Archive for the 'Open Access' Category
Open Access Encyclopedias
December 14th, 2009Inside Higher Ed – “Can an information source that is free also be reliable? Or does the price of content always reflect its value? In higher education, this debate usually takes place in the context of academic publishing, where open access journals have emerged to challenge their pricey print predecessors. This mirrors a wider trend [...]
Open access and the Google book settlement
December 2nd, 2009From Peter Suber
Universities launch Open Library Environment as Kuali Foundation Project
November 16th, 2009IU Press Release – “The Kuali Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce that a group of leading academic research libraries is partnering in the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) (pronounced Oh-LAY) project to develop software created specifically for the complex business management and workflow operations of academic and research libraries.”
More on OLE here
Amicus: Net-based scholarship on civil rights and civil liberties
October 22nd, 2009Berkman Center – “In the spirit of Open Access week and otherwise, Harvard’s Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is today launching a new online publication, Amicus”
Direct to Amicus
Penn Libraries’ New Website to Help Share Scholarship Online
October 20th, 2009UPenn – “The Penn Libraries ScholarlyCommons website has a new look and an expanded mission to help faculty promote their scholarship online. The site is being launched in conjunction with Open Access Week”
Direct to the new site
Open Access Week
October 19th, 2009Gary and Shirl have a rundown.
House takes step toward opening the CRS
October 15th, 2009Direct Dispatch – “Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-MD) recently introduced a bill, H.R. 3762, into the House of Representatives to make published Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports available to the public via the Internet.”
Article-level metrics at PLoS – addition of usage data
September 17th, 2009PLOS – “As part of our ongoing article-level metrics program, we’re delighted to announce that all seven PLoS journals will now provide online usage data for published articles. With this addition, the suite of metrics on PLoS articles now includes measures of: online usage; citations from the scholarly literature; social bookmarks; blog coverage; and the [...]
Transparency: Access to Information
June 10th, 2009The White House – “As part of the Open Government Initiative, the President tasked Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag with issuing an Open Government Directive to Federal agencies. The OMB Directive will be informed by recommendations being developed by the Chief Technology Officer. Consistent with the President’s goals of promoting government transparency, participation, [...]
Digitizing Books @ UConn
November 6th, 2008CogSci Librarian – “UConn is participating in an exciting project whereby we are digitizing pre-1923 / out-of-copyright books as part of the Boston Library Consortium / Open Content Alliance project, with a goal of scanning approximately 1500 UConn books a year.”
Open Access Day
October 14th, 2008Peter Scott – “October 14, 2008 is the world’s first Open Access Day.
Open-government advocate calls Ohio Supreme Court records panel unconstitutional
March 23rd, 2008Cleveland Plain Dealer – “Cleveland lawyer David Marburger, of the Ohio Coalition for Open Government, said a court- appointed commission drawing up rules on what court records the public should have access to does not have the constitutional authority to do so.” (via)
More about the org here.
Open Minds, Open Books, Open Source
February 19th, 2008Library Stories points to an article from Inside Higher Ed.
Learn from OA Librarians
August 26th, 2007OA Librarian – “This means that librarianship is already 30% of the way on the gold road, full open access publishing.”
