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Information Today October 13, 2015 |
The Open Library of Humanities Debuts The Open Library of Humanities, an organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no charges to authors, launched after 2 years of planning. |
Information Today May 12, 2015 |
Open Library of Humanities Gains Participants Three universities joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system: Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Exeter, and the University of Sussex. |
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 October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets. |
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 July 12, 2010 Barbara Quint |
LYRASIS Partnerships Expand with OCLC, Launch with SkyRiver LYRASIS, the nation's largest regional (multi-state) library membership network, has announced two new partnership arrangements designed to serve the needs of its library members. |
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 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 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 July 31, 2014 |
Brill Announces New OA Journals Brill launched a suite of four online-only, open access journals in humanities, social sciences, law, and biology. |
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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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 March 26, 2015 |
IGI Global Starts OA Initiative Individuals and institutions will have unrestricted access to the selected titles. |
Information Today March 12, 2015 |
University of California Organizations Partner for Publishing Workflow Management System The University of California Press and the California Digital Library received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a content and workflow management system for publishing open access monographs. |
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. |
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 May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
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 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 April 30, 2015 |
NEH Provides Humanities in the Public Square Grant Program This is a grant opportunity designed to "put humanities scholars in direct dialogue with the public on some of the most pressing issues of today." |
Information Today April 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
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 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 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 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. |
Information Today October 16, 2014 |
Brill's Humanities Journal Opens for Submissions This international open access journal from Brill is designed as a broad, dedicated publication platform for all branches of the humanities field. |
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 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." |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Schopfel et al. |
A French-German Survey of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Access and Restrictions As a French-German research team we conducted a survey with a sample of academic libraries and graduate schools in France and Germany to determine the current situation and trends in the publishing of electronic PhD theses and dissertations under Open Access |
Information Today July 19, 2010 |
LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to Offer Expanded Microfilm Scanning Services LYRASIS' Mass Digitization Collaborative enables members to digitize books, serials, and newspapers for a low fee. LYRASIS is the nation's largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals. |
Information Today January 16, 2014 |
Portico Partners With Knowledge Unlatched Portico announced an agreement with the open access initiative Knowledge Unlatched that will preserve Knowledge Unlatched's Pilot Collection of OA ebooks in Portico's E-Book Preservation Service. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
NFAIS Plans Digital Humanities Roundtable The National Federation of Advanced Information Services will host its annual NFAIS Humanities Round table to discuss global opportunities and challenges in the digital humanities. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 |
In Brief and In the News OCLC prints last library catalog cards... VRA Core RDF Ontology available for review... ALA awarded IMLS grant for IFLA 2016 Congress Fellowships... |
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. |
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 January 20, 2015 |
NEH and Mellon Foundation Subsidize Ebook Conversions The Humanities Open Book Program is a joint pilot grant program that plans to facilitate the conversion of out-of-print books in the humanities. |
Information Today March 31, 2015 |
Cogent OA Redefines APC Strategy Open access publisher Cogent OA introduced the Freedom APC (article processing charge) initiative. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS to Award $154.8 Million to States to Improve Library Services... Wiley Launches Premium Open Access Journal Advanced Science... Mellon Grant Awarded to NISO to Explore Patron Privacy in Library and Publisher Systems... |
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 18, 2014 |
Cogent OA Rolls Out UI Upgrade Cogent OA, an open access publisher that is part of Taylor & Francis Group, introduced an upgrade to its user interface. |
Information Today August 25, 2015 |
NLM and NEH Partner for Upcoming Workshop and Other Initiatives The organizations plan to use their partnership to encourage high-quality humanities, biomedical, and cultural heritage scholarship. |
Information Today May 29, 2014 |
Knowledge Unlatched Rolls Out Pilot Results Its mission was to create a sustainable route to open access for specialist scholarly books by working with libraries and publishers to share the costs of OA. |
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. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 |
In Brief and In the News President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge... IMLS announces public request for comment and webinar on broadband barriers... Julie Todaro Wins 2016-2017 ALA Presidency... |