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- Guest Post: A repository journey for the creative arts « Repositories Support Project
- Focus on Open Access at the University of the West of England « Repositories Support Project
- UKCoRR Open Access Week Activities 2011
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- Open Access in Archivalia via Google
- Scholarly communication in crisis: early draft of thesis chapter
- Urheberrechtsinformationen in Archivalia
- Open-Access-Woche geht zuende
- Open-Access-Themenheft der Kunstchronik 2007 - alle Beiträge stehen Open Access zur...
- Internet: “Free flow of information and access for all” – UN expert
- Michael Nielsen, Open access to scientific papers, a summary of the state of play | Hacker News
- Librarians inform public of access rights - USU Statesman - Utah State University
- University signs Berlin 9 open access agreement
- OER in the field: institutions solving problems openly | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
- UK Royal Society to Provide Free Online Access to Scientific Journal Archives
- Universities without borders: do we need campuses in the age of Open CourseWare?
- Elsevier and EarthChem Announce Linking Collaboration
- KNUST to sign Berlin Declaration on Open Access
- Age of Internet heightens role | ajc.com
- COMMUNIA policy paper on the proposed orphan works directive
- Information & Guidance » UK Open Access Implementation Group
- William Nixon: University of Glasgow's resource Pack for Open Access and Institutional repositories - YouTube
- How can universities support economic growth and innovation? Take the open road
- JISC Collections Open Access Fees Project: Final Report, Submitted to OAIG Sep 2011
| Guest Post: A repository journey for the creative arts « Repositories Support Project Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:45 AM PDT rspproject.wordpress.com "This guest post is authored by Kim Coles, Information Assistant (Digital Collections), Royal Holloway, University of London. As announced last week, during October 2011 the RSP sponsored ten UK repository staff ‘buddy visits’ as part of our Open Access Week initiative. Further information available from here. Kim visited University College Falmouth who are currently designing an institutional repository which will be connected to their online research community...." |
| Focus on Open Access at the University of the West of England « Repositories Support Project Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:44 AM PDT rspproject.wordpress.com "As part of Open Access week, yesterday I presented at a lunchtime session at the University of Western England (my slides are below) as part of a week of activies. The attendees were an even mix of academic and library staff which made for a lively discussion. I was very impressed by the high level of support for the repository and the engagement of the staff at UWE. I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion – it’s a real treat to delve into the issues that are critical in making OA really work. So thanks to those who took part and to Anna Lawson and Alex Clarke (the repository team) for inviting me. I’ve summarised the issues below: ..." |
| UKCoRR Open Access Week Activities 2011 Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:42 AM PDT UK Council of Research Repositories, (24 Oct 2011) "This week is open access week, and to celebrate UKCoRR hopes to collate together what our membership is up to. If you're a UKCoRR member and you have a news article or blog post online about your activities, email the Chair with the link and details, and we'll add it to the list below...." |
| Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:48 AM PDT berkeleyearth.org This is the dataset created by Richard Muller, formerly a leading climate skeptic, which led him to change his mind, confirm the previous climate-change consensus, and affirm that previous climate researchers had been careful and honest. <http://goo.gl/hmFD2> |
| Open Access in Archivalia via Google Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:59 AM PDT |
| Scholarly communication in crisis: early draft of thesis chapter Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:25 AM PDT pages.cmns.sfu.ca Summary This chapter provides theoretical background for understanding why open access is necessary. Scholarly communication at present is a complex system characterized by expansion of capitalism into scholarly publishing and a process of rationalization that at times leads to irrational results in conflict with the basic goals or values of scholars. The increasing enclosure of knowledge and information through the concept of intellectual property is key in the process of commodification of resources once considered a classical public good as nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. Alternatives identified to date include the commons, cooperative approaches, open access and emerging new publishers such as libraries. |
| Urheberrechtsinformationen in Archivalia Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:18 AM PDT |
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| Open-Access-Themenheft der Kunstchronik 2007 - alle Beiträge stehen Open Access zur... Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:35 AM PDT Archivalia, (30 Oct 2011) |
| Internet: “Free flow of information and access for all” – UN expert Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:19 AM PDT www.ohchr.org "The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, Frank La Rue, urged Governments to guarantee the free flow of information on the Internet, and to ensure that the Internet is made widely available, accessible and affordable to all...." [From the report itself:] "The importance of the Internet as an educational tool needs to be properly recognized. It provides access to a vast and expanding source of knowledge, supplements or transforms traditional forms of schooling and makes, through “open access” and active initiatives, previously unaffordable scholarly research available to people in developing States. … Therefore, the Special Rapporteur believes that access to the Internet will progressively be a key element of the right to education...." |
