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- Boston Library Consortium (BLC) adds author rights language
- Guest Post: Keeping up the Momentum: Breaking the Stop Start Cycle of Repository Use « Repositories Support Project
- Our Open Access Flyer Goes Global: 4 New Translations Mark a Milestone in Growth of Student Advocacy
- The future of AAA publishing: Opening a conversation
- Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs
- Building Institutional Repositories in Bangladesh Using Dspace: A New Paradigm of Scholarly Communication
- 2ND INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE LAUNCHED IN KNUST
- CANADIAN FEDERATION OF STUDENTS | Graduate Students Support Open Access to Academic Research
- Open Access Week observance underway : 26th oct11 ~ E-Pao! Headlines
- Guest Post: Hull and White Rose Research Online « Repositories Support Project
- Faculty work to be made publicly available | Kansan.com
- Editorial: Making research accessible - The Brown Daily Herald - Serving the community daily since 1891
- University of Florida News – UF pushes access for scholarship
- Northeastern University Libraries Host Open Access Week
- Content as Commodity — Price Elasticity and New Business Models
- Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access | Royal Society
- A National Digital Public Library Begins to Take Shape - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Steve Jobs Had Hopes of Disrupting Textbook Market - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
| Boston Library Consortium (BLC) adds author rights language Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:48 AM PDT Author Rights Model License Language, (27 Oct 2011) "According to the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), on September 30, 2011 the BLC Board of Directors unanimously accepted the recommendation of the BLC Scholarly Communication Priority Committee” and adopted the Author Rights Model Language, as represented in the NERL (North East Research Libraries Consortium) model contract. In an email to the BLC membership, the BLC Board of Directors said: “In essence, the Directors committed the BLC and their institutions to good faith attempts to insert this language into new serials contracts and into serials contracts renewals.” According to the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), on September 30, 2011 the BLC Board of Directors unanimously accepted the recommendation of the BLC Scholarly Communication Priority Committee” and adopted the Author Rights Model Language, as represented in the NERL (North East Research Libraries Consortium) model contract...." |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:39 AM PDT rspproject.wordpress.com "Like many repositories the Kent Academic Repository (KAR) is experiencing something of a mid-life crisis. Established in May 2006, it played an important role in the University of Kent’s submission for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2008. KAR remains the most complete record Kent’s research outputs and is heavily used by a number of Schools. However there are others who prefer to record their publications through internal databases and to make the full text available through subject repositories...." |
| Our Open Access Flyer Goes Global: 4 New Translations Mark a Milestone in Growth of Student Advocacy Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:37 AM PDT Right to Research Coalition - Full Feed, (25 Oct 2011) "In a tangible demonstration of the Right to Research Coalition’s now global presence, we’re excited to kick off Open Access Week with translations of our Open Access Flyer in 4 new languages: Arabic, French, Polish, and Spanish. These translations will not only help students continue to advocate for and educate their peers about Open Access, but they also represent a milestone in the growth of our coalition...." |
| The future of AAA publishing: Opening a conversation Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:35 AM PDT American Anthropological Association, (18 Oct 2011) "The Committee for the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing, better known as CFPEP, has invited me to start a discussion thread about how the AAA can best manage its diverse publications in response to a publishing environment undergoing radical change. CFPEP invites your thoughts on strategies for keeping AAA publications as widely accessible as possible while maintaining a sustainable business plan.... What questions should CFPEP be asking? Where should the AAA publishing wing be in five years? Ten? How can we make attractive, academically rigorous journals available to the widest possible audience without committing financial suicide? ..." |
| Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:55 AM PDT 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, (14 Sep 2011) From the Abstract: Given the pressure of reading more in less time, today’s users demand access to various formats regardless of temporal and spatial restrictions and the types of devices used. Digital curation is the active management of any type of digital resource through its entire life-cycle, from creation and active use, to preservation and re-use. ETDs are a highly specialized collection that demands a more specialized treatment and characterization to better capture the semantic relations of the underlying concepts. Over the past year, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries have put forth great effort in making digital collections more accessible and useful in research processes. This paper discusses UNT’s ETDs curatorial activities including how ETDs users can benefit from desiccated versions, traditionally discussed only in a digital preservation context. |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:40 AM PDT Library Philosophy and Practice, (Oct 2011) From the Conclusion: Open access facilitates the availability and distribution of scholarly communication freely, as a means and effort to solve the problem of inaccessibility, primarily due to financial constraints, especially in developing countries. In Bangladesh, there has been a gradual realization of the usefulness of open access among various institutions. A few open access initiatives have been undertaken and are operational, and some are still in the developmental stage. The future of open access in Bangladesh is dependent upon a proper policy and establishment of appropriate framework. In the implementation of open access, library and information science professionals of Bangladesh should play a proactive role in the growth of collections in IR. |
| 2ND INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE LAUNCHED IN KNUST Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:26 PM PDT Technology, (26 Oct 2011) "BioMed Central in partnership with Computer Aid Foundation have organised a two- day Open Access Africa Conference at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Currently, Sub- Saharan Africa remains the least developed region of the world in the area of research. This is partly attributed to inability of research centres in developing countries to pay for the high cost of online journal access as well as subscriptions to print versions. It is in this regard that BioMed Central, a UK based open access publisher has launched a campaign to address this problem in ensuring the widespread dissemination of scientific research with a set of initiatives designed to encourage African researchers to publish their work in open access journals. Through Open Access, users will have no subscription barriers to journals and full advantage of the internet can be utilised to allow universal access to these journals...." |
