(Hoboken, NJ, 11 March 2013) Sixty-six journals will join John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in 2013. The titles include 52 journals moving to Wiley from other publishers or self-publication, and 14 new titles, of which eight are open access. The titles joining Wiley represent relationships with over 30 societies and associations. Included in the 52…
(31 January 2013) IFLA has joined with ICA, CCAAA, ICOM, ICOMOS and ICSTI in adopting the CDNL recommendations of Principles on Global Cross Sectoral Digitisation Initiatives. This long-term vision statement stresses the development of a globally distributed digital collections. These collections should be comprehensive, open, seamlessly-connected, and universally accessible on the Internet. They also should…
(22 February 2013) The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for, says Michael Stebbins, Assistant Director for Biotechnology at OSTP in a recent blog post. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has…
Open access legislation has been introduced to the U.S. Congress. Called The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act of 2013, it has some way to go before becoming law. The sponsors of FASTR argue that because tens of billions of government dollars result in tens of thousands of research papers annually –…
Cambridge University Press has announced that articles in its Open Access journals can be published with a Creative Commons Attribution licence (‘CC-BY‘).This licence allows users and readers to download, read, reuse and re-distribute freely, as long as they acknowledge the original article. Following the recommendations of the Finch report, research funders (such as RCUK and…
(13 February 2013) The last 15 places are available – register online1 for the first international discovery summit, in London on 21-22 February. Jisc and the British Library are calling university librarians and archivists, library staff, museum curators and expert developers from across the globe to ask ‘how is open data transforming the world’s great…
(18th January 2013) The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee today announces its intention to inquire into the Government’s Open Access policy. Written submissions addressing the UK Committee’s inquiry are invited by close of business on 7 February 2013. Respondees are requested not to submit copies of responses to other consultations or to the Finch Report.…
The Australian Research Council, ARC, has introduced a new open access policy for ARC funded research which takes effect from 1 January 2013. According to this new policy the ARC requires that any publications arising from an ARC supported research project must be deposited into an open access institutional repository within a twelve month period…
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced on 26 October the results of an author survey on open access, with over ten thousand respondents from across Wiley’s journal portfolio. The research explored the factors that authors assess when deciding where to publish, and whether to publish open access. Among the top factors considered by authors were…
The international medical publisher BMJ Group has launched six specialty editions of its innovative online journal BMJ Open (http://bmjopen.com/editions) to coincide with Open Access Week, 22-28 October. The editions showcase BMJ Open’s specialist research and will initially cover dermatology, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, neurology, obstetrics & gynaecology, and oncology. BMJ Open, which launched in February 2011,…
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