Stian Haklev has a new post discussing ongoing correspondence with an open access journal that appeared to have contradictory licensing conditions. From the post:
The blog post was really about a much more general trend, and I didn’t mean to attack e-Century as a “worst case”, but since I’d used them as an example, I felt it was fair to let them know about it.
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Peter Suber has released the latest SPARC Open Access Newsletter. The newsletter discusses the Federal Research Public Access Act (H.R. 5037), which would mandate open access to research funded in the US under certain circumstances. From the newsletter:
Just as Congress asked NIH to develop an OA mandate, without dictating the details, FRPAA asks agencies to come up with their own policies within the general guidelines laid down in the bill. It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution and agencies are free to differ on the details. They would have one year from the bill’s passage to frame their own policies.
David Wiley has also written a rebuttal to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce objections. It is also worth noting that the last post at Open Access News is now up. We at Open Education News want to thank Peter’s tireless efforts to report on open access.
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As a quick note, you can see links in the open access tracking project (OATP) on Tumblr. OEN has used OATP as a valuable resource for open access news.
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David Wiley has a new post on the “Pay-Twice Paradox,” in which he compares paying for journal articles to paying twice for other consumer goods. From the post:
…from my perspective some of the most important forms of openness are simply about obeying one of the standard laws of capitalism: if I pay for a good or service, I am entitled to the good or service. Could the market (or society) survive if we didn’t obey this rule?
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Steve Kolowich has a new article on efforts at the University of Rochester to encourage educators to contribute to institutional repositories. From the article:
The idea is to make publishing articles to the open repository a natural extension of the composition process, says Mike Bell, the assistant dean for information technology at Rochester’s River Campus libraries
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JISC has a new podcast on building the case for an open access policy. From the post:
A new report launched today (25 February 2010) shows how universities can work out how much they could save on their profit and loss accounts as well as increasing their contribution to UK plc when they share their research papers through Open Access.
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The UCSF Library has a short post on journal publisher Springer and their Open Choice program. From the post:
Since 2009, UCSF authors have been able to make articles they publish in over 2,000 Springer journals freely available to researchers throughout the world, without payment of any author fees.
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Kathleen J. Sullivan has written an article on a new program at Stanford that allows students to publish their dissertation digitally. From the article:
Most of the Stanford graduate students who uploaded their dissertations – 47 out of 60 – chose to display their dissertations in their entirety.
Most of the students – 52 out of 60 – selected the “attribution non-commercial” license from Creative Commons.
The article does note that some placed embargoes on the publication, presumably to maintain options for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, journal, library, OATP.new, online learning, open access, open content
Sean Connin has published an overview of open access. From the post:
In fact, many journals are offered only in subscription packages that force an institution to pay for accessory materials which may be of little interest to their community. Ideally, OA publications alleviate these costs and inefficiencies for libraries and their users.
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Yesterday OEN reported on a notice sent out by the Obama administration asking for public comment on open access. Fosters.com has noted that the request extends beyond education and applies beyond education. The Gov Monitor has also posted what appears to be a press release from the Department of Education offering more details. From Fosters.com:
Open government is not the work of any single office.
Thanks to schoolteaching on Twitter for one of the links.
