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Friday, 6 April 2012

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)

Alma Swan: UNESCO Open Access Policy Guidelines
GLAM/Newsletter/March 2012/Contents/Open Access report - Outreach Wiki
Maybe it’s not so much physicality but ‘edges’ we are looking for in Humanities scholarly communication

Alma Swan: UNESCO Open Access Policy Guidelines

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 06:06 AM PDT

Alma Swan: UNESCO Open Access Policy Guidelines

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EXCERPTS: ...Policies can require ‘green’ Open Access by self-archiving but to preserve authors’ freedom to publish where they choose policies should only encourage ‘gold’ Open Access through publication in Open Access journals... Evidence has unequivocally demonstrated that to have real effect policies must be mandatory, whether institutional or funder policies.... Evidence shows that researchers are quite happy to be mandated to act in this way... The optimum arrangement, one that accommodates the needs of all stakeholders, and has the potential to collect the greatest amount of Open Access content, is for a network of institutional repositories to be the primary locus for deposit and for centralised, subject-specific collections to be created by harvesting the required content from that network of distributed repositories...

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GLAM/Newsletter/March 2012/Contents/Open Access report - Outreach Wiki

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 01:38 PM PDT

GLAM/Newsletter/March 2012/Contents/Open Access report - Outreach Wiki

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[From the Wikimedia Outreach newsletter “This Month in GLAM”] [1] “PLoS Computational Biology publishes first article destined for Wikipedia... This month saw the publication of the first Topic Page (see January) in PLoS Computational Biology - an article in the journal that had been written specifically for theCircular permutation in proteins entry on the English Wikipedia (see blog post). The article had been drafted in a MediaWiki instance licensed under CC BY.” [2] “QRpedia use in scholarly publishing... The press release about a new species of plant described in an article in the open-access journal PhytoKeys contained a QRpedia code pointing to Brunfelsia plowmaniana - the new species that had been diagnosed by way of DNA barcoding. Traffic stats: article,QRpedia. A session proposal on scientific GLAM:Wiki collaboration has been submitted for Wikimania.” [3] “Open Access Media Importer Development on the Open Access Media Importer continued, and the contracts have been signed. Two blog posts detail the progress: the module for crawling PubMed Central's Open Access Subset is now functional and can identify supplementary materials from this set - or articles matching specific search terms - that are licensed compatibly with Wikimedia Commons. The process works much like apt-get ... A session proposal on the Open Access Media Importer has been submitted for Wikimania.”