Sunday 25 September 2011

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)


Three million texts for free

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 08:05 PM PDT

 
Three million texts for free
3 Million Texts for Free
Internet Archive Blogs, (17 Sep 2011)
Internet archive announcement, 3 million texts for free. Thanks to Brewster Kahle.

Fünf Jahre offizielle Open-Access-Heuchelei im deutschen Bibliothekswesen

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 02:20 PM PDT

Open APIS; My attempts to be Openly Open

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 02:16 PM PDT

Open APIs: fundamentals and the cases of KEGG and Wikipedia « petermr's blog

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 02:16 PM PDT

On-line survey on scientific information in the digital age

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 02:14 PM PDT

 
On-line survey on scientific information in the digital age
www.openscholarship.org
Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) released its submission to the EC's public consultation on on scientific information in the digital age.

Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 02:09 PM PDT

 
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru
The Indian Institute of Horticultural Research in Bengaluru adopted an OA mandate. "For institutional record-keeping, research asset management, and performance-evaluation purposes (wherever applicable), and in order to maximize the visibility, accessibility, usage and impact of our Institute's research output, our Institute's researchers are mandated by the Competent Authority, to deposit the final, peer-reviewed, accepted drafts of all their journal articles, conference papers and accepted theses into our Institute's institutional repository to be maintained by the ARIS CELL, immediately upon acceptance for publication...."

Repositórios e OpenAIRE: apoiar os investigadores no cumprimento das políticas europeias de Open Access 4 days ago

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:55 PM PDT

Letter regarding open access self-archiving at Johns Hopkins

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:53 PM PDT

 
Letter regarding open access self-archiving at Johns Hopkins
sinophibe.blogspot.com
"The following is a letter that I just sent to some faculty and staff at Johns Hopkins University, regarding their policies about open access, their instititutional repository, and whether or not they have a mandate in place requiring their researchers to self-archive their work...."

ePub format available from 2011!

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:56 PM PDT

 
ePub format available from 2011!
www.pathobiologyofaging.net
Co-Action Publishing has started publishing its articles in ePub format for mobile devices (alongside other formats). The announcement is from one Co-Action journal but seems to be general and to apply to all Co-Action journals.

The copyright revolution at US art museums | Tyler Green: Modern Art Notes | ARTINFO.com

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:52 PM PDT

 
The copyright revolution at US art museums | Tyler Green: Modern Art Notes | ARTINFO.com
blogs.artinfo.com
"Every once and a while an art museum (or two or three) does something so jaw-droppingly clever that in hindsight it seems like an obvious thing to do. So it is with the decision by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum and various entities at Yale University to make high-resolution images of art from their collections available for anyone to use, for any purpose, copyright-free. (At Yale special credit goes to the Yale Center for British Art, which got out ahead of the rest of the school’s similar efforts.) ..."

The OER Turn

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:30 PM PDT

 
The OER Turn
Amber Thomas
Information Environment Team, (16 Sep 2011)

ARL Policy Notes, About those orphans

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:22 PM PDT

 
ARL Policy Notes, About those orphans
policynotes.arl.org
"In the days since they filed a wide-ranging lawsuit against research libraries over their collaboration with Google and the nascent Orphan Works Project, the Authors Guild has dropped several clever blog posts walking through the orphan candidates list to see if they can find rights holders. While this kind of collaboration is exactly what HathiTrust and its partners had in mind when they posted the list, the Michigan Library has announced they are suspending the project so they can improve the search process in light of the information the Guild is finding. As Michigan says in its statement, this iteration is a salutary part of the process and does nothing to discredit the underlying goal of identifying and surfacing neglected works. It is important to remember a few [6] things as the project re-tools...."

Defining ‘Library’

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:21 PM PDT

 
Defining ‘Library’
www.publishersweekly.com
"This is a discussion we must all have together. Our future library will be the product of a shared struggle. Factions will not always agree; our arguments may be vehement. Yet if we communicate with respect and without fear, then our hope for a future with greater access to more information, for more people, and with more participation, may be realized. How we envision a literate and informed society determines how we make our laws and shape our covenants. We must choose with care, brick by brick, the height of the walls that we place around the sharing of our knowledge and culture. In the choosing we will define our libraries, and ourselves, in a digital age...."

