of the official ALA announcement about Peter Suber winning the Patterson Award we want to commend ALA’s OITP on their choice. Peter Suber’s work has a lot to do with the increased attention that open access publishing has received during the past several years. Attention is one thing but Peter […]
UNESCO Plans To Develop a Global Open Access Portal, Call Goes Out for Help
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From a UNESCO Announcement: UNESCO, with the support of Colombia, Norway and United States of America, is developing a portal on Open Access (OA) to present a high-level snapshot of the state of OA around the world. Entitled Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), the tool is supposed to be the first destination for users seeking […]
+ Alexander Street Press Announces Three New Streaming Video Collections and Announces Academic Video Online Publishing Plan for 2011 Online video repository announced. Plans call for for 20,000 titles in repository by 2013. (Currently at 8,000). Note: A free sneak peek of the three new video databases is now available. Register here. + Gale Adds […]
“Open access journal Translational Psychiatry launches (Nature Publishing Group)” LexisNexis To Become Exclusive Third Party Distributor of Legal Content from ALM See Also: More from Law.com “Emerald launches Reading ListAssist, a free innovative service for subscribers” “Adis Journals Embrace Open Access” “Thomson Reuters Introduces the New Web of Knowledge” See Also: More on This Thomson […]
Heather Morrison has posted a number of new statistics about open access publishing during Q1 2011. She also provides analysis. You’ll find the material on her blog, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Here’s a taste of what’s in the post. Number of open access journals (DOAJ): over 6,000. Growth rate: 4 per day. Number […]
NOTE: This Blog Post Below Discusses an Article We Linked to On Wednesday. The Post Can Be Accessed Here. From a Blog Post By Zoë Corbyn on The Great Beyond (Nature Publishing Group) The results [of a study by Phillip Davis] stand in contrast to those found by open access advocate Stevan Harnad, from Southampton […]
HathiTrust Certified as Trustworthy Repository
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|From a HathiTrust Announcement: HathiTrust has been certified as a trustworthy digital repository by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) through their rigorous Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC) assessment program. Only a small number of digital repositories have been granted this certification. As our reliance on digital resources grows, the need for “long-lived” collections […]
"Paid access to journal articles not a significant barrier for scientists"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
|We look forward to read what others have to say about this new research article. From a FASEB Announcement (via EureakAlert): They say the best things in life are free, but when it comes to online scientific publishing, a new research report in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests otherwise. In the report, Philip M. Davis from […]