New ORCID-integrated data citation tool. A new beta service has been launched for searching and claiming works in DataCite: http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org With this tool, created in the context of the ODIN Project, authors can identify themselves with their ORCID ID and search their own works in the DataCite Metadata Store. They can add them to their research outputs in their ORCID profile. This new service also provides formatted citations in several popular citation styles, supports COinS, links to related resources, and displays the attached Creative Commons license where this information is available. More here.
Source: @gmcmahon

Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?, Richard Poynder. “Making Open Access (OA) a reality has proved considerably more difficult and time consuming than OA advocates expected when they started out. It is now 19 years since cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad posted his Subversive Proposal calling on researchers to make their papers freely available on the Web; and it is nearly 12 years since those who took part in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) coined the term Open Access, and agreed on a definition. However, few now doubt that OA is inevitable, and a number of developments this year have served to confirm that. In February, for instance, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published a memorandum on public access in which it directed federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication.” More here.
Source: @SPARC_EU

UK Open Government Licence is now compliant with the Open Definition. On Friday the UK National Archives launched a new version of the Open Government Licence, which is now the default licence used by the UK government to publish the lion’s share of its public sector information. The new version of the licence is now officially conformant with the Open Definition. More here.
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LSEBlogs: Monographs and book chapters must become a larger part of the open access landscape, by Cecy Marden. The Wellcome Trust’s open access policy, which requires funded research publications be made openly available, now extends to scholarly monographs and book chapters and additional funds will be provided to cover publishers’ OA monograph processing charges. Cecy Marden provides further background on the Trust’s decision-making process and explains why the additional costs (0.1% of their total research spend) are worth the investment. More here.
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‘Debating Open Access’ – A collection of 8 articles by leading academics and publishers reflecting on the challenges of open access publication for humanities and social sciences – published by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Featuring contributions from: Rita Gardner; Stuart M. Shieber; Chris Wickham; Stephen Curry; Martin Paul Eve; Ziyad Marar; Robin Osborne; and Nigel Vincent. More here.
Source: @CC_Aotearoa

DOABooks is officially launched. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Source: @DOABooks

DOAJ is now on Facebook. At facebook.com/DirectoryofOpenAccessJournals.
Source: @DOAJplus

OSU Adopts University-Wide Open Access Policy. Oregon State University has officially adopted an open access policy requiring faculty members to make their scholarly articles available for free through the digital repository ScholarsArchive@OSU. The policy applies to all future scholarly articles authored or co-authored by faculty members at OSU. OSU is the first university, public or private, in the Pacific Northwest to adopt a university-wide open access policy, and one of the first land grant universities in the nation to do so. About 58 percent of eligible OSU-produced scholarly articles are already placed in ScholarsArchive@OSU, which is managed by OSU Libraries. Faculty members may obtain waivers from the policy at their discretion. More here.
Source: @OpenAccessMKD

Report Examines Policies for Open Access to Images of Museum Works. Art museums have long controlled the images of objects in their collections by charging fees for their use. In recent years, however, several art museums in the United States and United Kingdom have adopted policies permitting more open access to these images. A new report, prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and published by CLIR, describes the current approaches of 11 art museums to the use of images from their collections, when the underlying works are in the public domain. The report, Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access, was written by Kristin Kelly. Ms. Kelly, a freelance museum professional and writer, spent nine years as the manager of administration at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and nine years overseeing public programming and communications at the Getty Conservation Institute. The author found that each of the eleven museums studied has taken a slightly different approach to making images of the works in its collection more openly accessible. Some have put high-resolution digital files of works online for use by anyone for any purpose. Others have established a “fee and free” system that considers whether use is for commercial use or for promotion of scholarship. Still others evaluate each request on its individual merits. By presenting the thought processes and methods used in these institutions, the report aims to inform the decision making of other museums that are considering open access to images in their collections. More here.
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Hundreds of Tweets about the JISC open access monographs conference at the British Library have absolutely taken over the Twitter feed.