MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
Conference Paper: “The Open Library at AU (Athabasca University): Supporting Open Access And Open Educational Resources”
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
|The following conference paper was just published in the latest issue of Open Praxis. It was presented at Open Education Consortium Global 2015 Conference (April 22-24, 2015). Title The Open Library at AU (Athabasca University): Supporting Open Access and Open Educational Resources Authors Colin Elliott Athabasca University Elaine Fabbro Athabasca University Source Open Praxis Vol. 7, No. […]
From the U. of Delaware: The University of Delaware Library has announced that at the April 6 meeting of the Faculty Senate, members unanimously passed an open access resolution granting permission to make their scholarly journal articles openly accessible in the library’s institutional repository (UDSpace). [Clip] The new open access policy implementing the resolution will support […]
New Research Resource: World Health Organization Launches Open Access to the WHO Global Medicines* Safety Database
Data Files, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Public Libraries, Reports, Resources
|The following database became available to the public on Friday, April 17, 2015. From the World Health Organization: Pharmacovigilance, or drug safety, is the primary method used to identify hazards associated with medicinal products and with minimizing the risk of any harm that may come to patients. It is based on timely information sharing and […]
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Plans to Launch Metadata Harvester Pilot and API Next Month
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Open Access, PLOS
|From the DOAJ Web Site: In May we will be starting our next development projects: a metadata harvester and an API. For the harvester, we will run a pilot phase collecting the PLoS metadata. Just by gathering PLoS metadata alone, we will very quickly double our existing article count. In 2016, we’ll scale up the harvester […]
Conference Presentation: “eScholarship: UC’s Shared Open Access Repository and Publishing Platform”
Conference Presentations, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Here’s the slide deck of recent informative presentation by Katie Fortney, Copyright Policy & Education Officer, University of California’s Office Of Scholarly Communication, that we think some of you might find interesting and useful. Fortney’s presentation took place on April 10, 2015 at the Inaugural CSU (California State University) IR Conference 2015 held in San Jose at the Dr. Martin […]
The following report was released earlier this week and is available from arXiv or from the PASTEUR4OA web site. Title Open Access Policy: Numbers, Analysis, Effectiveness Author A. Swan Y. Gargouri M. Hunt S. Harnad Source arXiv and PASTEUR4OA Abstract (Posted on arXiv) The PASTEUR4OA project analyses what makes an Open Access (OA) policy effective. The total […]
Here’s some of what a the Directory of Open Access Journals plans to do between now and the end of 2015. Details about each of these 12 items can be found in this blog post. Reinstate OpenURL Server A Landing Page For Every Article Structured Metadata Google Scholar Compatibility Improved OAI-PMH User Interface: Upgrade To […]
From CERN: CERN and Elsevier have announced that articles published by CERN authors Elsevier Physics journals that are not covered by the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative will now be Open Access. Thanks to this agreement, CERN results in fields such as nuclear physics, instrumentation, astroparticle physics and scientific computing will appear as Open Access articles, with […]
Springer and Jisc Agree on Model to Reduce Total Cost Of Ownership of Open Access and Journal Subscriptions
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
|From Springer: Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc have agreed on a new arrangement which takes into account UK scientists’ need to comply with multiple funders’ open access policies and to have access to the vast library of scientific articles published by Springer, while containing the combined costs of article processing charges and subscriptions. The proposed […]
RCUK (Research Councils UK) Publishes First Independent Review of Its Open Access Policy
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From RCUK: [Yesterday,] Research Councils UK (RCUK) published the first independent review of the implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open Access. Chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess, former University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, the review received an excellent response from the research community, with over 85 submissions of written evidence highlighting how the policy is […]