Rod Page has a new post on how to determine whether an article is openly available or not. From the post:
Some journals are entirely Open Access, so for these journals the first problem (is it Open Access?) is trivial, but a large number of journals have a mixed publishing model, some articles are Open Access, some aren’t.
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Katarina Lovrecic has a new post explaining why the University of Michigan library chose CC0. From the post:
John Wilkin, a librarian at the University of Michigan whose library recently dropped 700,000 books into the public domain with the CC Zero license, has made an interesting comment on this act. He compared bibliographic records made available all over the internet to so many flower seeds in the wind. We need to be careful not to end up with a “dispersed and diluted” action.
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Paul Jump is reporting on SAGE Open, which offer an open access publishing venue for articles in the social sciences and humanities.
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Deep Sea News has a new post making the case for open access. From the post:
A close friend of mine is the head science librarian for a university. His tales of dropping major journals as subscriptions rise is horrifying and all to common. Most universities are not increasing library budgets enough to meet drastic increases in journal subscriptions. Even well-funded, individual scientists can afford subscriptions to only a few journals thereby making much of the literature difficult at best to access.
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“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.
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JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing has a new issue on the future of university presses.
Timothy Vollmer has a new post noting that the University of Michigan has licensed its website CC BY.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, creative commons, higher education, library, openness
David Rapp has a new post relating what happened at the Open Data, Open Minds SPARC meeting. From the post:
The 2010 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) Digital Repositories Meeting this week managed to combine serious talk about the challenges of open data, examining both successes and failures, with an efficient and informative showcase, the Innovation Fair, featuring rapid-fire presentations of tools and services from institutional repositories (IR).
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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