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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   |
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 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. |
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
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
Abby Clobridge |
'Academic Spring' Continues With Commentary on Open Access in the U.K. David Willetts, the U.K. Minister of State for Universities and Science, contributed to the dialogue with a speech presented on May 2 at the Publishers Association's annual meeting. |
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
December 2, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
OpenCon: Students and Early-Career Researchers for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data OpenCon, was the first full conference for students and early-career researchers that focused on the open knowledge trifecta -- open access, open education, and open data. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
October 15, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week Preview For most institutions, Open Access Week is a way to increase the visibility of open access among scientists, researchers, librarians, university faculty members, and students. |
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
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? |
Information Today
January 6, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
The News of 2014: The Year in Review We look forward to what is sure to be another eventful year for libraries, information professionals, and information services, it's time to reflect on the major industry happenings in 2014. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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
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
June 7, 2004
Robin Peek |
Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. |
Information Today
September 21, 2009
Robin Peek |
A Compact for Open Access Publication Announced Open-access publishing promises to put more research in more hands and in more places around the world. This is a good enough reason for universities to embrace the guiding principles of this compact. |
Information Today
May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2012
Laura Howes |
10 million open access boost UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, has today announced an additional investment of 10 million to help universities take up open access options. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Ana Alice Baptista |
Report on the 2nd Ibero-American Conference on Electronic Publishing in the Context of Scholarly Communication (CIPECC 2008) Details from the CIPECC conference on topics ranging from digital preservation to the social web. |
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
November 17, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
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
October 24, 2011 |
Open Access Week 2011 Opens Oct. 24 Coordinated by The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the event provides an opportunity to learn about the benefits of Open Access, share new ideas and strategies, and inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as the norm in scholarly communication. |
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
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
July 3, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year. |
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. |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
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
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
September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
September 3, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Elsevier Teams with Dutch National Library for Digitization Project Elsevier Science and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have announced an agreement that designates KB as the first official digital archive for Elsevier journals. |
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 13, 2012
Robin Peek |
The Cost of Knowledge Versus Elsevier: 5,600 Signatures and Growing Timothy Gowers, a Cambridge mathematician and winner of the coveted Fields medal in mathematics, began The Cost of Knowledge website petition to publicize his own personal boycott of Elsevier, thus encouraging others to do the same. |
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. |
