Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Have You Already Picked Your Way to Participate in the Open Access Week?
- Why does it cost $20,000 a year to subscribe to a science journal?
- No Authors Have Been Harmed in the Making of This Library
- Emergency Medicine and PMC- Not quite there yet
- Copyright confusion dogs European digitisation push
- Nature Publishing Group introduces open access options to Japanese titles
| Have You Already Picked Your Way to Participate in the Open Access Week? Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:12 AM PDT InTechWeb Blog, (22 Sep 2011) If you don’t know the plan yet, it is to make Open Access Week bigger than ever this year. |
| Why does it cost $20,000 a year to subscribe to a science journal? Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:14 PM PDT |
| No Authors Have Been Harmed in the Making of This Library Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:08 PM PDT www.eff.org "We [at EFF] have been puzzling over the Author’s Guild’s decision to sue several university libraries for participating in the digitization and storage of millions of works (largely in connection with the Google Books project) and making scans of some of those works available to the academic community. Simply put, it appears that the Guild is dead set on wasting time and money addressing imaginary harms, whether or not its efforts might actually benefit either its members or the public...." |
| Emergency Medicine and PMC- Not quite there yet Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:03 PM PDT www.openbiomed.info, (05 Sep 2011) "The data above reveals low representation in PMC for a select group of highly ranked journals [in the field of emergency medicine]. Unlike the discipline of Infectious Disease which has at least two open access journals that are highly ranked, the major peer-reviewed journals for Emergency Medicine in the chart above, for the most part, continue in traditional toll-based publishing models, where authors seek to enhance their academic reputation by providing free content to publishers that then control it and sell access back to libraries where the research took place. And unlike the perception that infectious public health problems require more urgent and long-term open sharing of research results to discover cures and administer care for millions at risk, the academic work of Emergency Medicine is a product of traditional hospital culture and short-term outcomes like stabilizing a patient...." |
| Copyright confusion dogs European digitisation push Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:53 PM PDT www.bbc.co.uk "The cultural life of Europe will suffer unless more effort is made to clarify what libraries can do with so-called orphan works, says a study...." |
| Nature Publishing Group introduces open access options to Japanese titles Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT www.nature.com "Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce an increase in open access options for its Japanese titles from September 2011. NPG Asia Materials is now receiving submissions as part of its re-launch as an online only, open access journal in January 2012. In addition, The Journal of Antibiotics and Polymer Journal have introduced open access options for authors...." |
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