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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 […]
The Learning Registry: “Social Networking For Metadata”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Resources, School Libraries
|Note: The Learning Registry is a U.S. based project that was first announced last summer by the U.S. Secretary of Education. The U.S. Dept. of Defense is also a key member of the collaboration. If you’re unaware or would like to learn more about The Learning Registry a post on the JISC CETIS (from the […]
You can take a look by visiting the DOAJ site at: http://www.doaj.org/ Peter Suber’s Open Access Tracking Project links to an SPARC/ARL mailing list posting with some details: Now there are more than 6300 journals from more than 110 countries in more than 50 languages in the DOAJ. More than 2500 journals are providing metadata […]
Dr. Suber was interviewed by Richard Masters for Science Media Watch. The interview opens with Suber’s definition of open access: First of all, OA is impossible without the internet, the way I define OA entails the internet. Even if you wrote some literature and gave it away on the street, it’s not strictly OA because […]
Library Hi Tech (Volume 29.2) Now Available to Emerald EarlyCite Subscribers
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, EBSCO, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Podcasts, Reports
|If you have access to Emerald’s pre-publication service, EarlyCite articles from Library Hi-Tech (29.2) are now available online. This is a great example of an issue with something (and very likely more) for every one. Articles Include: “Providing online access to historic films at the Washington State University Libraries” Mr. Mark O’English, Prof. Trevor James […]
New from the OCLC Library/OCLC Research: The Global Library Statistics Web Page
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|Cool! Here’s a new resource about libraries that will very likely make a lot of people very happy! It’s brand new from OCLC! Make sure to pass this one along to colleagues. From a Post by Larry Olszewski on the OCLC Cooperative Blog: As Director of the OCLC Library, I get to see lots of […]
Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Winter 23(1):3. Note: This is the first open access issue of ISQ. Direct to Table of Contents: Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) Winter 2011, Volume 23, Issue 1 Letter from the Managing Editor FEATURES NISO Year in Review 2010 by Karen Wetzel TC46 Year in Review 2010 by Cynthia Hodgson IN PRACTICE […]