Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Mexico's Largest University to Post Online Nearly All Publications and Course Materials - Global - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- SAGE Choice: a critique
- Open Access Africa 2011: Speaker presentations, images and poster abstracts available online
- Journals changing publisher, but can the rights change as well?
- Open Access Week Exhibit 2011 — UW Libraries
- Library pushes for open access | The Daily Utah Chronicle
- American Heart Association and Wiley-Blackwell Launch Open Access Journal for Heart Disease and Stroke - MarketWatch
- Virginia Henderson Library repository launched
- Open Repository in the USA: The University of Arizona’s repository
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PST chronicle.com "The National Autonomous University of Mexico, better known as UNAM, has said it will make virtually all of its publications, databases, and course materials freely available on the Internet over the next few years—a move that some academics speculated could push other universities in the region to follow suit....They also said it was key to UNAM's social mission as a public institution: providing educational resources to populations usually underrepresented in the university system—really, to anyone who desires access to them. "As the national university, we must assume a national mission and give back to society what we are doing with its financial support," said Imanol Ordorika, a professor of social sciences and education at UNAM and a key force behind the effort. "That means providing open access and being accountable and transparent." ...But he said it would include all magazines and periodicals published by UNAM, and, if negotiations with outside publishers went well, all research published by UNAM employees. He also said the university would provide online access to all theses and dissertations as well as materials for its approximately 300 undergraduate and graduate courses...." |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:21 PM PST The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics Critique of SAGE Choice. Recommends that authors, libraries and funding agencies avoid paying for SAGE Choice, and consider publishing in journals of other publishers with better support for open access (whether OA journals or subscription journals with better green OA policies). |
| Open Access Africa 2011: Speaker presentations, images and poster abstracts available online Posted: 15 Nov 2011 02:03 PM PST BioMed Central, (11 Nov 2011) "Open Access Africa 2011, a BioMed Central and Computer Aid International event, was hosted at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, during Open Access Week 2011. All presentations, delivered by representatives from Google, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Department for International Development (DFID), Pan African Medical Journal and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), are now available online, together with conference images and poster abstracts. Videos of all presentations will follow shortly...." |
| Journals changing publisher, but can the rights change as well? Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:15 PM PST WoW! Wouter on the Web, (14 Nov 2011) Journals change publishers, but the rights should remain those at the moment of publishing. |
| Open Access Week Exhibit 2011 — UW Libraries Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:44 AM PST www.lib.washington.edu "The images at left are select posters from the exhibit in the Allen Library lobby [at the U of Washington]...." |
| Library pushes for open access | The Daily Utah Chronicle Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST www.dailyutahchronicle.com "The library [at the U of Utah] has made $10,000 of general funding available to applicants who would like their journals published to open-access sources. The library had its first round of funding in May, and eight out of 19 applicants were published, Mower said. The authors of the published articles included U graduate students and researchers...." |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:51 AM PST www.marketwatch.com "The American Heart Association (AHA) and Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced an innovative venture to publish a new open access journal, Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, which will launch this fall. Journal of the American Heart Association will serve as the first online-only open access journal for the AHA, and joins the AHA's prestigious portfolio of 11 peer-reviewed print and online subscription-based scientific journals...." |
| Virginia Henderson Library repository launched Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:50 AM PST Open Repository, (01 Nov 2011) "The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library (VHL) is the latest Open Repository customer to have launched their repository at the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Biennial Convention in Texas last Saturday, 29th October...." |
| Open Repository in the USA: The University of Arizona’s repository Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:49 AM PST Open Repository, (09 Nov 2011) "Open Repository is pleased to announce its first institutional US customer, the University of Arizona...." |
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