Apr 29, 2008
You pay... and now they display

Apr 28, 2008
Reminder About the NIH Public Access Policy

Apr 25, 2008
That Book Costs How Much?

Apr 23, 2008
Nguyen on keeping data open and free

Apr 22, 2008
EC recommends OA for publicly-funded research

Apr 22, 2008
Jorum to move to open access
It was announced today that Jorum, the UK national repository for learning and teaching materials funded by JISC, is to offer open educational resources. This will make it easier for lecturers and teaching staff to share and re-use each other’s teaching resources.

Apr 15, 2008
Announcing a new BioMed Central journal

Apr 15, 2008
Open Textbooks Statement to Make Textbooks Affordable

Apr 15, 2008
Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Embracing Openness
Global initiatives and startling successes hint at the profound implications of open access on journal publishing

Apr 12, 2008
University of Southampton announces institutional Open Access mandate

Apr 11, 2008
Maine InfoNet has joined SCOAP3

Apr 11, 2008
Publishers' policies on the NIH Public Access Policy
The University of Rochester Medical Center has a page of Publishers’ Policies on the NIH Public Access Policy.

Apr 10, 2008
Repository66 map updated

Apr 10, 2008
Theses For All

Apr 9, 2008
NIH compliance/Author self-archiving policy

From Peter Suber’s Open Access News blog: 

 

• It appears that authors may self-archive to their own web sites without delay.  That’s good, especially if the author’s “own web site” —nearly always hosted by the institution— includes his/her segment of the institutional repository.  If Springer insists on a distinction between the author’s web site and the author’s niche in the IR, then it’s retreating from full green and from its previous self-archiving policy.

• Demanding the full 12 month embargo at PMC is permitted by NIH and mitigated by the option for immediate OA through the author’s web site.

• I’m a little surprised that Springer wants a link to the generic Springer home page rather than a deep link —preferably, a DOI-based deep link— to the published version of the article itself.  Doesn’t it want to help readers of the self-archived edition find the published edition?

Apr 8, 2008
Stirling research goes global
From Peter Suber’s Open Access News Blog:  The Stirling policy is not only the first university-level OA mandate in the UK, but the second worldwide (after Harvard’s) to be adopted by faculty rather than administrators.  Moreover, it’s detailed and strong.  I’m especially glad to see that it requires deposit “immediately upon acceptance for publication” even if it permits delayed OA “until the item has been published, and until any publishers’ or funders’ embargo period has expired.”  Kudos to all involved.

Apr 8, 2008
Free Online College Courses Are Proliferating
Wall Street Journal on open educational resources

Apr 8, 2008
Microsoft Word add-in for NLM format
Prepares articles in the XML format of the National Library of Medicine

Apr 8, 2008
Clinical knowledge: from access to action
The Lancet, *Available to subscribers only 

Apr 8, 2008
Information Liberation
The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2008

Apr 8, 2008
ASERL Supports SCOAP3

Apr 8, 2008
The Audacity of SCOAP3

Apr 8, 2008
2 books by Prof. Boyer now online in Institutional Repository
University of Delaware, February 19, 2008

Apr 8, 2008
A new OSI-supported OA source book
EPT, February 29, 2008

Apr 8, 2008
SCOAP3: A New Model for Scholarly Communication

ARL Releases Preprint Essay