MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
New Research Article: “Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science”
|The following article was posted yesterday on arXiv. An earlier version was presented in May 2015 at the 9th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in Oxford, UK. Title Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science Authors Misha Teplitskiy University of Chicago Grace Lu University of Chicago Eamon […]
Springer Acquires Three Pioneering Open Access Journals From Max Planck Institute
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Ed. Note: Worth pointing out that one of the publications mentioned below, Living Reviews in Relativity suspended publication last year and Max Planck was looking for a solution to continue publication that they’ve now found. From Today’s Announcement: (News Release also Available from Max Planck Inst.) Springer has acquired the three pioneering ‘living’ open access […]
New Issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is Devoted to Open Access
Libraries, New Issue, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing
|The Summer 2015 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) has been released and is titled, “Beyond Access” and is LOADED with interesting reading. Kudos to JEP Editor, Maria Bonn! We plan to feature a number of articles with individual posts over the next week or two. In fact, we already posted an entry […]
Open Access: IFLA/Brill Open Access Award 2015 Goes to Directory of Open Access Books
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|IFLA is the International Federation of Library Associations. From Today’s Announcement: IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce that the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), from the Netherlands, has been selected as this year’s winner of the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access Award was created in 2013 for initiatives in the […]
Open Access E-Books: Johns Hopkins University Press/Project MUSE Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Develop “Muse Open”
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From a Project MUSE Announcement: Johns Hopkins University Press is delighted to announce the award of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of MUSE Open, a distribution channel for open access monographs through Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. […]
One-stop searching! From the U. of Kentucky Libraries: The University of Kentucky Libraries has collaborated with several counterparts and Berkeley Electronic Press to create Kentucky Research Commons, an online portal that highlights and provides access to scholarly works produced at different institutions in the Commonwealth. Institutions with Materials Accessible via Kentucky Research Commons: Asbury Theological […]
Open Access Books: OAPEN Projects Passes 2 Million Downloads, Adds New Publishers, and Enriched Metadata via Isidore
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Open Access, Publishing, Resources
|OAPEN is a project based in Europe, “dedicated to Open Access publishing of academic books.” A list of some of the publishers who contribute data to OAPEN can be found on this page. The two millionth download of an open access book from the OAPEN database took place earlier this month. According to the OAPEN […]
Authors From the Smithsonian Institution are Increasingly Publishing Open Access Articles and Reports
Journal Articles, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing, Reports
|From the Smithsonian’s Unbound Blog: The Smithsonian will soon develop procedures for complying with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s directive on public access to federally funded research. That means that most papers authored by Smithsonian staff and affiliates will be made available to the public at no charge, some after an […]
New Survey Finds Increasing Experimentation by Publishers and Libraries With Open Access Books
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From Publishers Communication Group (PCG): Publishers and libraries are increasingly experimenting with Open Access (OA) books, according to a new survey by industry advisors, Publishers Communication Group (PCG). Books published under the so-called “author-pays,” Gold Open Access model with no paywall for readers are expected to slowly grow in importance, with funding derived from a […]
A Group of Library Organizations From Around the World & Others “Denounce Elsevier’s New Policy that Impedes Open Access and Sharing”
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|UPDATE: We’ve added a link to Elsevier’s Alicia Wise response to the letter below. UPDATE: Prue Adler from ARL has also posted about the situation discussed below. You can access their post here. 24 organizations, including many library organizations mentioned regularly on infoDOCKET, have signed a statement asking Elsevier to reconsider the policy discussed and linked to […]