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Information Today August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books. |
Information Today October 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions On Oct. 11, 2012, the Copyright Clearance Center debuted its Open Access Solutions, a set of services aimed at supporting publishers in managing their journal content through the CCC's RightsLink platform. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2013: A Recap of This Year's Global Celebration Celebrations of various types were sponsored by libraries, students, researchers, publishers, and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness about open access. |
Information Today December 19, 2013 |
UNESCO Broadens OA Policy UNESCO introduced an open access repository that makes more than 300 online books, reports, and articles in about 12 languages freely available on UNESCO's website. |
Information Today January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today February 25, 2014 |
HighWire Press Augments Articles With Altmetric Data HighWire Press and Altmetric, a London-based startup focused on scholarly literature, signed an agreement to offer altmetrics integration for publications hosted on the HighWire Open Platform. |
Information Today November 15, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Berlin 10 Open Access Conference Recap As open access and other "open" movements become more of a part of the mainstream consciousness, conversations surrounding OA continue to evolve. How do we move past the legacies of the print publication world and what is a journal in today's environment? |
Information Today March 26, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Meeting Reflections -- SPARC 2012 The SPARC Open Access Meeting was held March 12-13, 2012. in Kansas City, Mo. More than 200 people attended to discuss a host of OA themes including policy issues, author rights, OA publishing, and repositories. |
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. |
Information Today February 11, 2014 |
SpringerLink Articles Add Altmetrics Springer Science+Business Media now offers altmetrics information on all of its SpringerLink articles. |
Information Today November 25, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
Information Today July 10, 2014 |
Europe PMC Gains New OA Research WHO (World Health Organization) announced an open access policy in January 2014 that now applies to all WHO research published in external books and journals. |
Information Today November 4, 2014 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2014: Celebrating 'Generation Open' Generation Open, encouraged librarians, publishers, and OA advocates to consider openness through the lens of the newest generation of researchers. |
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 May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
Information Today May 27, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
How Will You Celebrate Open Access Week? International OA Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to share what they've learned and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make OA a new norm in scholarship and research. |
Information Today September 12, 2013 Barbara Quint |
OA: Teetering Toward the Tipping Point Librarians were probably among the first groups to completely and ardently advocate OA. we all know that open access will achieve its tipping point and replace print publications and, more importantly, traditional print publishers. |
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 January 14, 2016 |
Alexander Street Introduces OA Resources Alexander Street announced three freely accessible online resources in the topics of video, anthropology, and music. |
Information Today June 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
NISO Project Brings Scientific Evaluation Into the 21st Century With Altmetrics New forms of scholarly outputs, such as datasets, software tools, algorithms, or molecular structures are now commonplace, but they are not easily assessed by traditional citation metrics. These are two among the many concerns the growing movement around altmetrics is trying to address. |
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. |
Information Today November 2004 Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Information Today December 5, 2011 Barbie E. Keiser |
Berlin 9 OA Conference Urging More, Faster The theme of this year's conference, The Impact of Open Access in Research & Scholarship, drew 260 researchers, research funders, OA advocates, commercial publishers, and policymakers. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Castellucci & Giglia |
OAI7 - CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The spirit of the meeting is sharing best practices, experiences and ideas, as well as connecting people and creating new possibilities for the achievement of "openness" within national and international institutions. |
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. |
Information Today October 6, 2011 Barbara Quint |
Princeton University Faculty Commit to Open Access The open access movement continues to add allies as the faculties of major universities, from which so much scholarship originates, join the cause. |
Information Today December 12, 2013 |
Palgrave Macmillan Takes New Step Toward OA Palgrave Macmillan joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, a trade organization that represents the interests of global open access journal publishers in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. |
Information Today October 16, 2014 |
Thomson Reuters and CCC Simplify OA Workflows With ScholarOne Manuscripts, scholarly publishers and societies can access submission, correspondence, review, reporting, and user management for OA articles from one platform. |
D-Lib March 2005 |
Library as Place What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? |
Information Today June 12, 2014 |
NISO Altmetrics Draft Now Open for Public Comment The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project began in July 2013 with the goal of studying, proposing, and developing alternative-metrics standards and recommended practices. |
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 June 30, 2015 |
APA Indexes Books and Journals in ReadCube The American Psychological Association teamed up with ReadCube to index its scholarly journal and book collections. |
Information Today July 12, 2012 |
IET Launches Open Access Engineering Megajournal This is part of the IET's continuing mission to make essential engineering intelligence available to the worldwide engineering community, benefitting researchers who contribute to or use this content. |
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 July 7, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Highlights From the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The international community joined together June 17-19 at the University of Geneva to discuss big issues, learn from each other, and challenge perceptions related to publishing and scholarly discourse. |
Information Today October 27, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2015: 'Open for Collaboration' Libraries, universities, research institutes, publishers, research funding agencies, and individual OA advocates used the opportunity to talk, tweet, and share thoughts, success stories, and lessons learned about OA, open data, and open education. |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
IGI Global Starts OA Initiative Individuals and institutions will have unrestricted access to the selected titles. |
Searcher July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 David Stern |
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today September 17, 2013 |
CCC Steps Up Its OA Efforts Copyright Clearance Center joined the U.K.'s Gold Open Access Infrastructure program as the next step in its ongoing efforts to improve open access standards. |
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 February 11, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
Introducing the Open Library of Humanities While the open access movement has been moving at dizzying speeds, its strongest support from academia has been from the science community. But a group of academics and OA supporters are aiming to change that through the Open Library of Humanities. |
D-Lib June 2004 Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. |
Information Today June 28, 2012 Barbara Quint |
Plum Analytics Maps Success in Open Access Scholarship Altmetrics is a contraction of the phrase "alternative metrics." The term refers to a group of different techniques and technologies all meant to wrestle with the issues of scholarship moving to digital venues. |
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 |
D-Lib April 2009 Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |