OpenURL is now live on DOAJ
(27 Spril 2015) After a hiatus of a year and a half, OpenURL is now fully functional on DOAJ again, upgraded from Version 0.1 to Version 1. More here.
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Duke University Press makes over 140 titles available in HathiTrust
(10 April 2015) Duke University Press, in partnership with Google and HathiTrust, has opened an initial set of 145 of its backlist titles in HathiTrust. These titles are available under a CC-BY-NC-ND license, and are available for reading and download worldwide. The list of newly opened titles is eclectic, covering subjects such as literature, history, critical theory, political science, sociology,…
Twelve exciting and important developments due for release by DOAJ
(8 April 2015) DOAJ has a busy year ahead. Among the deliverables are openURL, a landing page for every article, structured metadata, Google Scholar compatibility, subject browser and shareable, stable URLs. These and several more developments are described in detail here.
PASTEUR4OA report on policy effectiveness now online
(7 April 2015) PASTEUR4OA reports on the policy-effectiveness exercise undertaken by the project in view of providing evidence to assist open access policy development. Basis of this work was the rebuilding of ROARMAP, the open access policy registry, which was carried out by the project. A new classification scheme was built, allowing to record and…
DOAJ making improvements to data, UI and discoverability
(8 April 2015) By the end of April, DOAJ will have released 10 new upgrades or developments that we are working. These will cover the following areas: – reinstating OpenURL – giving every article its own landing page – structured metadata and Google Scholar compatibility – improved OAI-PMH – upgraded facets for searching and filtering…
The life and death of an open access journal: Q&A with Librarian Marcus Banks
31 March 2015) Marcus Banks is interviewed by Richard Poynder about the viability of open access journals. In the spotlight is Biomedical Digital Libraries, BDL, launched in 2003 by Yale University Medical Library and BioMed Central. Four years later, however, BDL succumbed to an increase in the cost of the article-processing charges it levied. This…
RCUK publishes first independent review of its open access policy
(26 March 2015) Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today published the first independent review of the implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open Access. Chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess, former University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, the review received an excellent response from the research community, with over 85 submissions of written evidence highlighting how the…
The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing sign open access agreement
(23 March 2015) The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSCL) and IOP Publishing (IOP) are delighted to announce the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding to support open access publications for Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers. The Memorandum indicates the commitment of both organisations to work together to create…
Open access and the request ePrint Button: Q&A with Eloy Rodrigues
(22 March 2015) Contrary to what one might expect, not all the items in open access repositories are publicly available. Estimates of the percentage of the content in repositories that is not in fact open access tend to range from around 40% to 60%. This will include bibliographic records containing only metadata, plus full-text documents…
New toolkit available from EIFL for training sessions on OA, open data and open science
(20 March 2015) Are you a student, researcher, librarian or policy maker planning any trainings on open access, open research data or open science? Check out the new FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) toolkit for training sessions. The toolkit, developed by EIFL, provides a number of tested and proven guides for organizing…