| Michael Nielsen, Open access to scientific papers, a summary of the state of play | Hacker News Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:07 AM PDT news.ycombinator.com "As a result of policies like these [at Harvard, MIT, Princeton], in years to come you should see more and more freely downloadable papers showing up in search results. Note that there are a lot of differences of detail in the different policies, and those details can make a big difference to the practical impact of the policies. I won't try to summarize all the nuances here, I'm merely pointing out that there is a lot of institutional movement...." |
| Librarians inform public of access rights - USU Statesman - Utah State University Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT www.usustatesman.com "The public's right to knowledge, along with the process and limitations through which people can obtain knowledge through academic journals, was discussed by a panel Wednesday. Members of the Cache community came together for International Open Access Week to discuss reasons to take action on the issue of open records access...." |
| University signs Berlin 9 open access agreement Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:27 AM PDT The University Daily Kansan stories, (27 Oct 2011) "The University [of Kansas] is making international news – this time not for its discoveries, but rather for the availability of its research. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little recently signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities (Berlin 9), which affirms that Kansas researchers’ findings are available to the public. The University of Kansas is the first public university to have an open-access policy to information, and one of the first American universities to sign the Berlin 9. Other signatories include Harvard, Duke and Oregon...." |
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| UK Royal Society to Provide Free Online Access to Scientific Journal Archives Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:25 AM PDT Latest ITProPortal news, (27 Oct 2011) "The world-famous U.K. Royal Society's historic journal archive on scientific articles will soon be available to the public for free online. The popular journal is enriched with articles written by some of the greatest minds in human history and now, it will be available to everyone. The archives include the scientific journal, which was the first ever peer-reviewed journal, with 60,000 scientific papers of historic importance and also various papers published almost 70 years ago...." |
| Universities without borders: do we need campuses in the age of Open CourseWare? Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:24 AM PDT theconversation.edu.au |
| Elsevier and EarthChem Announce Linking Collaboration Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:23 AM PDT www.prnewswire.com "Elsevier...and EarthChem, a portal facilitating discovery and accessibility of a consortium of databases, today announced they have implemented two-way linking between their respective Earth Sciences content....Elsevier-published research articles from 32 journals, hosted on SciVerse ScienceDirect will be automatically linked to the corresponding [OA] research datasets in the EarthChem portal, and vice versa, starting with the titles Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Chemical Geology, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, and Lithos. The EarthChem portal provides access to data from federated community databases, namely PetDB, MetPetDB, SedDB, NAVDAT, and GEOROC, as well as unpublished data from the USGS and the GANSEKI database of the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC. Elsevier is the first publisher to offer direct linking from a scientific article to an EarthChem dataset...." |
| KNUST to sign Berlin Declaration on Open Access Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT www.businessghana.com "Professor William Otto Ellis, Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) , on Thursday said the educational institution had decided to sign onto the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to scientific knowledge...." |
| Age of Internet heightens role | ajc.com Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:16 AM PDT www.ajc.com "Not only are libraries facing the enormous challenges of collecting and preserving digital records, they also are exploring opportunities to share research through Open Access, a global movement to provide free access to research to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. Government already has recognized the importance of information sharing. In 2008, Congress passed into law the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy to ensure that the public has access to the published results of NIH-funded research. The public can access journal articles from PubMed Central, a free archive of biomedical journal literature at the National Library of Medicine. Meanwhile, much of the research produced by universities is published in subscription journals, which many people cannot afford. The Open Access movement among university libraries and funding agencies aims to make this research more accessible to everyone. Why would universities want to make research results available to you? It’s pretty simple. The enduring goal of a university is to create and generate knowledge, and to do that you have to share what you know...." |
