Here are the major blog postings I made by email to SOAF while OAN was down last week. June 26, 2005:
Harnad on self-archiving at Vienna conference. "Open Access" statt teurer Lektüre, Wiener Zeitung, June 17, 2005. On the recent Chaos Control 2005 conference (Vienna, June 15-16, 2005), especially Stevan Harnad's lecture making the case for self-archiving.
More on publishers v. Google Print. Stephanie Merritt, Just how small is a snippet?The Guardian, June 26, 2005. Excerpt: 'Nigel Newton, chief executive of Bloomsbury, made an impassioned speech last month, calling Google's plans a 'Pandora's box', and urging publishers to look at alternative ways to exploit the inevitable move to digitised texts, such as establishing individual databases which Google's search engines could trawl for a fee. US publishers had appeared more enthusiastic than their British counterparts, with few British trade publishers willing to sign up until they know exactly how Google plans to distribute their content and what kind of payment will be offered. But the news that the AAP is to question Google on the legality of its plans suggests that the transition to downloadable books fully may not be as smooth as the media giant had anticipated. Many US publishers are asking whether Google has any right to scan a copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright holder. This problem applies primarily to the Library Project, under which two libraries involved, at the Universities of Michigan and Stanford, have agreed to let Google scan works that remain in copyright with the publisher. For authors, the value of Google Print is more problematic. If your book is published by one of the less prominent houses and is unlikely to be found in the average Waterstone's, surely it's to your advantage to have it available to online browsers? Academic publishers, which often lose out in high street sales, clearly believe so, with both Oxford and Cambridge University Presses already signed up to Google Print. The value of an online presence depends, of course, on how Google defines 'a snippet' of content, although it remains adamant that online access to partial text, with links to online booksellers for people who like what they see and want to buy the whole, can only be beneficial to writers and publishers in terms of sales.'
Connecting CiteULike and AnthroSource. Anthropologists are looking for ways to make CiteULike work with AnthroSource. For details, see this blog posting by Rex on Savage Minds.
ERIC adds content and features. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), one of the oldest and largest databases of OA resources in any field, has just announced some enhancements to the collection. ERIC now supports nested boolean searching and other search improvements, has added new content, and keeps a list of the journals indexed in ERIC.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/01/2005 12:21:00 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.
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.
