Open Access NewsNews from the open access movement Jump to navigation |
|||||||||||||||
OA monographs in the humanities from new European consortium Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is a new consortium of university and museum presses dedicated to publishing OA monographs with print-on-demand (POD) editions. (Thanks to Jean Kempf.) From the home page:
The partners (to date) are:
From the General Introduction:
Comment. This is an excellent idea, much needed. I applaud the OA orientation, the HSS focus, the POD option, and the consortial collaboration. Kudos to all involved. Final report from the EPrints Community Project Steve Hitchcock, Taking EPrints to the next level: Final Report from the EPrints Community project, EPrints Insider, December 8, 2007.
Copenhagen presentations on OA The presentations from the Seminar on Open Access (Copenhagen, November 29, 2007) are now online. Some are in Danish and some in English. Law journals should encourage OA archiving Alfred L. Brophy, Advice to Law Journals, Part 18, PropertyProf Blog, December 7, 2007.
Videos of the presentations from the Berlin 5 meeting, Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination (Padua, September 19-21, 2007), are now online. Thanks to Kaitlin Thaney, who also adds these comments:
PS: The abstracts of the presentations were posted in September.
Award of Excellence for Citizendium Citizendium received an Award of Excellence yesterday from the Society for New Communications Research. PS: Congratulations to Larry Sanger and all the citizens. Here are two new OA journals from BioMed Central:
Scientific American allows postprint archiving Add Scientific American to the list of journals allowing postprint archiving, at least on request. Graham Steel tells the story of one recent article on Lou Gehrig's disease, from request to deposit. Open source knowledge management at Science Commons D. Wentworth, What’s “open source knowledge management”? Science Commons blog, December 5, 2007. Excerpt:
Paying publishers for content they do not deliver Andrea Foster, Academic Libraries Shortchanged on Electronic Content, Wired Campus, December 5, 2007. Excerpt:
Permissions would be expensive, therefore... Legit book scanning price tag: $25 billion, WebProBlog, December 5, 2007. Excerpt:
Comments
Open research in the life sciences YourSci.com is a new site for collaborative, open science. (Thanks to Synthesis.) From the front page:
Presentations from NISO's IR meeting The presentations from the NISO meeting, Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository: Gathering Content and Building Use (Beltsville, Maryland, December 3, 2007), are now online. (Thanks to Dorothea Salo.)
Milestones for the Caltech OA archives The Caltech CODA (Collection of Open Digital Archives) reached a number of milestones in November. From today's announcement:
Peter Becker and Jos van Helvoort, The Benefits of Open Access Publishing for Students in Higher Education, a YouTube video of a presentation at the Workshop of the Information Management Working Group (IMWG) of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) (The Hague, September 26-28, 2007). From the abstract at the YouTube site:
Also see the published edition of their talk, "Publiceren via open access in het hoger onderwijs," Informatie Professional, December 2007 (accessible only to subscribers). The paper is in Dutch, but the video presentation is in English. The same issue contains a paper by Marie Heijne, "Open access: vrije toegang tot wetenschappelijke publicaties?" Presentations at DOE's High Energy Physics Panel The presentations from the US Department of Energy's High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (Washington DC, November 29, 2007) are now online. Two of them explicitly address OA. The transition to e-only journals Richard K. Johnson and Judy Luther, The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What’s Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone, Association of Research Libraries, December 5, 2007.
Also see the ARL press release, December 5, 2007. Comment. The report does not discuss OA, and applies more to TA ejournals than OA ejournals. But there are nevertheless implications for OA. As I argued recently:
The trajectory for IRs: up or down? Dorothea Salo has a couple of predictions for OA in 2008:
More on the state of OA in chemistry Rebecca Trager, Chemistry's open access dilemma, Chemistry World, December 2007. Excerpt:
Comments
Complete 50 year backfile for Medieval Archaeology now free online Alun Salt, An early Christmas present from the Society for Medieval Archaeology, Clioaudio, December 6, 2007. Excerpt:
PS: Medieval Archaeology publishes one issue per year, so 50 issues is 50 years. The free online backfile starts with the first issue in 1957. Subscription business models are like the QWERTY keyboard Rosie Redfield, Subscription-supported journals are like the qwerty keyboard, RRResearch, December 5, 2007. Excerpt:
Depositing chemical data in ChemSpider Antony Williams, The Benefits to Depositors of Putting Data on ChemSpider, ChemSpider blog, December 5, 2007. Excerpt:
OA for genome research from Nature Shared genomes, Nature, December 6, 2007. An editorial. Excerpt:
Comments
Update (12/7/07). Also see Andrea Gawrylewski's article in The Scientist. Update. Also see NPG's December 5 press release to accompany the editorial.