| COMMUNIA policy paper on the proposed orphan works directive Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:12 AM PDT International Communia Association, (27 Oct 2011) "Today the COMMUNIA International Association presents its first policy paper. The paper analyzes the European Commission’s proposed directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works (COM/2011/0289) in the light of its effects on the Public Domain. The paper contains suggestions for improving the directive to make it more suitable to the stated objective of increasing access to cultural heritage material that is currently locked away by a dysfunctional copyright system...." |
| Information & Guidance » UK Open Access Implementation Group Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:10 AM PDT open-access.org.uk "In support of the aims of the OAIG, to provide “accurate information about Open Access and the relevant work of its members to the sector and more widely.” this resource pack provides guidance on key aspects of Open Access, links to recommended resources and advice for action across 7 major themes for repositories. This guidance draws on a wide range of national and information which has been reviewed and selected by Open Access advocates in the UK...." |
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| How can universities support economic growth and innovation? Take the open road Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT "The Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research report (PDF) and the Open Access Fees Report show the outcomes of research into the benefits of open access to commercial companies and findings from a consultation on the practicalities of paying for open access publication. Taken together, these present a major step towards releasing UK research to underpin the nation’s prospects for growth both now, via direct innovation, and into the future, via a more efficient and effective research infrastructure. Professor Martin Hall vice-chancellor at the University of Salford and chair of the OAIG says, “The report ‘Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research’ shows how commercial companies would benefit from reduced costs, less time wasting, and shortened development cycles by having greater access to UK research outputs....Open access requires action by universities, funders and publishers to work together to make this happen. The OAIG has commissioned JISC Collections to produce an ‘Open Access Fees Report’ which consulted with these groups and other organisations on the arrangements whereby payment is made for open access publication....A new repositories resource pack is also being launched today to help universities take immediate action to support wider access to UK research, by ensuring that as much of their research output as possible is made openly available via their institutional repository. The resource pack brings together all the information and guidance that UK universities might need in taking the policy decisions and practical steps for this to happen...." |
| JISC Collections Open Access Fees Project: Final Report, Submitted to OAIG Sep 2011 Posted: 30 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT open-access.org.uk "2.1 From interviews with the principle stakeholders and from feedback at the workshop, it is clear that lack of awareness of funding for OA article processing charges and difficulties in accessing the funding are the main barriers in the UK to authors taking up this option. 2.2 Funders, other than those already actively engaged with this process, need to become involved by making funds readily available and by creating clear, consistent, implementable and unambiguous mandates. 2.3 The process of paying OA article-processing charges as part of indirect costs is not perceived to be efficient, effective or useful. Funders need to consider alternative approaches – such as those used by The Wellcome Trust or the British Heart Foundation, where clearly defined pots of money are made available – if they are to successfully fund, track and audit how and where their investment is being spent. A “one size fits all” model is not what is being proposed here; more that administrative rigour, clear process and transparency are necessary regardless of the size and profile of the funder. 2.4 Currently, because some authors do not have funding to publish or have not been made aware of how to obtain this funding, hybrid OA will remain a minority activity until such time as this situation is rectified. 2.5 It was not just publishers who made the case for change in this area. Librarians who were interviewed for this study argued that there is no scope for moving money around to other pots. They also stressed that universities have procedures in place to manage funds made available by the Wellcome Trust, so can be expected to manage other funds in a similar way....There needs to be a more joined-up approach between the Research Councils, other funders and individual HEIs in terms of the way funds for OA article-processing fees are communicated and made available and, based on the responses from librarians interviewed for this study, this should start by addressing practical, workflow issues and the idea of putting policy into practice. A forum for discussions on the practical implementation of OA funding should be formed. To increase awareness of the availability of funding for OA article-processing fees and to ensure that authors understand the process for claiming these funds, funders should revise the information provided on their websites and make clearer in proposal submission guidance and grant letters what process should be followed. Funders, HEIs and HEFCE need to consider how the author proposal submission process that incorporates TRAC could be amended to make clear that an author is requesting OA funding and to help develop an audit trail...." |
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