Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
The Big Think site brought this video to my attention. As this is a teaching blog, I think it is worth watching, if you are unfamiliar with this notion of who pays and what are the most sustainable models of open access. Panelists: Mike Rossner, Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press; Ivy Anderson, Director [...]
Tue, August 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I saw the announcement on resourceshelf.com about The University of Ottawa Press decision to launch a new open access collection of 36 UOP books will be available free to the online community in the University of Ottawa’s institutional repository, uO Research, including both French and English-language in-print titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Curious about the representation [...]
Sun, August 8 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
The following press release was forwarded to me by a colleague: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ APS ONLINE JOURNALS AVAILABLE FREE IN U.S. PUBLIC LIBRARIES Ridge, NY, 28 July 2010: The American Physical Society (APS) announces a new public access initiative that will give readers and researchers in public libraries in the United States full use of all online [...]
Sun, August 1 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
On June 4th the University of California Library System issued a very public complaint about Nature Publishing Group‘s proposed triple-digit increase in institutional subscription costs, coupled with a threat of author and editorial boycott by faculty. On June 24th, David Carlson, the Dean of Library Affairs at Southern Illinois University(SIU), Carbondale, and Associate Dean Connie [...]
Tue, July 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
When a library tweets about open access funding, I sit up and listen. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Research and University Libraries have renewed a fund of $20,000 for FY 2009-2010 to support publishing in open access journals. Credit must be given to the Library Scholarly Communication unit, which guides digital library initiatives, [...]
Fri, July 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
eIFL.net is an international not-for-profit organization building partnerships with libraries around the world to enable sustainable access to high quality digital information for people in developing and transition countries. Like eIFL.net was originallystarted to address the serials pricing crisis in academic and research libraries in Central and Eastern Europe. eIFL.net currently partners with libraries and [...]
Mon, July 5 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
The Open Access @ UNT Symposium on May 18 featured a keynote address by Stevan Harnad, the über evangelist of the green open access movement. Dr. Harnad has a standard address about the benefits of pre-print self archiving that translates into the open access advantage. This carefully edited video transcription also works in Harnad’s answers [...]
Thu, July 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The University of North Texas at Denton hosted an Open Access Symposium on May 18, 2010, part of their ongoing initiative to establish a campus open access policy. UNT would be the first public university in Texas, and only the second public university in the U.S., after the University of Kansas, to formalize a requirement for [...]
Fri, May 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Every academic library needs a Tschera Connell on their staff, but of course, not every academic library has the vision to know that green open access is the way for researchers to go. Back a few weeks ago I posted the slam dunk article by Alma Swan explaining the open access boost and summarizing a [...]
Tue, May 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a young organization just about to hold their 2nd annual meeting on August 22-24 in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. The have already assembled a large membership roster of international publishing organizations, scholarly society publishers, and independent open access journals. There is also [...]
Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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