“Trashbird1240″ has a new post questioning the benefits of open access. From the post:
After doing a little research and hearing a few opinions, I will not advocate Open Access for right now, the way I advocate free software. I will tell people “Free Software is better for personal and academic liberty, and creates a society with better values.” I can’t say the same things in support of Open Access.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, openness
Kim West has a new post about open access in Africa. From the post:
Open Access journals allow unrestricted access to this information to anyone, but despite the obvious benefits OA has for low income countries, currently only 1% of journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)come from Africa.
The Search Principle Blog posted a video of Steve Harnad discussing “Impact Metrics of Open Access.”
The University of Kansas has issued a press release outlining their efforts towards open access. Although the glossy phrasing of press release may be distracting, there are some interesting ideas for promoting open access. From the press release:
To help encourage more departments and faculty members to make their research available via open access, the libraries have identified early adopters and “open access liaisons.”
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open content, openness
Michael Patrick Rutter has a new post introducing the Open Access movement. From the post:
One problem, explains Martha “Marce” Wooster, head of SEAS’s Gordon McKay Library, is the lack of any “algorithm a librarian can use to determine what journals to keep or cut,” whether based on price or need for access.
Thanks to the OA Tracking Project for the link.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, open content, openness, research
Mike Masnick has a new post about a recent conference of Brazilian librarians. At the conference librarians expressed concern about access to knowledge.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, open content, Open Education, openness, research
mBiosphere has a new post discussing recent research suggesting open access articles are downloaded more frequently. From the post:
…articles published as open-access were cited just as often as the subscription-access articles, but the kicker is that they were downloaded more frequently.
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Tagged Internet, journal, library, OATP, open access, open content
A series of news items relating to open access.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, open content, openness
John Willinsky has a new post about students pushing for open access at the University of British Columbia. From the post:
…they were meeting with student organizations and sitting on faculty and librarian committees, looking for ways of promoting a policy at UBC by which all of the faculty and graduate students would do their best to make copies of their published work freely available.
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Tagged commons, higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access
Anita de Waard has posted a paper on the publishing scientific research without journals. From the paper:
Papers, in their current format, are disjunct from experimental artifacts; they contain images that have been loosely derived from the research data, but there is no way for a reader to click on an image and see the spreadsheets, the calculations, the image bank or processing steps that went into producing that image.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, open content, openness, research
