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Industry Round-up
May 23, 2008
OA speakers bureau The Open Access Directory (OAD) just opened an OA speakers bureau for community editing and enlargement.
May 15, 2008
The LJ Academic Newswire Newsmaker Interview: Shawn Martin, Penn’s New Scholarly Communication Librarian
May 13, 2008
Student video on Open Access Sean Kass, a third year Harvard law student, has released a 14 minute video, Open Access to Scholarly Publications. The video is a project in the course, The Web Difference, taught by John Palfrey and David Weinberger. (Thanks to Open Access News)
May 8, 2008
New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut (The Chronicle, May 7) Scholars in the sciences have been light-years ahead of their peers in the humanities in exploring the possibilities of open-access publishing. But a new venture with prominent academic backers, the Open Humanities Press, wants to help humanists close the gap...
May 8, 2008
LAUNCH OF OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS Open Access expands to humanities disciplines with a bold new publishing initiative in critical and cultural theory
May 7, 2008
Digital Libraries à la Carte Ticer’s new, modular course for librarians and publishers "Digital Libraries à la Carte" will be held at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 25-29 August 2008.
May 6, 2008
C&RL preprints go open access College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the bi-monthly scholarly journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is pleased to announce the launch of an open access, pre-publication service for accepted articles.
May 6, 2008
WHO IP And Health Group Concludes With Progress; Tough Issues Remain For Assembly From Gavin Baker: The article doesn't contain much news on the OA-related provisions of the plan, but it does contain a working link to the latest available draft (as of May 3). This permits comparison to the latest version available from the WHO (dated July 31, 2007). Of note is the language in element 2.4, not present in the previous version:
(b) promote public access to the results of government funded research, by strongly encouraging that all investigators funded by governments submit to an open access database an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts ... |