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- Reply: One Big Thing Holding Open Access Back is Calling and Treating it as "Open Access Publishing"
- Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against UCLA Over Use of Streaming Video
- HathiTrust Lawsuit Highlights Authors' Fears - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- New Program to Help Scientists Share Large Data Sets
- Physics Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP
- Civil Society Update - Consultation - Right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress - Expert on Cultural Rights
- Digital Public Library of America “BetaSprint” Review Panel Announces Results
- IR+ 2.1 released
- Some Thoughts about Books and Access
| Reply: One Big Thing Holding Open Access Back is Calling and Treating it as "Open Access Publishing" Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:09 AM PDT Open Access Archivangelism, (05 Oct 2011) One of the big things holding back OA progress is calling it, thinking of it and treating it as "OA publishing." It is not. OA means providing free online access to research journal articles, but trying to reform publishing by converting the journals into OA journals ("Gold OA") is just one of the ways to provide OA, and certainly neither the simplest, the easiest, the surest, the fastest nor the most direct way. The simplest, easiest, surest, fastest and most direct way of making journal articles OA is for their authors to make them freely accessible online by self-archiving them on the web, free for all, immediately upon acceptance for publication by whatever journal they publish them in ("Green OA"). |
| Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against UCLA Over Use of Streaming Video Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:06 AM PDT chronicle.com "A judge dismissed a lawsuit on Monday that had accused the University of California at Los Angeles of copyright infringement for streaming videos online. One copyright expert thinks the UCLA decision increases the chance that the HathiTrust digital-library consortium will prevail in its effort to fight off a separate copyright lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild over the digitization of books from university libraries...." |
| HathiTrust Lawsuit Highlights Authors' Fears - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:05 AM PDT |
| New Program to Help Scientists Share Large Data Sets Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:58 AM PDT chronicle.com "The problem is that the collaboration often involves actual flights halfway around the world to load up hard drives filled with data, too much to send over conventional Internet connections. That’s exactly the kind of issue a new $8-million program from the National Science Foundation hopes to solve. The program, the DataNet Federation Consortium, involves six different research centers in an effort to make it easier and faster to access and share large and complex data sets....So the consortium will build an “infrastructure” aimed at reversing that trend. It will allow researchers to access data remotely, which is often impossible now when projects require large amounts of storage space. The new system will also create programs that automatically convert data from different fields of research—which are often in different formats—into a workable form. And it will create a set of rules and procedures for each organization to follow, to make the sharing process smoother. The grant money from the NSF will come in over a span of five years, and it will benefit scientists from hundreds of universities working in biology, hydrology, oceanography, social science, and learning behavior...." |
| Physics Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:38 PM PDT groups.google.com "The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae." Sharing half the prize is Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley. Sharing the other half jointly are Brian P. Schmidt from the Australian National University, and Adam G. Riess from Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute. AIP is pleased to make available free of charge a selection of research papers these Nobel Laureates have published in our journals, Conference Proceedings, and Physics Today magazine...." |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:36 PM PDT groups.google.com The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a "Consultation on the right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and its applications." Question 5 directly addresses OA: "What legal, administrative, policy or other measures have been adopted/are under consideration to eliminate barriers to scientific communication and collaboration, such as censorship, restrictions on access to the Internet or on free availability of scientific literature and journals?" Responses are due by November 25, 2011. |
| Digital Public Library of America “BetaSprint” Review Panel Announces Results Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:30 PM PDT groups.google.com "The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee has invited the creators of the following submissions to the DPLA Beta Sprint..., an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA might operate, to present at the public plenary meeting...taking place on October 21, 2011 in Washington, DC...." |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:28 PM PDT groups.google.com "The University of Rochester is pleased to announce the release of its open source institutional repository, IR+, version 2.1...." |
| Some Thoughts about Books and Access Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:02 PM PDT In the Middle, (04 Oct 2011) "So I'm a big fan of open access publishing, of presses like re.press and punctum that publish in print (for a reasonable fee) and allow quick, free downloading. I wish more presses followed this model, or at least enabled easy access to e-versions of books (Ohio State University Press, home of the promising Interventions series, requires that you order a CD for $9.95 and have it mailed to you to obtain an electronic book). I have no idea what the contours of the publishing landscape will resemble in the years ahead, but I am reasonably certain that the future is with Minnesota, re.press and punctum rather than the $90 books of Palgrave, Brill, D. S. Brewer, Ashgate, and so on...." |
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