News from the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)
The OATP is a social tagging project to capture new OA developments comprehensively and in real time.
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Scholarly Communications: Selected News 2012 - 2013
New directive requires federal agencies to support increased public access to federally funded research (Feb 2012)
"The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government. This includes any results published in peer-reviewed scholarly publications that are based on research that directly arises from Federal funds..." Full text of the directive.
An emerging consensus for open evaluation: 18 visions for the future of scientific publishing (Oct 2012)
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Alexander Walther and Diana Deca D. An emerging consensus for open evaluation: 18 visions for the future of scientific publishing. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 6:94, 2012 doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00094
OA journals in biomedicine are approaching the same scientific impact and quality as subscription journals (July 2012)
Bo-Christer Björk and David Solomon. Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact. BMC Medicine, 2012
"The scientific impact of articles published in open access (OA) and subscription journals are similar when journal discipline, location of publisher and age of publication are compared, which is particularly true in medicine and health, where OA journals founded in the last 10 years receive on average as many citations as subscription journals launched during the same time." (Editor's Summary)
Georgia State E-reserves Case (May 2012)
- Long-Awaited Ruling in Copyright Case Mostly Favors Georgia State U., Chronicle of Higher Education
- The GSU decision — not an easy road for anyone, Kevin Smith, JD, Scholarly Communications @ Duke
Harvard Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing (April 2012)
"We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive. This situation is exacerbated by efforts of certain publishers (called “providers”) to acquire, bundle, and increase the pricing on journals..."
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Definitions
The Health Sciences Library supports Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Repositories as methods to encourage the widest possible access to scholarly content.
- Open Access
- Scholarly content made available free of charge to anyone upon publication.
- Open Archives
- Scholarly content in subscription publications made available free of charge after an initial embargo period.
- Open Repositories
- Digital collections of scholarly content on a particular subject or the collected intellectual works of an institution or group of institutions.
Resources for Learning More
- Open Access Scholarly Information SourcebookOASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise.
- Open Access (SPARC)Links and resources include guides, presentation materials, and handbooks produced by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and other organizations.
- Open Access DirectoryA compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.
- Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated BibliographyThis annotated bibliography lists studies and review articles that examine whether open access (OA) articles receive more citations than equivalent subscription; i.e., toll access (TA) articles. Wagner, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 2010.
- New Publishing Models BibliographyChapter 7 in Bailey's Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
- Repository Resources (SPARC)Guides, presentation materials, and handbooks produced by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and other organizations that may be helpful for those interested in establishing, accessing, or just learning about online repositories.
Support the DOAJ
Support the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Since the launch of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in May 2003, the service has received much attention from the library community all over the world. The number of journals included in the directory has risen from approximately 300 to over 7500 and the number is continuously growing. All content can be harvested and integrated into the library's own collection.
The University Library at Lund University has on a voluntary basis developed and operates the service. The development of the DOAJ has been partly funded by, amongst others, the Open Society Institute, but from January 1st 2007 no further significant funding was available. In the long run my organization can not commit to the necessary funding without external contributions. We thus rely on your support to DOAJ.
A DOAJ membership offers you a tremendous opportunity to generate goodwill and support the Open Access movement as well as earn the appreciation of librarians and publishers.
Björn Wittenmark
Acting Head Librarian
Lund University Libraries
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