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- ETDs & Interlibrary loans: a collaborative partnership
- WVU libraries celebrate international open access - News - The Daily Athenaeum - West Virginia University
- Federal Register, Volume 76 Issue 214 (Friday, November 4, 2011)
- A case study at the University of Southampton
- Demystifying open access
- Web2Rights - How Open Are You? ?
- Open Access and undergraduate research
- AoB Blog » Open Access Plant Science – Every Week of the Year
- Open Access Week event at U. Arizona: Reproducibility, Open Data
- New digital repository to make scholarly research available to public / Featured Stories - FSU.com
- COAR » News & Discussion
- University of Cape Town signs the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge
- JISC - University of Salford Open Access Case Study - YouTube
- Neuer Leitfaden erschienen: Open Data – Freigabe von Daten aus Bibliothekskatalogen
- total-Impact
- ViewShare.org: Create and Share Interfaces to Our Digital Cultural Heritage
- Developments in Cultural Data
- Global Open Access Portal | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time
- DSpace Open Access repository development in Africa: Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe - Open Access Week
- Open-source cancer research [video] | @GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk
- Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field | Techdirt
| ETDs & Interlibrary loans: a collaborative partnership Posted: 05 Nov 2011 07:11 AM PDT |
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| Federal Register, Volume 76 Issue 214 (Friday, November 4, 2011) Posted: 04 Nov 2011 04:53 PM PDT |
| A case study at the University of Southampton Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:27 PM PDT "At the University of Southampton researchers, academics, service providers and senior management have been working together for ten years in a partnership to underpin an “open” approach to research and learning resources based on the repository model. Innovative research at the School of Electronics and Computer Science set out the technical building blocks for making research available on open access. As a next step, the JISC- funded TARDis project (Targeting Academic Research for Dissemination and Disclosure) successfully brought together internal departments - the Library, the University Computing Service and the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Research Group within Electronics and Computer Science. Together, they committed to support an institutional strategy for making scholarly communication both more visible and more accessible. This partnership approach remains key and has allowed Southampton to extend open access into other areas including the learning repository. At institutional level the value of the research repository has been strongly identified with the University’s strategies for the RAE/REF, and with the institutional response to meeting funder mandates. The University of Southampton became the first university in the UK to adopt a formal requirement that all academic staff make access to their published research available online through the institutional repository. Senior management support has been crucial as has been the promotion of the benefits to the author. Institutional strategy often means less to individual academics and researchers than how the services provide benefits to them. It is therefore important to link open access to the research and learning process, and to the benefits of increasing visibility. A pragmatic approach combined with a strongly visible support service has underpinned the way in which open access has been developed institutionally at Southampton. The University’s main priorities going forward are to increase the amount of open content by encouraging the direct deposit of postprints in the research repository and increasing the range of material across disciplines in the learning repository. In parallel Southampton will experiment with scoping options to link access to research data initially at metadata level...." |
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| Web2Rights - How Open Are You? ? Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:25 PM PDT www.web2rights.com "Using this Wizard will help the user to assess...The readiness of their organisation to release resources under Creative Commons (CC) licences and other open content licences [and] which areas of activity across their organisation are CC or equivalent ready, and what they can do to improve their organisation's proposed “open” activities. This Wizard is aimed at project managers or resource producers in JISC funded Open Educational Resources (OER) projects, and supports Section 11 of the JISC Terms and Conditions of Funding, which requires an open approach to the licensing of OER. It will however, have a wider applicability in any public sector/not for profit organisation releasing content under CC licences and other open content licences, both nationally and internationally...." |
| Open Access and undergraduate research Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:06 PM PDT University Library Blog, (28 Oct 2011) "The benefits of Open Access scholarly publishing (the principle that scholarly works should be available for free online) for faculty researchers may seem obvious: broader exposure for the research they publish, and faster and easier access to the materials they need. Open Access has benefits for undergraduate researchers as well, though...." |
| AoB Blog » Open Access Plant Science – Every Week of the Year Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:05 PM PDT aobblog.com "This week is Open Acess Week, the annual event celebrating the global movement towards Open Access (OA) to research and scholarship. Here at AoB Blog we try to do our bit to make current research in plant science accessible and interesting to a wide audience, but the Annals of Botany Company goes way beyond that in publishing AoB PLANTS, an online internationally peer reviewed open-access journal publishing high quality papers on all aspects of plant biology – that are free for anyone to read, anywhere in the world. It costs a surprising amount of money to produce a high quality research journal, but Annals of Botany keeps publication charges lower than most similar journals, and we maintain our other reader- and author-friendly policies for all our contributors, including no page charges for authors, authors retaining copyright on all their work, free access to many review articles, increasing amounts of editorial material including ContentSnapshots, Plant Cuttings, and book reviews, wide free distribution of Special Issues of the journal. So why does any of this matter? Because although developing countries, where the twin threats of climate change and food security are likely to have the greatest adverse effects, spend a disproportionately high amount of money on plant science research, funding is still severely limited. And without access to the best and most recent discoveries in plant science, the future for developing countries looks bleak. You can afford to worry about medical research once you have enough food to eat...." |
