SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced that the theme for this year’s 8th International Open Access Week will be “Open for Collaboration.” The theme highlights the ways in which collaboration both inspires and advances the Open Access movement—from the partnerships behind launching initiatives such as PLOS and ImpactStory, to the working relationships…
(3 March 2015) The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) started its second year of operation and celebrates the publication of the first 5,000 articles. More than 18,000 scientists from 86 countries have benefited from this open access initiative, publishing articles at no direct costs. All these open access articles have…
23 February 2015) The EIFL Open Access Programme and the EIFL Licensing Programme will hold a joint webinar to show how to search for and find Open Access e-resources. Dom Mitchell from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Ronald Snijder from the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) will present their respective platforms and answer any questions. DOAJ is…
(11 February 2015) A series of seminars will bring together stakeholders from various academic and research institutions in Myanmar to discuss and lay strategies for implementing open access to research outputs. As part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project, EIFL, University of Mandalay, University of Yangon and Yadanabon University will host a series of seminars “Open…
(January 2015, Oxford) The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, KEMÖ), and Taylor & Francis Group have today announced a two year pilot which will offset article publishing charges paid by the Austrian Science Fund against subscription costs for KEMÖ members. This offset amount will be used by the Austrian…
(21 January 2015) Cultural Science Journal has published a full report on the KU Pilot project (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2014, ISSN 1836-0416). “Knowledge Unlatched: A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books. Full Report on the Proof-of-Concept Pilot 2014” provides information about the Knowledge Unlatched proof-of-concept Pilot, which took place between January…
(19 December 2014) Within the overall framework of UNESCO Strategy on Open Access to scientific information and research and to take forward UNESCO’s leadership role in diffusing knowledge amongst its Member States, UNESCO has developed a set of manuals to facilitate capacity building of library and information professionals and researchers. The OA curricula developed by…
(16 December 2014) Journal publishing models are changing rapidly, especially in the UK. This Jisc podcast looks at the pressing need for institutions to track the true cost of article processing charges (APCs) so they can manage their transition to open access from a position of authority and monitor their costs effectively. A link to…
(4 December 2014) OASPA has introduced “Getting the credit,” a new set of proposed principles and basic use cases for open-access publishers to use, test, and expand on in order to support scholars. OASPA members are invited to help test and expand on this important new set of use cases and principles for the attribution…
(3 December 2014) Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Libraries Consortium, Books for Asia (The Asia Foundation Mongolia) and Books for Mongolia (American Center for Mongolian Studies) will host a seminar “Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Mongolia” on December 11, 2014. The objective of the seminar is to bring together stakeholders from…
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