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AnthroSource moves to Wiley-Blackwell AnthroSource, the publishing arm of the American Anthropological Association, is moving from the University of California Press to Wiley-Blackwell. Thanks to William Walsh for the alert, this excerpt from the announcement, and the related links and excerpt to put the move in perspective:
Comment. This seems to put an end to the hopes of many anthropologists that the AAA would convert AnthroSource to OA. Update. Also see this comment by Tom Wilson: The basis for the decision appears to be, in part, a report by the AAA's Director of Publishing which contains a truly amazing proposition:Today�s electronic environment mitigates against a small scholarly publisher continuing to operate its entire program independently.I don't think I've seen such an unintelligent statement about publishing in the electronic era. It is exactly the opposite of the true situation: the electronic environment makes it easier for scholarly societies to pursue an independent programme. I would urge members of the AAA to abandon their organization (since it has abandoned them to the vagaries of commercial decision making) and develop their own alternative publishing outlets. There are many examples of collaborative, non-commercial OA journals from which they could take models and encouragement. Studying the redirection of university funds from TA to OA Don Waters of the Mellon Foundation is willing to fund a study of “the feasibility and desirability of a massive reallocation of institutional funds [from journal subscriptions] to support open access”. From his LibLicense post of August 15:
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An OA table-of-contents service Roddy MacLeod has written a useful introduction to the new ticTOCs project:
Beyond open data to open methods Cameron Neylon, Open methods vs open data - might the former be even harder? Science in the open, August 17, 2007. Excerpt:
Special issue of CTWatch on the coming revolution in scholarly The August issue of Cyberinfrasctructure Technology Watch (CTWatch) is devoted to The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communication and Cyberinfractructure. All the articles are OA-related:
The July issue of Ariadne is now online. Here are the OA-related articles:
More on citation impact of OA journals Hajar Sotudeh and Abbas Horri, The citation performance of open access journals: A disciplinary investigation of citation distribution models, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, August 17, 2007. Not even an abstract is free online, at least so far. Update. Thanks to Tom Wilson for sending me an excerpt, from which I've pulled these snippets: ...[C]itations to OA articles increase at a faster rate relative to the increase in publication of OA articles, although this rate is slower than that previously reported for the world science system....
Brewster Kahle on the OCA, Google, book-scanning, and libraries Andrew Richard Albanese, Scan this book! Library Journal, August 17, 2007.
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My computer is failing and tomorrow will undergo a hard-drive transplant. I’ll catch up as soon as we’ve both recuperated.
Two more nonprofits join the ATA FreePatentsOnline and Planetree have joined the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. An author addendum for Canadian scholars CARL and SPARC offer Canadian Authors new tool to widen access to published articles, a press release from CARL and SPARC, August 15, 2007. Excerpt:
Recent developments in open geography Steve Cisler, Open Geography: new tools and new initiatives, a preprint, June 5, 2007. (Thanks to the IAPAD Bibliography.) Excerpt:
Not letting patents obstruct scientific sharing Gerry Toomey, Sharing the fruits of science, University Affairs, August/September 2007. Excerpt:
Major grant support for Fedora archiving software Fedora Commons has received a $4.9 million grant from the Moore Foundation to enhance the open-source archiving software and cultivate an open community to support it. From Monday's announcement:
PS: As the Fedora Project expands into the Fedora Commons, it is changing the URL of its home page (the project, old URL → the commons, new URL). Copyright and the transition to OA in Sweden Sweden's OpenAccess.se has launched a study of Copyright in a new publishing environment. From the announcement:
The August issue of First Monday is now online. None of the articles directly addresses OA, but readers of OAN may find these of interest:
TEL needs to remove permission barriers Andy Powell, How open is The European Library? eFoundations, August 13, 2007. Excerpt:
Where is the OA law and humanities from the Max Planck Society? Klaus Graf shows that almost none of the research output of the Max Planck Society’s law and humanities institutes (as opposed to its natural science institutes) is OA through the Max Planck eDoc Server. Read the original German or in Google’s English. The Max Planck Society is a major voice for OA and organized the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. Licensing personal genome data Jason Bobe, Can a personal genome sequence get a creative commons license? The Personal Genome, August 13, 2007. Excerpt:
Funding to improve data sharing in neuroscience The NIH is funding a project on Sharing Data and Tools: Federation using the BIRN and caBIG Infrastructures. From the August 3 announcement:
There are four waves of funding and four deadlines for letters of intent: December 18, 2007, August 18, 2008, December 22, 2009, and August 21, 2009. Funding an assessment of the public domain The EU is funding an Assessment of the Economic and Social impact of the Public Domain in the Information Society. From the August 8 announcement:
More on the OA portal of European ETDs Maurice P.J.P Vanderfeesten and Gerard van Westrienen, A Portal For Doctoral E-Theses in Europe: Lessons Learned from a Demonstrator Project, SURF Foundation, July 2007.
Dean Giustini, UBC's John Willinsky - Stanford Takes Him (For Now), Open Medicine blog, August 12, 2007. Excerpt:
NIH funds for TA publication should shift to OA Heather Morrison, NIH Public Access Policy: Is the Funding for an OA transition already there? Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, August 12, 2007. Excerpt:
DFG funds to support OA journals The German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft or DFG) has announced a funding program to launch new science journals, expand existing journals, and help print journals make the transition to electronic publication. To be eligible for funding, the journals must meet the DFG guidelines for open access, peer review, and preservation. (Thanks to the Informationsplattform Open Access.) Update. See this comment by Tom Wilson: The enlightened character of this development compares favourably with the still unresolved policy of the UK Research Councils, which seem continually to be running scared of actually making a decision....[T]he RCUK considers that there are only two forms of open access, "author pays" and "self-archiving". The notion that research funds, instead of supporting commercial publishers through "author payments", could go to the formation of new, collaborative, no fee, no subscription e-journals, is not on their agenda. The real reason for this, of course, is that the Research Councils fear offending government policy towards business - even if those businesses lie mainly outside the UK.... Update. Klaus Graf argues that the DFG guidelines only require removing price barriers, not removing permission barriers. Read the German original or Google's English. Lisa Junker, Into the Great Wide Open, Associations Now, August 2007.
Wisconsin launches an OA publishing fund The University of Wisconsin at Madison has launched a Library Fund for Open Access Publishing. (Thanks to Heidi Marleau.) From the site:
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Not anti-publisher but anti-FUD Peter Murray-Rust, Open data: are licenses needed? A Scientist and the Web, August 11, 2007.
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