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Information Today
May 20, 2013 |
UNESCO Publications to Be Free Under Open License Following a decision by the Executive Board in April, UNESCO became the first member of the U.N. to adopt such an open access policy for its publications.   |
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
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. |
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
April 19, 2012
Marydee Ojala |
Opening Up the World Bank's Data In its ongoing trajectory toward transparency, the World Bank announced on April 10, 2012, that it would make its publications open access under Creative Commons licenses. |
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
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. |
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
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 |
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
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
April 9, 2015 |
CERN and Elsevier Further Their OA Goals New open access articles cover fields such as nuclear physics, instrumentation, astroparticle physics, and scientific computing. |
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
September 19, 2013 |
ICAR Transitions to OA The Indian Council of Agricultural Research recently joined the open access movement. It announced its intentions to implement an academic and research OA policy during the next 3 years. |
Information Today
September 22, 2015 |
NPG-Palgrave Macmillan Survey Shows Perceptions of OA Publishing The survey shows a growing confidence among scientists in the quality of open access publications. |
Information Today
October 24, 2013 |
New Bibliography Provides List of Altmetrics Sources Digital Scholarship released the Altmetrics Bibliography on its website to serve as a resource for understanding altmetrics. |
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
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
March 21, 2013 |
Reprints Desk, Inc. Announces New Open Access Filter Reprints Desk, Inc. announced the launch of a new Open Access filter for the company's document delivery service that is used by research-driven companies and institutions to acquire single copies of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. |
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. |
Information Today
March 31, 2015 |
Cogent OA Redefines APC Strategy Open access publisher Cogent OA introduced the Freedom APC (article processing charge) initiative. |
ifeminists
September 24, 2002
Wendy McElroy |
U.S. Should Stay Out of UNESCO The president pledged to rejoin UNESCO -- the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- from which the U.S. had withdrawn in protest in 1984. Rejoining is a mistake. |
D-Lib
February 2009 |
To the Editor (January/February 2009) Tenopir & King's confirmation of the finding that as more articles become accessible, more articles are indeed accessed (and read), but fewer articles are cited (and those are cited more) is best explained by the increased selectivity made possible by that increased accessibility |
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. |
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
May 29, 2014 |
NPG and IECAS Plan New OA Journal Nature Publishing Group teamed up with the Institute of Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to launch an online open access journal beginning publication in March 2015. |
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). |
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. |
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. |
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Jan/Feb 2010
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Creative Commons: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century Copyright laws in the U.S. have been around since 1790, but two 20th-century revisions, coupled with the internet's fostering of a read/write culture, have had a significant impact on the use, reuse, and distribution of digital media and content in this century. |
Information Today
March 13, 2014 |
Thieme Introduces OA Platform It aggregates Thieme's OA articles on a single platform that is permanently available online for free. |
Information Today
May 2008
Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model. |
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
January 6, 2015
Abby Clobridge |
Open Access 2014: 4Q News Roundup The open access movement continued to chalk up a number of key victories -- and faced an unexpected curveball along the way. |
Information Today
April 19, 2012 |
OAPEN Launches Beta Version of Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) announced the launch of the beta version of Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an open access license. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft's Creative Copyright Move Software giant Microsoft said it will offer a free tool for Office users to embed Creative Commons copyright options in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. |
Information Today
February 25, 2014 |
Columbia School of Social Work Adopts OA Resolution Columbia University Libraries announced that the university's School of Social Work implemented an open access resolution, making scholarly works from the SSW open to the public. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009
Mueller et al. |
OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany This article describes concepts, development, and implementation of an overall Open Access infrastructure for Germany. |
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. |
Information Today
November 10, 2015 |
Google Scholar Indexes OAPEN-Hosted Monographs The OAPEN Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes the publication of academic OA books and provides a platform for the full-text dissemination of OA titles. |
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
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
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
July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
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
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 18, 2014 |
EDP Open Promotes Gold OA Publisher EDP Sciences introduced EDP Open, a new open access imprint for its scientific titles that offers OA journals, books, and conference proceedings all published exclusively online. |
Information Today
December 2, 2014 |
UNESCO's Creative Cities Network Gains Members UNESCO announced that 28 cities from 19 countries joined its Creative Cities Network, which aims to foster cooperation among cities around the world for sustainable development purposes. |
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. |
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. |
