MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) News Service has a new blog post (likely written by DOAJ’s Managing Director) on issues with copyright and licensing in the world of open access publishing. It’s the first of two posts on the topic and runs 1550 words. From “Copyright and Licensing Incompatibility – Part 1”: As […]
University of Colorado-Boulder Enacts Campuswide Open Access Policy
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|From CU-Boulder: The University of Colorado Boulder [recently] announced that on April 22 it adopted an Open Access policy that grants CU-Boulder nonexclusive, worldwide license to the scholarly work of its faculty including published journal articles and conference proceedings. [Clip] Faculty members will retain full ownership of their scholarly works, which will be available free […]
Japan: Kyoto University Adopts Open Access Policy
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|From Kyoto University (in English): On 28 April 2015, Kyoto University adopted “Kyoto University Open Access Policy”. This policy mandates faculty members to publicize in principle their academic articles on the Internet by depositing them in “Kyoto University Research Information Repository KURENAI”. Assuring open access to published products of faculty research is expected to facilitate […]
New Case Study: “University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes Towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository:..”
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|The following article was published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository: A Case Study Authors Zheng Ye (Lan) Yang, Texas A&M University Yu Li, Texas A&M University Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication Volume 3, Issue 1 (2015) […]
Graduate Students at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Adopt Open Access Policy
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|From the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa: In a move to expand community and public access to academic research, graduate students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have voted in favor of inclusion in the existing faculty Open Access policy to make their scholarly articles available for free to scholars, educators, policymakers and the public worldwide. […]
From Arkansas Democrat-Online: Faculty at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a new open access policy that would make much of its future scholarly work freely available online. The university’s faculty senate approved a policy giving UA non-exclusive distribution rights for articles voluntarily submitted by faculty as part of a […]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Faculty Council Adopts Open Access Policy
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|From the UNC Library Communications Office: Thanks to a unanimous vote at the April 24 meeting of its Faculty Council, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has joined the community of leading universities that endorse open access. [Clip] Resolution 2015-9: On Endorsing a University Open Access Policy represented more than a year of […]
Open Access: New Gold Old Standard Established For Open And Reproducible Research
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|From the University of Cambridge: A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new gold standard for openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the more than 200GB of data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest results – an unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publication. The researchers hope that this […]
New Article: “Disrupting The Subscription Journals’ Business Model For The Necessary Large-Scale Transformation To Open Access”
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|Here’s an announcement/summary of a new article written by researchers from the Max Planck Digital Library. From the Announcement: The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the […]
Science Europe Posts “New Principles on Open Access Publisher Services”
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|From Science Europe’s Announcement Earlier Today: At its General Assembly meeting in Vienna on 15 April, Science Europe’s members – comprising 50 major public research organisations in Europe – adopted four new common principles on Open Access Publisher Services. The Principles, which were prepared by Science Europe’s Working Group on Open Access to Scientific Publications, […]