The Medical Library Assocation has released three cards on OA to accompany its November 20 webcast, Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Straight Talk. From the Philadelphia chapter of the MLA:
Listen to a 13 minute interview in which David Prosser (Director of SPARC Europe) talks to Dick Kaser (VP of Content for for Information Today) about OA in Europe. See a 12.5 minute video interview with Alexander Borbély on open access (in German). Borbély is the former VP of Research at the University of Zurich and the person most responsible for Zurich's OA mandate. Leslie Johnston, Goals and vision for a repository, Digital Eccentric, December 5, 2007. Excerpt:
OA to publicly-funded research in Germany Germany's Green Party has called for open access to publicly-funded research. To read the key passage, scroll to p. 8, search for the English phrase "open access", or read it excerpted on Eric Steinhauer's blog (in German or Google's English).
Winners of first Open Archaeology Prize The Alexandria Archive Institute has announced the winners of its first Open Archaeology Prize (November 30, 2007):
Intute wins 2007 Farradane Award Intute has won the 2007 Jason Farradane Award from the Journal of Information Science. For details, see JISC's announcement this morning:
EC endorses European Digital Library Foundation European Digital Library Foundation welcomed by the Commissioner, a press release from the European Digital Library, November 28, 2007. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) Excerpt:
BASE expands its index and adds multi-lingual searching The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) now indexes over 500 OA repositories. From yesterday's announcement:
OA to 39 years of Folklore Forum Folklore Forum has deposited all 39 years of its backfile to the institutional repository of Indiana University. For details, see yesterday's announcement.
David Glenn, Anthropologists Vote to Clamp Down on Secret Scholarship, Chronicle of Higher Education News blog, December 1, 2007. Excerpt:
Andrea Marchitelli, OJS and OCS: upgrading journals, conferences and scholarly communication to Open Access, apparently a preprint forthcoming in European Science Editing.
New data showing that most OA journals charge no publication fees Bill Hooker, If it won't sink in, maybe we can pound it in..., Open Reading Frame, December 2, 2007. First Bill recaps existing evidence (1) that most OA journals charge no author-side fees, and (2) that a larger percentage of TA journals charges such fees than do OA journals. I'm very grateful to see him hammering on this issue, which I've been doing nearly alone for two years. But he goes further and adds new evidence:
British Library calls (again) for rebalancing copyright law Balance in IP “not working”, a press release from the British Library, November 30, 2007. Excerpt:
PS: For background, see the British Library's IP Manifesto from September 2006 and the Adelphi Charter (a model of balance, including a call for OA to scientific research) from October 2005.
Richard Noorden, Surfing Web2O, Chemistry World, December 2007. Excerpt:
Wikipedia is free to relicense under CC From the Wikimedia Foundation resolution (December 1, 2007):
From Jimmy Wales (on the Jamendo blog):
From an unnamed contributor to the Jamendo blog:
From Lawrence Lessig (on his blog):
Comments
Peter Mansbridge interviewed Richard Smith, November 24, for Mansbridge One on One. Watch the 30 minute video. Thanks to Graham Steel, who reports that the primary discussion of OA (there is more than one) starts at 7:37 minutes. Author-owned journal cooperatives Gavin Baker, Author-owned scholarly journal cooperatives: a win-win situation? This place is pretty ugly, December 1, 2007. Excerpt:
From the body of the post:
I just mailed the December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue tells the November chapter of the continuing saga of the OA policy at the NIH, especially the Bush veto, the failure of the House to override it, and prospects for the future. It also offers some predictions for open access in 2008. The round-up section briefly notes 101 OA developments from the past month. |