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Information Today April 19, 2012 |
OAPEN Launches Beta Version of Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) announced the launch of the beta version of Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an open access license.  |
Information Today March 12, 2015 |
University of California Organizations Partner for Publishing Workflow Management System The University of California Press and the California Digital Library received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a content and workflow management system for publishing open access monographs.  |
Information Today January 16, 2014 |
Portico Partners With Knowledge Unlatched Portico announced an agreement with the open access initiative Knowledge Unlatched that will preserve Knowledge Unlatched's Pilot Collection of OA ebooks in Portico's E-Book Preservation Service.  |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content.  |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
IGI Global Starts OA Initiative Individuals and institutions will have unrestricted access to the selected titles.  |
Information Today February 18, 2014 |
EDP Open Promotes Gold OA Publisher EDP Sciences introduced EDP Open, a new open access imprint for its scientific titles that offers OA journals, books, and conference proceedings all published exclusively online.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Stevan Harnad |
United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research.  |
Information Today May 29, 2014 |
Knowledge Unlatched Rolls Out Pilot Results Its mission was to create a sustainable route to open access for specialist scholarly books by working with libraries and publishers to share the costs of OA.  |
Information Today October 13, 2015 |
NFAIS to Host OA-Focused Workshop The National Federation of Advanced Information Services announced its new workshop, The Impact of Open Access Models.  |
Information Today July 12, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces Energy & Power Source The database is designed to support the informational needs of energy and power industry professionals at all levels as well as academic researchers.  |
Information Today August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books.  |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
The National Science Foundation Recommits to Public Access to Research The National Science Foundation released its public access plan, "Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries," which is intended to accelerate research results dissemination.  |
Information Today July 10, 2014 |
Europe PMC Gains New OA Research WHO (World Health Organization) announced an open access policy in January 2014 that now applies to all WHO research published in external books and journals.  |
Information Today September 19, 2013 |
ICAR Transitions to OA The Indian Council of Agricultural Research recently joined the open access movement. It announced its intentions to implement an academic and research OA policy during the next 3 years.  |
Information Today July 12, 2012 |
IET Launches Open Access Engineering Megajournal This is part of the IET's continuing mission to make essential engineering intelligence available to the worldwide engineering community, benefitting researchers who contribute to or use this content.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 David Stern |
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Houghton & Swan |
Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold" This short paper sets out the main conclusions of our work, which was designed to explore the overall costs and benefits of Open Access for research results, as well as identify the most cost-effective policy basis for transitioning to OA at national and institutional levels.  |
Information Today August 2006 Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication.  |
Information Today September 22, 2015 |
NPG-Palgrave Macmillan Survey Shows Perceptions of OA Publishing The survey shows a growing confidence among scientists in the quality of open access publications.  |
Information Today November 2004 Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn.  |
Search Engine Watch November 18, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web.  |
Information Today August 27, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya For many researchers, faculty, and students, Google Scholar is the first search tool used, challenging the popularity and utility of veteran databases licensed by academic and corporate libraries.  |
Information Today September 3, 2013 |
OA Collection Welcomes Frontiers in Energy Research Frontiers, now part of Nature Publishing Group, introduced Frontiers in Energy Research as the newest addition to its open access journal collection.  |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product?  |
Information Today November 25, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8.  |
Information Today July 3, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year.  |
Information Today November 3, 2011 |
Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications.  |
Information Today September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season.  |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way.  |
Information Today May 27, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
How Will You Celebrate Open Access Week? International OA Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to share what they've learned and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make OA a new norm in scholarship and research.  |
Information Today September 17, 2012 |
Diverse OA Coalition Issues New Guidelines to Make Research Freely Available The recommendations were developed by leaders of the open access movement, which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research -- much of which is publicly funded.  |
Information Today December 19, 2013 |
UNESCO Broadens OA Policy UNESCO introduced an open access repository that makes more than 300 online books, reports, and articles in about 12 languages freely available on UNESCO's website.  |
Information Today May 2008 Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model.  |
Information Today May 20, 2013 |
UNESCO Publications to Be Free Under Open License Following a decision by the Executive Board in April, UNESCO became the first member of the U.N. to adopt such an open access policy for its publications.  |
Information Today November 4, 2014 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2014: Celebrating 'Generation Open' Generation Open, encouraged librarians, publishers, and OA advocates to consider openness through the lens of the newest generation of researchers.  |
Information Today April 7, 2015 |
Springer and Jisc Work Toward Sustainable OA Publishing Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc reached an agreement that helps U.K. scientists comply with multiple funders' open access policies.  |
Information Today March 31, 2015 |
Cogent OA Redefines APC Strategy Open access publisher Cogent OA introduced the Freedom APC (article processing charge) initiative.  |
Information Today January 23, 2014 |
Next-Generation Web of Science Goes Live The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters updated the Web of Science citation index with next-generation features.  |
Information Today November 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program.  |
Information Today March 17, 2015 Richard Huffine |
Distinctions Emerge in U.S. Government Plans for Expanding Access to Research Research funded by the U.S. government is finally going to be available for anyone to read and cite, based on plans laid out by the agencies that administer the funding  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better.  |
Information Today December 12, 2013 |
Palgrave Macmillan Takes New Step Toward OA Palgrave Macmillan joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, a trade organization that represents the interests of global open access journal publishers in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.  |
Information Today March 21, 2013 |
Reprints Desk, Inc. Announces New Open Access Filter Reprints Desk, Inc. announced the launch of a new Open Access filter for the company's document delivery service that is used by research-driven companies and institutions to acquire single copies of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.  |
Information Today October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets.  |
D-Lib June 2004 Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals.  |
Information Today October 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes.  |
Information Today October 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions On Oct. 11, 2012, the Copyright Clearance Center debuted its Open Access Solutions, a set of services aimed at supporting publishers in managing their journal content through the CCC's RightsLink platform.  |
Information Today August 6, 2015 |
Jisc Supports OA Efforts in Higher Education Jisc will work with universities and researchers to help meet requirements for open access in response to Research Councils UK reviewing its OA policy and HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) updating OA requirements.  |
Information Today October 27, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2015: 'Open for Collaboration' Libraries, universities, research institutes, publishers, research funding agencies, and individual OA advocates used the opportunity to talk, tweet, and share thoughts, success stories, and lessons learned about OA, open data, and open education.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2015 Ronald Snijder |
Evaluating the Impact of the FWF-E-Book-Library Collection in the OAPEN Library: An Analysis of the 2014 Download Data This paper analyzes the usage of the FWF-E-book collection in the OAPEN Library during 2014, in order to measure scholarly impact and societal relevance in the humanities and social sciences.  |