| CANADIAN FEDERATION OF STUDENTS | Graduate Students Support Open Access to Academic Research Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:25 PM PDT www.newswire.ca "This week Canadian graduate students joined with their international counterparts in celebrating the fifth annual Open Access Week. Open Access publishing, under which publicly funded research results are freely accessible to other researchers and the public, is an alternative to the pay-per-read model. "Graduate students support Open Access publishing and no-barrier access to scientific and academic research results," said Kimalee Phillip, Chairperson of the National Graduate Caucus. "The principles of Open Access are aligned with our values of access to high quality, peer-reviewed scholarly publications regardless of an individual's wealth or location." Graduate students will be working with campus librarians to build support for Open Access repositories and institutional grants to support students and faculty that publish in Open Access journals. As part of Open Access Week Graduate students are hosting panel discussions, workshops, movie screenings, forums and other events to raise awareness of issues with the current academic publishing industry...." |
| Open Access Week observance underway : 26th oct11 ~ E-Pao! Headlines Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:57 PM PDT e-pao.net "As in other parts of the world, observance of International Open Access Week in Manipur kicked off yesterday under the joint aegis of Manipur Library Association (MALA) and DOEACC Centre, Imphal...." |
| Guest Post: Hull and White Rose Research Online « Repositories Support Project Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:53 PM PDT rspproject.wordpress.com "My proposal for a ‘buddy’ visit had been around wanting to find out more from those who have developed repository policies/mandates and also in issues around governance of their repository, including how those policies are embedded. I had no particular institution in mind so it was suggested that we could visit the University of Leeds who are one of the partners in White Rose Research Online (WRRO) and White Rose eTheses online repositories (WREO) along with the universities of York and Sheffield. While admitting they were not especially strong on policies we decided that it would still be a useful visit and it turned out to be a good general exchange of experience...." |
| Faculty work to be made publicly available | Kansan.com Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:25 PM PDT www.kansan.com "Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access Monday to renew its promise to make scholarly work available. The policy requires KU faculty to publish their work to a public database. Instead of having to purchase journals, the public can now read KU faculty members’ work for free...." |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:24 PM PDT www.browndailyherald.com "Will Brown join the ranks of some 135 institutions with open-access research mandates? As University officials investigate this possibility, we direct their attention to Brown's mission: "To serve the community, the nation and the world by discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry." Open-access research policies are in line with our mission, and we can better serve the community, nation and world by making research findings available to everyone...." |
| University of Florida News – UF pushes access for scholarship Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:23 PM PDT |
| Northeastern University Libraries Host Open Access Week Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:00 AM PDT www.lib.neu.edu During the week of October 24-28, Northeastern University Libraries will host a series of events to celebrate open access – the support of free, immediate, online access to scholarly research. Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the benefits of open access. The events will cover a range of topics including open collaboration in the sciences, the effects of Wikipedia and social networking on student research, open access works by Northeastern faculty, free and open college textbooks, and data gathering and storage needs of grad students. |
| Content as Commodity — Price Elasticity and New Business Models Posted: 26 Oct 2011 08:53 AM PDT The Scholarly Kitchen, (26 Oct 2011) "There is no way to charge someone more by stating that their content is marginal and therefore requires a higher fee, just as there no way to charge someone less because their content is truly very good. Instead, OA publishers have to compete on venue quality, and that gets to branding and publisher reputation....To me, OA publishing looks much more like a commodity, cost-based market than a well-differentiated value-based market....Publishing as a commodity introduces elasticity — the lower the price, the more authors you attract, and the better your business. With that working in their favor, prices for OA publishing should start trending down as the number of outlets increase. And, with that mechanism at its heart, high-volume OA publishing seems structurally inescapable...." |
| Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access | Royal Society Posted: 26 Oct 2011 08:47 AM PDT royalsociety.org "The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available....The move is being made as part of the Royal Society’s ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing. Opening of the archive is being timed to coincide with Open Access Week, and also comes soon after the Royal Society announced its first ever fully open access journal, Open Biology...." |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2011 08:42 AM PDT chronicle.com "The Digital Public Library of America doesn't exist yet, but it's closer to becoming a reality. At an energized meeting held here [Washington DC] at the National Archives on Friday, representatives from top cultural institutions and public and research libraries expressed robust support for the proposed library, which would create a portal to allow the public to get easy online access to collections held at many different institutions. Two foundations said they would together give $5-million in grant money to help get it up and running by April 2013. A major European digital library announced it will work with its planned American counterpart to make their technical structures compatible. And nine technology teams showcased online frameworks they built for a "beta sprint" contest to develop ideas for the technical framework the library will require...." |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2011 08:40 AM PDT chronicle.com "The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had discussed plans to shake up the textbook industry, including an effort that would have included free textbooks with iPads, according to a biography released this week. “Jobs had his sights set on textbooks as the next business he wanted to transform,” says a passage in the new book, Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson. It notes that Jobs said he had met with several major textbook publishers, including Pearson. It appears that his primary focus was on the K-12 textbook market. “The process by which states certify textbooks is corrupt,” Mr. Jobs is quoted as saying. “But if we can make the textbooks free, and they come with the iPad, then they don’t have to be certified. The crappy economy at the state level will last for a decade, and we can give them an opportunity to circumvent that whole process and save money.” ..." |
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