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Monday, August 25, 2008

Special issue of OCLC Systems and Services on OA

The new issue (vol. 24, no. 3, 2008) of OCLC Systems & Services is devoted to OA. Apparently it's a two-part issue; this is Part 1, and Part 2 is still to come. Only abstracts free online, at least so far.

Norm Medeiros, Harvard, NIH, and the balance of power in the open access debate
Robert Fox, From cuneiform to digital text encodings
Frank Cervone, Thinking outside the library box: Considerations in contextualizing digital repositories for the local environment
Marcy M. Allen, Creating the virtual map drawer: Bridging the gap between spatial data infrastructures and map libraries
Martin P. Courtois, Elizabeth C. Turtle, Using faculty focus groups to launch a scholarly communication program
Marcus A. Banks and Robert Dellavalle, Emerging alternatives to the impact factor
Plato L. Smith II, Where IR you?: Using �open access� to extend the reach and richness of faculty research within a university

Update (9/25/08). An OA edition of Norm Medeiros' article is now online.

Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 10:17:00 AM.

The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research.

Why the OAN volume has been low since January 16, 2010

Why I curtailed my blogging on July 1, 2009

I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.