How PubGet could be better: add free open repositories. In fact, how about a good repo search site?

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:05 PM PDT

 
How PubGet could be better: add free open repositories. In fact, how about a good repo search site?
bengoldacre - secondary blog, (23 Sep 2011)
"PubGet looks fun...None of the logins in our home work on it but it's a nice idea. Here's my suggestion to improve it: journals being free to access is only one model [gold OA], the other is academics posting copies of their papers in local free access repositories where they're allowed to is another [green OA]....So how about adding free open repositories of closed papers to PubGet? ..."

SCOAP3 tendering process has started

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:01 PM PDT

 
SCOAP3 tendering process has started
SCOAP3 official website
"The SCOAP3 partnership is moving towards the implementation of its Open Access initiative. An international team of experts from institutions participating in SCOAP3 has prepared a detailed description of the peer-review and open access services that the consortium intends to purchase through high-quality peer-reviewed journals, the conditions for the provision of these services and the implications on existing licensing agreements. CERN has now issued a Market Survey for the benefit of SCOAP3. It is publicly available at: ..."

Partnership of Japanese institutions join SCOAP3

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 11:59 AM PDT

 
Partnership of Japanese institutions join SCOAP3
SCOAP3 official website
"The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), National Institute of Informatics (NII) and Coordinating Committee for Japanese University Libraries (CCJUL) have jointly established a partnership with the SCOAP3 initiative. Following the earlier support of the Japanese scientific community, KEK, NII and CCJUL have jointly pledged financial support for the Japanese share of the SCOAP3 budget envelope...."

Judge Chin Will Not Hear Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Case, “Not Related” to Google Book Settlement « INFOdocket

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 11:24 AM PDT

 
Judge Chin Will Not Hear Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Case, “Not Related” to Google Book Settlement « INFOdocket
infodocket.com
"[T]he Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (AGvHT) docket shows that last Friday Judge Denny Chin said that the orphan works case is NOT related to the Google Books Settlement case. The AGvHT case has been assigned to Judge Harold Baer...."

USAID Releases Open Data and Maps on Famine in the Horn of Africa | Development Seed

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 11:22 AM PDT

 
USAID Releases Open Data and Maps on Famine in the Horn of Africa | Development Seed
developmentseed.org
"This afternoon...USAID launched a new open data and information sharing initiative around the famine in the Horn of Africa. With this, USAID aims to take the lead in providing data to help in the response - and wants to release as much data as they can publicly so it can be easily used in relief efforts...."

About commercial publishers

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 11:13 AM PDT

 
About commercial publishers
Xi'an's Og, (19 Sep 2011)

The Transformation of Academic Publishing

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 11:11 AM PDT

“Discoverability”, “Findability”, and Alerts

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 11:06 AM PDT

 
“Discoverability”, “Findability”, and Alerts
Mark Mcguire
Mark McGuire's Blog, (19 Sep 2011)

The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books - Dan Cohen - Technology - The Atlantic

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:09 AM PDT

 
The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books - Dan Cohen - Technology - The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com
"Unlike Google, which ambitiously -- some would say recklessly -- planned to make all scanned books available in some form to the public, from "snippets" to full views, HathiTrust simply wishes to make available for scholarship older, out-of-print books whose authors and publishers cannot be located. Often called "orphan works," these books exist in an unclear realm: still technically in copyright but without identifiable rights-holders. What is very clear is that without the orphanages we call libraries, many of these works would no longer be available for scholars to read. Authors Guild v. HathiTrust is a strange legal twist. For an association of professional writers, the Guild seems to have forgotten some of the basic principles of its craft, such as not placing sympathetic figures like librarians in the role of villains. Almost comically, the Guild's press release trumpeting its lawsuit against HathiTrust augurs a dark day in the not-too-distant future when old works, including obscure Yiddish texts, are "abducted" and "released" to thousands of students and professors...."

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