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Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Expectations of the Screenager Generation, presented at RLG Annual Partnership Symposium (Boston, June 3, 2009). (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) Report on a study of 12-18 year olds and their expectations of libraries and information resources.
More on the theory of research sharing
David Wojick, Sharing Results is the Engine of Scientific Progress, OSTIblog, June 17, 2009. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.)
Bernard Rentier, Faux départ !, Bernard Rentier, Recteur, June 22, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English.
See also our past posts on Enabling Open Scholarship and its predecessor, EurOpenScholar. Cancellations and OA, the flip side
Jonathan Eisen, Another reason to publish as Open Access - libraries hurting big time financially and they will be cancelling many subscriptions, The Tree of Life, June 27, 2009.
If you need any more incentive to publish a paper in an Open Access manner if you have a choice - here is one. If you publish in a closed access journal of some kind, it is likely fewer and fewer colleagues will be able to get your paper as libraries are hurting big time and will be canceling a lot of subscriptions. ... Court orders release of Elsevier license terms
Association of Research Libraries, Elsevier Motion to Block License Release Denied in Open-Records Decision, press release, June 23, 2009.
Why do publishers participate in developing country access initiatives?
Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Why are publishers participating in developing country access initiatives?, post to the Healthcare Information For All by 2015 mailing list, June 30, 2009.
See also our past posts on INASP and on developing country access initiatives, such as HINARI. Skeptical review of Anderson's Free
Malcolm Gladwell, Priced to Sell, New Yorker, July 6, 2009. A review of Chris Anderson's Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price.
See also our past posts on Anderson's Free. Presentations from European OA meeting
The presentations from Open Access - What are the Economic Benefits? (Brussels, June 22, 2009) are now online:
Comparative study says benefits of OA outweigh costs
Knowledge Exchange, Benefits of Open Access clearly outweigh costs in three European Countries, press release, July 1, 2009.
See also our past posts on Houghton's research. I just mailed the July issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at OA and the variety of digitization projects. How far can we defend the principle that the results of publicly-funded digitization projects should be OA? What if the public funds are supplemented by private funds? What if the works to be digitized are under copyright? What if the project wants to provide gratis rather than libre OA? The round-up section briefly notes 166 OA developments from June. Labels: Hot Feedback sought on citation sharing service
A Citation Services draft project proposal, drafted at a recent workshop in Amsterdam, is now soliciting feedback. For background, see posts by the JISC Information Environment Team and Alma Swan.
Victoria committee recommends encouraging, not requiring, OA The Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia on June 24 released the final report of its Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data. (Thanks to Dave Bath.) See especially Recommendation 8: That the Victorian Government encourage as part of its funding agreements with research agencies and higher education institutions that research results be deposited in open access journals or repositories. The Government should consider providing additional funds to these agencies to allow them to publish in open access journals that charge a fee for publication. From the report:
Labels: Hot BMC adds 'Post to Twitter' button
Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central and Twitter, BioMed Central Blog, June 24, 2009.
Forthcoming libre OA journal on stem cells
Stem Cell Research & Therapy is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal published by BioMed Central. See the June 26 announcement. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The article-processing charge is $1690, subject to discounts or waiver.
Most BMC journal impact factors increase
Matthew Cockerill, New and improved impact factors for BioMed Central journals in the 2008 JCR, BioMed Central Blog, June 24, 2009.
Of the 59 IFs for BMC journals listed in the post, 12 are new, 29 are improved, and 18 are not improved. Forthcoming libre OA journal on water
Water is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal on "the ecology and management of water resources" published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license. There are no article-processing charges in 2009; I can't tell if there will be later.
OCLC scraps WorldCat data policy, will write new one
OCLC, Review Board on Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship releases final report, press release, June 26, 2009.
WorldWideScience adds new discovery, sharing features
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Find and share global research with new tools at WorldWideScience.org, press release, June 26, 2009.
See also our past posts on WorldWideScience.
Myriam Bastin, 12,000 references in ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of Liège, announcement, June 26, 2009.
Just six months after its official launch (November 2008), ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of Liège (ULg), has reached 12,000 deposits and gives access to the full texts of almost 9,000 publications! These impressive figures are the results of a voluntary Open Access policy at the University of Liège, which has defined the "mandate ULg", ie the obligation for all researchers to deposit in ORBi the references of all scientific publications since 2002 and the full texts of all scientific articles since the same year. Free access to them is conditioned by respect for copyright. This success also reflects the very positive reaction of by researchers regarding this policy and this new way of visibility. ...See also our past posts on ORBi and the University of Liège. Pharmacy Education journal converts to OA
International Pharmaceutical Federation, FIP Re-Launches Pharmacy Education, An International Journal for Pharmaceutical Education, announcement, June 30, 2009.
Note that access to the full text requires free registration. Obama Ed. department drafting plan to fund OERs
Scott Jaschik, U.S. Push for Free Online Courses, Inside Higher Ed, June 29, 2009. (Thanks to Kevin Donovan.)
UNESCO releases its first openly licensed publication
UNESCO releases new publication on open educational resources, press release, June 26, 2009. (Thanks to Mike Linksvayer.)
