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Information Today
July 26, 2004
Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory.   |
Information Today
November 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
Information Today
October 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Chemistry World
July 14, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Science Europe proposes 'diamond engagement' open access plan An association of European funding organizations -- Science Europe -- has proposed improving open access for European research by encouraging researchers to share their work via publicly funded digital data repositories. |
Information Today
July 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
RCUK Releases Long-Awaited OA Policy The RCUK released its updated position paper, which now only strongly encourages that a substantial portion of its funded research must be OA. |
Information Today
July 12, 2012
Joanna Ptolomey |
Finch Report Reignites OA Storm The global research community and governments are looking to the U.K. for recommendations and solutions to funding and delivering open access models with the recent announcement of the report, "Expanding Access to Published Research Findings." |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Stevan Harnad |
United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015
Richard Huffine |
Distinctions Emerge in U.S. Government Plans for Expanding Access to Research Research funded by the U.S. government is finally going to be available for anyone to read and cite, based on plans laid out by the agencies that administer the funding |
Information Today
January 17, 2012
Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Chemistry World
February 27, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Science community urged to unite on open access Arguments over fine detail should not derail moves towards open access publishing for scientific research, according to those with the biggest stake in future changes. |
Information Today
May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2013
Houghton & Swan |
Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold" This short paper sets out the main conclusions of our work, which was designed to explore the overall costs and benefits of Open Access for research results, as well as identify the most cost-effective policy basis for transitioning to OA at national and institutional levels. |
Information Today
Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
Information Today
September 2004
Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access. |
Information Today
August 2006
Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
Information Today
January 2005
Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
Information Today
April 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2012
Maria Burke |
Wellcome Trust to enforce open access rules The Wellcome Trust has announced it will withhold final grant payments from researchers who fail to make their findings freely available with immediate effect. |
Information Today
September 13, 2004
Barbara Quint |
NIH Requires Open Access for Its Funded Medical Research With the NIH's decision, the fast-paced open access movement has picked up even more momentum. |
D-Lib
March 2005 |
The Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access Open Access (OA) means immediate, permanent, free online access to the full text of all refereed research journal articles (2.5 million articles a year, published in 24,000 refereed journals, across all disciplines, languages and nations). |
Information Today
July 3, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year. |
Information Today
December 2005
Jim Ashling |
Sites Unseen: Spies 'R' Us and More Britain's Secret Intelligence Service launches a new website... European Association of Information Services re-registers website... Frankfurt Book Fair grows in attendance and exhibitors... Publishers get monetary support from Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) open access program... etc. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2006
Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
Information Today
February 25, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
U.S. Takes Huge Step Forward in Opening Access to Publicly Funded Research During a flurry of announcements over the past 2 weeks, the world has watched as two major developments were launched from the U.S. federal government that will open access to articles produced as a result of grant funding from key U.S. agencies. |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2012
Maria Burke |
EU and UK bitten by the open access bug The European commission plans to make all the research findings funded by its 80 billion euro 2014 -- 2020 research program, Horizon 2020, accessible to all. |
Information Today
May 6, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Bill Introduced for Open Access to Federally Funded Research--FRPAA Revisited The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) will extend the existing open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) across all of the major funding agencies in the U.S. federal government. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2014
Hepeng Jia |
China plans 'green' open access future Thousands of Chinese papers published in top journals will have to freely accessible within a year of publication. |
Chemistry World
September 24, 2008
Fred Campbell |
ACS Open Access Agreement The American Chemical Society (ACS) is expected to finalize an agreement under which it will deposit published articles into open access repositories and allow their content to be redistributed for non-commercial research and education. |
Searcher
May 2004
Miriam A. Drake |
Institutional Repositories Hidden Treasures Librarians are taking leadership roles in planning and building repositories now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets, intellectual output, and histories of institutions. |
Searcher
December 2004
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Only Libraries, Only Librarians If Congress were to wave its magic wand and mandate open access across the federal research effort, it could accelerate the open access movement overnight. But are we ready? |
Information Today
January 7, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Roundup Here's a recap of five top stories -- all of which reflect the truly global nature of OA. |
Chemistry World
March 23, 2010
Leila Sattary |
MPs warn science cuts will harm economy Stop spending cuts now or risk devastating British science and the economy, says a report published today by the UK government's Science and Technology Committee. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010
Stevan Harnad |
No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Prost & Schopfel |
Degrees of Openness: Access Restrictions in Institutional Repositories Institutional repositories contain a growing number of items that are metadata without full text, metadata with full text only for authorized users, and items that are under embargo or that are restricted to on-campus access. |
Information Today
November 12, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
A Conversation With BioMed Central's Cockerill on Open Access Publishing BMC was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008. Last month, I had a chance to sit down with Matthew Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Elena Giglia |
Open Access, Open Data: Paradigm Shifts in the Changing Scholarly Communication Scenario The Open Access Open Data conference was held December, 2010 in Cologne, Germany. The purpose of the conference was to examine the development of the Open Access movement during the last five years and how it will change. |
Information Today
April 7, 2015 |
Springer and Jisc Work Toward Sustainable OA Publishing Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc reached an agreement that helps U.K. scientists comply with multiple funders' open access policies. |
Information Today
October 20, 2008 |
New Collaboration Project of Publishers, Repositories, and Researchers Launched--PEER The publishing and research communities share the view that increased access to the results of EU-funded research is necessary to maximize their use and impact. |
Information Today
August 20, 2013
Barbara Quint |
OA Rules at the University of California The largest public research university in the world recently committed all of its 10 campuses to open access. |
D-Lib
November 2002
Richard K. Johnson |
Institutional Repositories Partnering with faculty to enhance scholarly communication using digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. |
D-Lib
February 2008 |
Carrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository An overview of the implementation process of RepositoriUM and the most effective measures conducted to achieve a successful IR implementation. |
Information Today
May 23, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
Dialogue Over Public Access to Scholarly Publications Continues in the U.S. The conversation surrounding OA and public access today is vastly different from 5 years ago when the NIH policy was passed. The conversation in general has shifted from whether OA is a good thing to how to best implement it |
