Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Voynich Manuscript online - Boing Boing
- Open Access: Good for Readers, Authors, and Journals
- A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies
- Information Obesity: Too Big Too Know and ways to deal with Open Access to everything | MalariaWorld
- Update on responses about (1) continuing the Forum (2) Richard Poynder as new moderator
- Harvard Open Access Policy Benchmark Needed
| Voynich Manuscript online - Boing Boing Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:41 AM PST boingboing.net Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has put complete high resolution scans of the enigmatic, undeciphered Voynich Manuscript online. |
| Open Access: Good for Readers, Authors, and Journals Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:23 AM PST UKnowledge, University of Kentucky, (14 Nov 2011) In Bloomberg Law Reports: Student Edition 2.4 (2011): 13-15, November 14, 2011. Abstract/conclusion: Readers, authors, and even law journal publishers will all achieve their different but related interests by adopting open access principles. Readers of every kind will have more efficient access to the materials they need to pursue their intellectual and informational goals; authors will see their works read and cited by a broader audience; and law reviews and journals can raise their own profiles without injuring their revenue streams from fee-based sources. Open access works for everyone, and is the future of information creation and distribution. |
| A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:28 AM PST Portal 12 (1), (2012) Preview version, accepted for publication and copy edited. Abstract: This article reviews the history of open access (OA) policies and examines the current status of mandate policy implementations. It finds that hundreds of policies have been proposed and adopted at various organizational levels and many of them have shown a positive effect on the rate of repository content accumulation. However, it also detects policies showing little or no visible impact on repository development, and attempts to analyze the effects of different types of policies, with varied levels of success. It concludes that an open access mandate policy, by itself, will not change existing practices of scholarly self-archiving. |
| Information Obesity: Too Big Too Know and ways to deal with Open Access to everything | MalariaWorld Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:28 AM PST malariaworld.org A Road to Open Science Posted by tomolijhoek (who is an author) with 1 comment on Tue Nov 29 2011 at 09:28 UTC | info | related |
| Update on responses about (1) continuing the Forum (2) Richard Poynder as new moderator Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:35 PM PST listserver.sigmaxi.org Straw vote so far unanimous for continuing the American Scientist Open Access Forum under the new moderatorship of Richard Poynder. |
| Harvard Open Access Policy Benchmark Needed Posted: 28 Nov 2011 05:28 PM PST Open Access Archivangelism, (29 Nov 2011) It is important to calculate what percentage of the total annual refereed journal article output of Harvard (participating Faculties) is represented by the c. 6457 deposits to date in Harvard's DASH Repository since adoption of Harvard's OA Policy? That is the objective measure of the success of an OA policy, and hence of whether it provides a model ready for other universities to emulate -- or whether it still needs some tweaks (e.g., to make it more like the U. Liege ID/OA policy, which (1) requires immediate deposit with no waiver, (2) only requests (but does not require) that the deposit be made immediately OA, (3) designates repository deposit as the sole means of submitting journal articles for research performance review, and has generated 67,631 deposits to date). The global baseline rate of making articles OA (without any OA policy) is about 20% (varying by discipline). The target is of course 100%. And about 60% is a benchmark, because that is the percentage of journals that already endorse immediate OA deposit (hence do not require Harvard-style rights retention in order to make deposits OA immediately). It is extremely important to get a clear idea of exactly how well Harvard's policy is doing after nearly 4 years: If the deposit rate is near 100%, it is doing as well as or better than all other kinds of OA mandates. If it is close to 60%, that's still good, but it's not clear whether its rights-retention clause is the cause, or its deposit clause. And if it's closer to 20%, then Harvard's deposit clause is not working and needs upgrading to ID/OA. This is all the more important since it is the Harvard model that other universities are likely to follow, come what may. |
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