(28 April 2014, Bellingham, Washington, USA) Research articles by authors at Max Planck Society institutes that are published in SPIE journals will be open access under a new agreement with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Under the agreement, the Max Planck Society will pay open access fees for articles submitted by researchers…
(29 March 2014) Jisc today welcomed the announcement by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for Employment and Learning that from 2016 they will expect all articles submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system for assessing the quality of research, to be…
(6 February 2014) The SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)—a joint initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)—today released the SHARE Notification System Project Plan (PDF). The plan details the first in a series of activities to be undertaken by…
ALPSP has launched a new online resource center on open access, hosted by, and in partnership with Copyright Clearance Center. “ALPSP members are committed to making content open access in the way their research communities need it, but keeping track of current thinking and policy developments on open access from across the globe can seem…
(18 December 2013) If you missed this webinar ACS has thoughfully uploaded it. Use this link (http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=719199&s=1&k=C0C33B8E28BEDF036E2AFECA0FCFCA32), then complete the registration fields, hit register, and choose “launch” on the next screen to view.
(5 December 2013, Geneva) CERN has announced that after intense preparations and consensus building, SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start on 1 January 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will become open access at no cost for any author;…
(20 November 2013) What do those open access colours mean? This panel discussion from Open Access Week in Australia, explores the various aspects of open access including: open educational resources, open data, and the perspectives of an open access journal editor and publisher of an eBook. Panelists include: Professor Shirley Alexander, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching, Learning…
(24 October 2013) The Open Access Licenses and Agreements Task Force has announced the release of a new report, Open Access Clauses in Publishers’ Licenses: Current State and Lessons Learned. The report presents the results of a review of licenses that secure the rights for authors and/or their institutions to deposit published articles into an OA repository. As Open Access…
(21 October 2013) Flinders University Library is once again supporting International Open Access week (21-27 October). In addition to an Open Access Lounge the library has prepared a LibGuide to important information about Open Access. Read more here.
(18 October 2013) Two weeks ago today DOAJ published an initial response to the John Bohannon ‘sting’ article published in Science Magazine. (See here). The response came a day after the article’s embargo broke, while Twitter, blogs and news sites were excitedly discussing the article’s implications, the shortcomings of its methodology and the failings. Now…
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