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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 January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
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 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. |
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 February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
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 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 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 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 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. |
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. |
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 July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
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. |
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 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. |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Information Today May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
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 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 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. |
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... |
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? |
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 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... |
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. |
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
Information Today June 23, 2003 Robin Peek |
NLM Proposes New Journal Standards The Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (JAIDTD) is freely available for public use and creates a standard that, if broadly adopted, could signal a significant sea change in the future of scholarly journals. |
Information Today March 13, 2014 |
Thieme Introduces OA Platform It aggregates Thieme's OA articles on a single platform that is permanently available online for free. |
Information Today March 25, 2014 |
DOAJ Updates Application Form The Directory of Open Access Journals form now includes as many quality indicators as possible as well as extensive information about the journals that publishers need to supply. |
Information Today October 25, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Thomson Reuters Announces Book Citation Index--Scheduled for Release in 2Q 2011 Thomson Reuters announced a new product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes. Vice president for editorial development and publisher relations, James Testa, talks about the story behind this announcement. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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 February 7, 2011 |
Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 |
New Scholarly Journal ticTOCs Service Launches It's free, it's easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of more than 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. |
D-Lib April 2003 Elizabeth Yakel |
Enhancing the Marketplace of Archival Ideas Review of two journals - Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information and the Journal of Archival Organization |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Half of all papers from 2011 are open access Open access publishing is growing far faster than previously thought, according to a new report prepared for the European commission. The sample included material from online databases, such as Scopus and PubMed, as well as the websites of publishers, institutions and researchers. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Information Today July 31, 2014 |
Brill Announces New OA Journals Brill launched a suite of four online-only, open access journals in humanities, social sciences, law, and biology. |
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 September 3, 2001 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web... |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Information Today September 8, 2011 |
HighWire Introduces Five-Star Article Rating Feature on SAGE Open HighWire Press once again demonstrates its support of independent scholarly publishers with a tool designed for open access publications. |