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- An Open Access future? Report from the eurocancercoms project
- False Alarm, There is no money crisis in libraries
- Fünf Jahre offizielle Open-Access-Heuchelei im deutschen Bibliothekswesen
- The Well is Dry, What Can We Do?
- HathiTrust Acknowledges Flaws in Handling ‘Orphan Works’
- Health bill changes may restrict public access to information, campaign group warns
- Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals - NYTimes.com
| An Open Access future? Report from the eurocancercoms project Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:55 AM PDT www.eacr.org Abstract: In March 2011, as part of the background research to the FP7 Eurocancercoms project, the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) conducted an online survey of its members working in Europe to discover their experiences of and attitudes to the issues surrounding academic publishing and Open Access. This paper presents the results from this survey and compares them to the results from a much larger survey on the same topic from the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP). The responses from both surveys show very positive attitudes to the Open Access publishing route; perhaps the most challenging statistic from the EACR survey is that 88% of respondents believe that publicly funded research should be made available to be read and used without access barriers. As a conclusion and invitation to further discussion, this paper also contributes to the debate around subscription and Open Access publishing, supporting the case for accelerating the progress towards Open Access publishing of cancer research articles as a particularly supportive way of assisting all researchers to make unhindered progress with their work. |
| False Alarm, There is no money crisis in libraries Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:49 AM PDT Krafty Librarian, (08 Sep 2011) "Yesterday I posted, “The Well is Dry, What Can We Do?” to try to get librarians to stop lamenting over things we can never change like companies (for profit and non-profit) charging more and more for library resources and try to get us to start looking at things we can change like finding alternative funding, increasing institutional partnerships, or friending the hospital CEO....But apparently I was totally wrong, there is no money crisis. Wow I do I have egg on my face. I want to thank @re_johns for opening my eyes and directing me to ”Uninformed, Unhinged, and Unfair — The Monbiot Rant,” a post by Kent Anderson, the CEO Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery....Well damn. I guess I was totally wrong when I said that many libraries face flat or reduced budgets. My bad. I guess being faced with reduced budget means I totally can afford each vendor’s price increase and not cut anything. Whoa I feel so much better....Anderson’s post really makes me feel like there are still some publishers that don’t freaking get it, we don’t have any more money!..." |
| Fünf Jahre offizielle Open-Access-Heuchelei im deutschen Bibliothekswesen Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:21 AM PDT |
| The Well is Dry, What Can We Do? Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:08 AM PDT Krafty Librarian, (07 Sep 2011) "These past few years libraries have either had their budgets held flat or had them cut every year. It is sad to say that the “lucky” libraries are the ones that have had their budgets held flat. Yet, library resources continue to increase in number and price. I am sure it isn’t a news flash or secret to the sales people (although it seems like it when we see the invoice) but libraries have no more money. We have trimmed all of our fat. We are skin, bones and a little bit of sinew holding us together. All superfluous resources were cut years ago. We are now making hard cuts, getting rid of journals, packages, databases, that we would have never imagined cutting. We are slicing our book budget (ebook and regular) to nothing. Yet prices continue to rise...." |
| HathiTrust Acknowledges Flaws in Handling ‘Orphan Works’ Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:58 AM PDT Wired Campus, (16 Sep 2011) "Faced with criticism over how it identifies “orphan works,” the HathiTrust digital repository acknowledged that its procedure is “flawed” and said it was working to fix the problems before it makes those works more widely available. A work is considered an orphan if it’s subject to copyright but its owner can’t be identified or found. HathiTrust planned to release the first batch of books in its Orphan Works Project next month. Access would still be limited to users of the repository’s partner libraries, and rights holders would still be free to claim ownership...." |
| Health bill changes may restrict public access to information, campaign group warns Posted: 18 Sep 2011 09:12 AM PDT BMJ 343, (09 Sep 2011) "The public’s access to information about the NHS may be restricted by the government’s radical changes because of the involvement of independent providers, the Campaign for Freedom of Information has warned. The changes will enable NHS services to be provided by NHS bodies or independent providers under contract. The NHS organisations that commission services are subject to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act but the independent providers will not be, points out the campaign group, which is a non-profit organisation working to improve public access to official information...." |
| Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals - NYTimes.com Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:04 AM PDT www.nytimes.com "[W]ith British universities already spending 65 percent of their library acquisition budgets on periodicals — up from 50 percent 10 years ago — and university funding cut back, the pressure for change is mounting. “It’s not just that journal prices keep going up without any evident relationship to costs,” said Robert Kiley, head of digital services at London’s Wellcome Library. “There is also a concern that so much research, which in many cases has been funded by the taxpayer, is locked behind publishers’ pay walls.” Asked to explain how publishers justify their rising prices, Tom Reller, a spokesman for the scholarly publisher Elsevier, based in the Netherlands, declined to comment....“Scholars write journal articles for impact, not for money,” said Peter Suber, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. “And while there are a lot of misunderstandings most people understand that open access is not like file sharing music or video piracy. Open access relies on the copyright holder’s consent.” ...Sir John Daniel, president of the Commonwealth of Learning, an organization that helps developing countries improve access to education, said...that open access scholarly publishing is a matter of international justice has become increasingly influential...." |
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