Ross Gardler has a new post questioning the influence of publishers on UK education policy. From the post:
As a result of the JISCs desire to understand reality, rather than succumb to marketing messages from big companies back in 2003, they have been instrumental in the creation of policies and practices which have started to level the playing field for open source suppliers in our sector.
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Tagged OATP, OATP.new, open access, open content, Open Education, open textbook, openness, policy
Leslie Chan has a new post discussing instances in which journals withdraw open access. From the post:
…several publishers have withdrawn access to health journals from the academic communities in Bangladesh has come as a wake-up call about the limitations of the HINARI programme.
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Tagged e-learning, OATP, online learning, open access, openness
Stevan Harnad has a new post about the difficulty behind getting authors to make individual copyright agreements for articles published. From the post:
It is the equivalent of trying to combat smoking by trying to persuade smokers to write individually to tobacco companies to ask them to manufacture fewer cigarettes.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Richard Poynder has posted an interview with Derk Haank, CEO of Spring Science and Business Media. From the interview:
Librarians need to accept that if they want access to a continually growing database, then costs will need to go up a little bit but not like in the days of the serials crisis. We try to accommodate our customers, but at a certain point, we will hit a wall.
Link and commentary by Barbara Fister.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
“Dr. Skeptic” has a new post on Nature Publications Group newly announced open access journal. From the post:
Whilst the entry of the Nature group of journals into the OA field definitely speaks volumes about the fact that the business model that was destined to have met with failure is not, in fact, such a destructive model.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OA, OATP, open access
Lisa Green has a new post on open access support from the Nature Publishing Group. From the post:
Last month, the company announced that an additional 15 of its journals now offer open access options. And this week, the company announced a brand new online open access journal called Scientific Reports. With this launch, a full 80% of NPG academic and society journals and 50% of all journals the company publishes offer open access options to authors
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, ocw, oer, open access, open content, Open Education, openness
Heather Morrison has a new post on measuring the growth and success of open access. From the post:
Why success rather than sustainability or cost-effectiveness?
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, open access, open content, Open Education, openness
Travis Kaya is reporting on the Right to Research Coalition. From the article:
The Right to Research Coalition, which says it represents student groups comprising 5.5 million members in the United States and several other countries, unveiled a Web site and blog in October to educate and connect students about open-access publishing, and increase pressure on publishers and scholars to make their work freely available online.
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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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Jan Erik Frantsvåg has published an article on the size of open access publishers. From the abstract:
In this article I first explore reasons to be sceptical to a situation with a large number of small publishers. Then I go through the numbers from the Directory of Open Access Journals, also discussing problems inherent in the material.
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