| Open Access Week event at U. Arizona: Reproducibility, Open Data Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:02 PM PDT |
| New digital repository to make scholarly research available to public / Featured Stories - FSU.com Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:02 PM PDT www.fsu.com "To support the idea that publicly funded research should be broadly and widely disseminated and easily accessible to the general public, Florida State University has developed the “DigiNole Commons Virtual Repository for Electronic Scholarship,” an online venue for the university’s faculty to store and showcase its research. What’s more, the FSU Faculty Senate has approved an open-access resolution to formalize the university’s support for the principle of open access...." |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 01:46 PM PDT |
| University of Cape Town signs the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge Posted: 04 Nov 2011 01:43 PM PDT OER@UCT, (02 Nov 2011) "We are pleased to share the news that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town Dr. Max Price has signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge. This marks another milestone in UCT’s move towards open practices in scholarly communication. Furthermore it represents UCT’s commitment to increasing access to education and knowledge in Africa...." |
| JISC - University of Salford Open Access Case Study - YouTube Posted: 04 Nov 2011 01:42 PM PDT |
| Neuer Leitfaden erschienen: Open Data – Freigabe von Daten aus Bibliothekskatalogen Posted: 04 Nov 2011 01:25 PM PDT iRights.info - Urheberrecht in der digitalen Welt, (03 Nov 2011) "When and under what conditions are library catalogs and their data protected by copyright? If they are to be made publicly available, when and how is that possible? A new guide from iRights.info editor Till Kreutzer addresses these issues...." |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:56 AM PDT total-impact.org "uncovering the invisible impacts of your research". A Web tool to view the impact of a wide range of research output. It goes beyond traditional measurements of research output -- citations to papers -- to embrace a much broader evidence of use across a wide range of scholarly output types. The system aggregates impact data from many sources and displays it in a single report. |
| ViewShare.org: Create and Share Interfaces to Our Digital Cultural Heritage Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:51 AM PDT The Signal: Digital Preservation, (31 Oct 2011) "We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new site, Viewshare.org, a platform for empowering curators, archivists, and librarians to provide access to the digital cultural heritage objects they are preserving. If you have been following us for a while you might realize that this looks and sounds a lot like Recollection. That’s because it is! Viewshare.org is the new domain name for our instance of the open source Recollection software. The transition to the new domain name represents a more significant commitment to this project. While we are still going to be actively refining, developing, and improving the software, putting it on its own domain name makes it easier to find, use, and share...." |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:48 AM PDT |
| Global Open Access Portal | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:36 AM PDT www.unesco.org "The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities...." |
| Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:33 AM PDT "Chris Freeland [is the] director of the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at MBG [Missouri Botanical Garden]....The garden is one of six institutions involved in the Encyclopedia of Life project, for instance, which will catalog data about every species on Earth and make it available online, serving as a single access point for studying the world’s biodiversity. Freeland is a self-described open-access evangelist, encouraging other herbaria and museums to share their collections as openly as possible. Ultimately, he hopes researchers will be able to use it to map new connections in the web of life...." |
| DSpace Open Access repository development in Africa: Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe - Open Access Week Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:30 AM PDT www.openaccessweek.org "PART FIVE: Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe This is the fifth of a five-part series that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in celebration of Open Access Week Oct. 24-30, 2011. The first part (Botswana, Ethiopia and Ghana) may be found here....Parts two, three and four (Kenya, Malawi; Mozambique, Senegal; Sudan, South Africa) may be found here...." |
| Open-source cancer research [video] | @GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:19 AM PDT |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:16 AM PDT www.techdirt.com "Heather Morrison has been analysing the profits of the major academic publisher Elsevier..., "If the total profit from Elsevier and Lexis-Nexis is added together and converted to U.S. dollars, the total is $2,075m. Divided by the estimated worldwide scholarly article output of 1.5 million articles per year (Björk et al, 2008), this comes out to $1,383 U.S." ...A comment on a post on another blog with a fantastic name...pointed out that this calculation was incorrect, and that the actual figure was more like $730 per article. But adding in the profits of another major academic publisher, Springer, would bring the overall profit per article published back up to the PLoS ONE level....It's an intriguing thought: to provide global access to all current academic research we just need to flip from one system – the present one, where a few giant corporations make billions of dollars a year – to one where open access publishers break even, and where academic institutions save money. So what are we waiting for? " |
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