John Bohannon reports on a spoof paper concocted by Science which had little or no scrutiny at many open access journals. Read the worrying but entertaining story here. It appears in Science 4 October 2013: Vol. 342 no. 6154 pp. 60-65
(7 October 2013) The Royal Society of Chemistry today announces a new subject-based repository that will make it easier for researchers to find and share relevant journal articles and data from a single point of access. David James, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Executive Director of Strategic Innovation, said: “The Chemical Sciences Repository will offer…
Science’s Special Issue on Communication in Science: Pressures and Predators includes free news and reviews on the lack of scrutiny at open-access journals, the rarity of published negative studies, and publishing sensitive data. As a service to the community, AAAS is making these articles free to the public. Read the Special Issue here.
Sridhar Gutam has posted the full policy on Open Access adopted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) ICAR adopts Open Access Policy. Each ICAR institute is to setup an Open Access Institutional Repository. ICAR shall set up a central harvester to harvest the metadata and full-text of all the records from all the…
From 21-27 October the global academic and research community will come together to celebrate Open Access Week, reports Liber. Learn more on the Open Access Week website, or watch a video here for a brief introduction to Open Access. Read an announcement here.
(10 September 2013) The House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee has today published a critical report on the Open Access (OA) policy introduced on April 1st by Research Councils UK (RCUK). In his blog Open and Shut?, Richard Poynder reports on the latest report from the UK Government on open access policy.…
(4 September 2013) Read theInternational Council for Scientific and Technical Information, ICSTI’s submission to the 25 September ICSU Meeting in Paris, the aim of which is to define ICSU’s policies on open access to information and data, and the use of metrics as incentives and performance measures. Submission here.
BASE, the multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant OAI-Sources worldwide, which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library, has hit the 50 million records mark. The records are provided by about 2,700 repositories worldwide. In this year alone, about 10,000,000 records have been indexed. BASE makes it possible to search for more than 50,000,000…
(Brussels, 17 July 2013) The European Commission today outlined measures to improve access to scientific information produced in Europe. Broader and more rapid access to scientific papers and data will make it easier for researchers and businesses to build on the findings of public-funded research. This will boost Europe’s innovation capacity and give citizens quicker…
(20 August 2013) Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) and recently appointed director of the Harvard Library’s Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), in conjunction with the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) – headquartered in Harvard Square has been working to provide global access to more than 17,000 volumes of Tibetan literature.…
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