In particular, the license is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike. Today I step back from systematic daily blogging in order to free up time for my new position at Harvard's Berkman Center and Office for Scholarly Communication. The blog itself will continue and Gavin will continue at something like his current pace. I will continue my daily crawl for OA-related news. I'll continue to tag what I find for the OA tracking project (OATP). I'll continue to write the monthly SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN). I'll continue to work full-time for OA. I'll even continue to blog, though only sporadically. Open Access News (OAN) will be smaller and more selective than in the past. I cannot assure you that the news it covers will be the most important subset. (That presupposes that Gavin and I will be on top of all new developments and in a position to pick the most important.) I'll blog what I notice, what moves me, and what I have time for, with the accent on the third criterion. It should be a eclectic bunch. I know that I'll notice a lot of important news, thanks to OATP, and I know that I'll be moved to blog a lot of it. But because of my new projects, even the most important news will be important news that I only have time to tag, not to blog. For a comprehensive source of OA news, subscribe to the OATP feed, which is available by RSS, email, and a blog-like web page with the most recent items displayed first. The OATP feed has been more comprehensive than this blog since April and it grows more comprehensive and useful every day. To help the cause, please join OATP as a tagger and help select new items for inclusion in the feed. For more details, see the OATP home page or my SOAN article about it from May 2009. In the same May SOAN, I reflect on the losses and gains from this transition. I'm acutely aware of them both.
Michael Nielsen, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? Michael Nielsen, June 29, 2009. Excerpt:
Harvesting ProQuest metadata for an ETD repository Shawn Averkamp and Joanna Lee, Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting ETDs into an Institutional Repository, code{4}lib, June 26, 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)
Open Access Publications (OAP) is a new OA journal publisher. (Thanks to Jim Till.) OAP will allow authors to retain copyright. Though it doesn't indicate what license it will use, it will offer libre OA, allowing "any third party the right to download, print out, extract, archive, and distribute the article as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified." It will charge a publication fee of £499. OAP's first journal is Single Cell Analysis, whose inaugural issue is still forthcoming. More on the U. Kansas OA policy A Web version of the text of the University of Kansas' new OA policy confirms what I'd suspected in my last post: that the policy as passed doesn't contain an OA mandate. It commits the university to OA, gives the university permission to provide OA to its faculty's research via the IR, and establishes a task force to work out the details -- including the details of how the manuscripts will get into the IR. See also: Chad Lawhorn, KU plans to be first public university library to allow free online access to researchers’ work, KTKA, June 26, 2009.
What's new with the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) since our last post:
Things to watch:
Siu-Ming Tam, Informing The Nation – Open Access To Statistical Information In Australia, March 18, 2009. A presentation at the UNECE Work Session on the Communication and Dissemination of Statistics (Warsaw, May 13-15, 2009). (Thanks to Anne Fitzgerald.) Excerpt:
Also see Marc Debusschere, Dissemination Policies in the ESS, from the proceedings of the same conference. Excerpt:
PAGEPress is an apparently new publisher of OA journals in biomedicine. It's based in Italy, a brand of MeditGroup. The PP journals charge a publication fee, which for 2009 is 500 Euros/article. However, PP explains that "the ability of authors to pay publication charges will never be a consideration in the decision as to whether to publish." PP says its uses CC-BY licenses. But when it spells out what it means, it describes a CC-BY-NC license and links to one. However, the sample article I looked at used a CC-BY license. The site lists 17 journals in medicine and biology. When I clicked through on each one, I found that 8 were operational, with published content (most still on their inaugural issue), and 9 were still on the drawing boards. No OA impact advantage seen in ophthalmology V.C. Lansingh and M.J. Carter, Does Open Access in Ophthalmology Affect How Articles are Subsequently Cited in Research? Ophthalmology, June 20, 2009. The article doesn't yet appear at the journal site, so I've linked to the abstract in PubMed. Abstract:
Viruses is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by MDPI. The inaugural issue (June 2009) is now online. OA mandate at the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance The Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance has strengthened its OA policy from a request to a requirement. (Thanks to Jim Till.) From the old policy (adopted April 2007):
From the new policy (revised April 2009):
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Labels: Hot Swords and plowshares: harvesting online knowledge Mark Rutherford, Reading machine to snoop on Web, CNet News, June 27, 2009. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)
Update. Also see our past posts on open source intelligence. Version 1.0 of the Open Database License The Open Data Commons has released version 1.0 of the Open Database License (ODbL). From today's announcement:
PS: Also see our past posts on the Open Database License --and our past posts on the Science Commons alternative (Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data), which favors the unrestricted public domain over open licenses for data. First funding pledge for ELIXIR Sweden became the first country to pledge funding to ELIXIR, an ambitious European project to preserve and provide OA to biological data. Charles W. Bailey, Jr., A Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher, June 28, 2009. Excerpt:
Also see the abridgment, A Brief Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher, June 28, 2009.
A new model for OA repositories Laurent Romary and Chris Armbruster, Beyond Institutional Repositories, a preprint, self-archived June 26, 2009.
Finland's National Electronic Library (FinELib) has joined the CERN SCOAP3 project. Friend of OA to help open up government data in Australia The Australian government has appointed Brian Fitzgerald to its Government 2.0 Taskforce, which is charged with opening access to non-sensitive government information. Fitzgerald is the head of the Queensland University of Technology Open Access to Knowledge Law Project. Also see our past posts on Fitzgerald and his OA work, and our post on the launch of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. (Congratulations, Brian!) More on the history of OA and the preprint culture in physics Richard Poynder, Open Access and the A-Bomb, Open and Shut? June 22, 2009. Excerpt:
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