Open Access News

News from the open access movement

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

An English version of the Universitat Polit�cnica de Catalunya's OA policy adopted last month makes clear the policy is a mandate.
In a commentary for PLoS Biology, David Shulenburger writes that "University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science".
Stevan Harnad criticizes Columbia University for its announced intention to sign the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity without adopting a self-archiving mandate first.
Molecular Diversity Preservation International launched Sciforum, a service for hosting OA virtual conferences.
The growth of OA "heralds a new era in health science research", write Rebecca Goulding and Goldis Chami.
The California Academy of Sciences' OA resource AntWeb, including images of more than 4,000 species of ant, switched to the more permissive Creative Commons BY-SA license.
The London School of Economics and Political Science Library is the latest institution to join Flickr Commons. But the library claims its images are not for commercial use.

Posted by Gavin Baker at 11/10/2009 04:10:00 PM.

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.

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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.