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D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
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 November 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
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. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Stevan Harnad |
No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. |
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 June 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
PeerJ Launches with a New Business Model for Open Access Publishing PeerJ, launched on June 12, 2012 amid a great deal of buzz, has introduced a new approach into the mix with a two-pronged strategy that includes membership fees to cover costs and ongoing peer-review responsibilities for authors to retain membership. |
Information Today October 16, 2008 Susanne Bjorner |
Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price. |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
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 March 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Information Today May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
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. |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Information Today December 8, 2003 Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
D-Lib January 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
Information Today September 21, 2009 Robin Peek |
A Compact for Open Access Publication Announced Open-access publishing promises to put more research in more hands and in more places around the world. This is a good enough reason for universities to embrace the guiding principles of this compact. |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today May 23, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
Dialogue Over Public Access to Scholarly Publications Continues in the U.S. The conversation surrounding OA and public access today is vastly different from 5 years ago when the NIH policy was passed. The conversation in general has shifted from whether OA is a good thing to how to best implement it |
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 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. |
Information Today October 13, 2015 |
The Open Library of Humanities Debuts The Open Library of Humanities, an organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no charges to authors, launched after 2 years of planning. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
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 August 20, 2013 Barbara Quint |
OA Rules at the University of California The largest public research university in the world recently committed all of its 10 campuses to open access. |
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 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 |
D-Lib October 2002 Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
D-Lib June 2004 Donald W. King |
Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? If open access by author payment is in fact an optimum model, there must be some way to demonstrate it other than by the trickle approach now taking place. |
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. |
D-Lib February 2006 Titia van der Werf-Davelaar |
Facilitating Scholarly Communication in African Studies A look at the aspects of the transformation in academic publishing, looking at it from the perspective of the Africanist community in the Netherlands. |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
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. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 David Shotton |
The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles. |
Information Today November 17, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 Laura Howes |
New publishing models test the water Two new companies have launched in the biomedical field to take the academic publishing industry further into uncharted territory. How they suceed may affect the whole industry. |
Information Today March 26, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Meeting Reflections -- SPARC 2012 The SPARC Open Access Meeting was held March 12-13, 2012. in Kansas City, Mo. More than 200 people attended to discuss a host of OA themes including policy issues, author rights, OA publishing, and repositories. |
Information Today Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
Information Today January 17, 2012 Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |