Open Access For All Ciar McCormick argues that scholarly research should be available for all to access on the internet
“The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.”
American Association for the Advancement of Science Selects Copyright Clearance Center to Handle Article Processing Charges for Its First Online, Fully Open Access Journal
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, has chosen the RightsLink for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, to handle Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Science Advances.Science Advances, AAAS’s first online, fully Open Access journal, features well-executed, important research across the entire range of scholarly pursuits, including computer, engineering, environmental life, mathematical, physical, and social sciences.
RightsLink for Open Access streamlines the entire author fee transaction for Open Access charges, page charges, color charges, and more, giving publishers a robust pricing, discount and collections engine. It will work with AAAS’s manuscript management and production systems through CCC’s integration with Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager, which allows scholarly publishers a seamless way to collect APCs from within the Editorial Manager workflow. This will provide AAAS’s authors an easy-to-use platform for submitting publication charges.
World’s Largest General Scientific Society to Use RightsLink® for Open Access to Streamline the Entire Author Fee Transaction for Science Advances
Barnard faculty frustrated by plans to remove 40,000 books from library
“How are we conceptualizing the role of the library as it relates to the mission of the college? Twenty first-century colleges are made up of all kinds of media—that’s a fact and that’s, generally speaking, a good thing—but I think the concern really has to do with what the balance is of different kinds of resources for an institution like ours and what are the criteria that are being used to decide how that balance is being established for us?” Castelli said.The Digital Einstein Papers gives public access to Albert's life
For die-hard Albert Einstein fans
that have always wanted to know more about the life of reputable
theoretical physicist, a massive new archive
of digitised files stemming from his life and works will let you do
just that.
Released 5 December by Princeton University, the project,
entitled The Digital Einstein Papers is an open-access
site for all the papers that Einstein ever wrote.
Princeton University has created and released an open-access collection of thousands of documents by theoretical physicist and philosopher of Science Albert Einstein.
MOSCOW, December 6 (Sputnik) Princeton University Press has unveiled its Digital Einstein Papers collection, an open-access site containing thousands of documents by famous theoretical physicist and philosopher of science Albert Einstein, the New York Times reported.
A collaborative project to study over 80,000 documents left behind by Albert Einstein has been underway since 1986, jointly carried out by Princeton and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Einstein willed the latter university the rights to his work. The online project has made about 5,000 documents available. Published earlier in book form, the papers presently comprise 13 volumes; a total of 30 volumes are planned. Thousands more documents will become available over time as they are studied and categorized by scholars.
Princeton University has created and released an open-access collection of thousands of documents by theoretical physicist and philosopher of Science Albert Einstein.
MOSCOW, December 6 (Sputnik) Princeton University Press has unveiled its Digital Einstein Papers collection, an open-access site containing thousands of documents by famous theoretical physicist and philosopher of science Albert Einstein, the New York Times reported.
A collaborative project to study over 80,000 documents left behind by Albert Einstein has been underway since 1986, jointly carried out by Princeton and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Einstein willed the latter university the rights to his work. The online project has made about 5,000 documents available. Published earlier in book form, the papers presently comprise 13 volumes; a total of 30 volumes are planned. Thousands more documents will become available over time as they are studied and categorized by scholars.
December 5, 2014
The Einstein Papers Project,
the decades-long effort to compile and preserve the scientist’s professional work and personal writings, is today opening to the public as a free searchable database containing thousands of documents.
The launch of the Digital Einstein Papers
includes more than 5,000 documents that span the first 44 years of
Albert Einstein’s life. As the organizations collaborating on the
project -- the California Institute of Technology (the project’s home),
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (which houses the Albert Einstein
Archives) and Princeton University Press -- work to sort through tens of
thousands of articles and letters, the website will grow to one day
feature what the publisher said may be the first free digital collection
of a prominent scientist’s complete works.
“The best Einstein source is now available to everyone,
everywhere through the web,” said John D. Norton, a University of
Pittsburgh professor of history and philosophy of science who wrote his
dissertation on the history of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
“This is a great moment for Einstein scholarship.”
What Is the Point of Academic Books?
So perhaps the goal isn’t commercial
success, but the dissemination of knowledge? That seems
reasonable—except for the fact that university press books are quite
pricey. My own book is around $25 for a paperback—not exorbitant, but a long way from free. Other academic interest books can induce sticker shock; Adam Jones’ wonderful Gender Inclusive
is just shy of $50 on Amazon for the paperback; the hardback is a
whopping $135. Even $50 is enough to buy a coffee-table book indulgence,
not a slim paperback non-fiction volume, however brilliant. (And Jones’
book isn’t even published by an academic press; it’s by Routledge.)
So if academic books aren’t exactly
commercial endeavors, and they aren’t exactly providing knowledge for
the masses, what are they doing, exactly?
What price open access?
15 December 2014According to conservative estimates, the UK’s higher education institutions are paying £160m per year for subscriptions to peer-reviewed academic journals; Research Libraries UK (RLUK) puts the figure even higher, at £192m. These are significant ongoing costs that reflect the central importance to UK research of having the widest possible access to articles in scholarly journals.
Moving On, Open Access and Science Communication Impact
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/absolutely-maybe/2014/12/15/moving-on-open-access-and-science-communication-impact/Still, it’s relatively easy to be an open access advocate, when you’re a senior scientist who long ago opted for the public science agency road. There was one last tie to that world, though, and it’s been increasingly uncomfortable: blogging for a part of the Nature Publishing Group. It’s been a privilege to be part of a magazine with such a long history
Ethics network that seeks free and open communications turns 10
"Globethics.net has grown during the last 10 years on the basis of a commitment to open access, to the sharing of knowledge and information," for the benefit of all," said the founder of Globethics.net, Christoph Stückelberger.
"The need and the demand are there for resources that are freely available, especially in developing and emerging economies."
Is Nature’s Move to "Free" Publishing a Step Toward Open Access?
The journal Nature announced last week it will offer free access to a number of its articles online.It’s a move the journal said is a result of research funders "increasingly mandating that scientists make their papers free to read, download and reuse," but there are some strings attached. Articles can’t be copied, printed, or downloaded. They need to be read in a proprietary screen-view format, and can only be accessed through a special type of link.
Nature Communications becomes open-access journal
All articles submitted from 20 October 2014 will be published under an open-access model. The publication costs for authors will amount to USD 5,200 ...
‘Nature’ journals now free, as open access gains steam
The public now has unprecedented access to dozens more research journals, including the prestigious Nature, as publisher Macmillan announced that 49 of its titles will be available through a free content-sharing model, writes Jeff John Roberts for Gigaom.
Under the terms of a one-year pilot programme, journal subscribers and media outlets will be able to create links to articles from the journals – which also include Nature Medicine and Nature Genetics – on ReadCube, a platform for viewing and annotating PDFs, and share them with anyone on the web.
“[It] marks an attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while preserving [Nature Publishing Group or] NPG’s primary source of income – the subscription fees libraries and individuals pay to gain access to articles,” the publisher explained.
Full report on the Gigaom site
‘Nature’ journals now free, as open access gains steam
The public now has unprecedented access to dozens more research journals, including the prestigious Nature, as publisher Macmillan announced that 49 of its titles will be available through a free content-sharing model, writes Jeff John Roberts for Gigaom.
Under the terms of a one-year pilot programme, journal subscribers and media outlets will be able to create links to articles from the journals – which also include Nature Medicine and Nature Genetics – on ReadCube, a platform for viewing and annotating PDFs, and share them with anyone on the web.
“[It] marks an attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while preserving [Nature Publishing Group or] NPG’s primary source of income – the subscription fees libraries and individuals pay to gain access to articles,” the publisher explained.
Full report on the Gigaom site
Macmillan may now offer ‘free access’, but is it really open?
Earlier this week the publisher Macmillan announced (in somewhat breathless prose) that subscribers to 49 of its Nature journals would be able to share links to the full text of articles that would otherwise be locked behind a subscription paywall.
JournalClick Launches Library Services for the Open Access World
Tuesday, December 9th 2014
At its core, JournalClick automates the
work of finding relevant research and sends content directly to
libraries and their users. While manual searching is incredibly valuable
JournalClick’s ability to push relevant articles as they are published
is set to help searchers save a huge amount of time as well as ensure
that they have access to all the latest content at their fingertips.
Read more at
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2014/12/09/journalclick-launches-library-services-open-access-world#Zh0cyixYwAmYwCD7.99
Open access and the direction of travel in scholarly publishing
The subscription model was founded on a great leap forward in technology
– the printing press – and has served the research community well for
over 300 years. The quid pro quo in which authors and reviewers
worked for free while publishers took care of the technical side of
production and distribution, and covered their costs by charging
subscriptions, worked well – or well enough – for all that time. But the
digitisation of words and images, the ease-of-use of modern software
and the awesome dissemination power of the web has prompted a
reassessment of research publishing and of the relationship between
researchers and publishers. The web is also expanding the demand for
research publications among special interest groups such as
policymakers, small businesses, charities and the general public. These
groups increasingly want access, either directly or mediated by news
outlets or bloggers who have access to the literature and the ability to
recast it into more digestible forms.
The rise of patient peer review
When
it comes to clinical research, the participation of the people being
treated—the patients—usually ends by the time the study is submitted to a
journal. A few U.K.-based publishers are now looking to change that.
Last month, BioMed Central, an open-access publisher, announced that in 2015 it will launch the journal Research Involvement and Engagement, which will closely collaborate with patients in all aspects of its editorial processes, including peer review.Open access and the direction of travel in scholarly publishing
The subscription model was founded on a great leap forward in technology – the printing press – and has served the research community well for over 300 years. The quid pro quo in which authors and reviewers worked for free while publishers took care of the technical side of production and distribution, and covered their costs by charging subscriptions, worked well – or well enough – for all that time. But the digitisation of words and images, the ease-of-use of modern software and the awesome dissemination power of the web has prompted a reassessment of research publishing and of the relationship between researchers and publishers. The web is also expanding the demand for research publications among special interest groups such as policymakers, small businesses, charities and the general public. These groups increasingly want access, either directly or mediated by news outlets or bloggers who have access to the literature and the ability to recast it into more digestible forms.
The rise of patient peer review
The new journal aims to capture the contributions of nonacademics to scientific research; according to Stephens, academic evaluation of public and patient involvement in science has been conducted for many years, but no journal was devoted to the theme, commonly known as PPI. The backers of the new journal point to a 2010 paper in Health Expectations as the type of work they hope to publish. The study offered guidelines for appraising the quality and impact of user involvement in published papers and grant applications. The guidelines represented a collaboration between patients and academics—several authors were patients. But according to Daniel Shanahan, associate publisher for medical evidence at BioMed Central in London, the study would have benefited from patient peer review. “In the case of this article, a lay reviewer would have been able to offer valuable insights as to the quality and potential impact of user involvement, which would help improve the overall quality of the article,” he suggests.
Springer and Simula join forces to provide free eBooks on computing
New open access book series Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing introduces essentials of computing science.Springer and Simula have launched a new book series, Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing, which aims to provide introductions to select research in computing. The series presents both a state-of-the-art disciplinary overview and raises essential critical questions in the field. Published by SpringerOpen, all Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing are open access, allowing for faster sharing and wider dissemination of knowledge. Under this agreement and model, authors also retain copyright.
Open Access in Europe
A number of organisations committed to open access, including OpenAIRE, recently endorsed the overarching need for immediate access to research articles in an online statement. This was initiated by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and one of the outcomes of the recent Aligning Repository Networks Meeting.
In October 2013 Italy enacted a law containing the first national regulations about the open-access availability of publicly-funded research results (publications).This contribution examines how these new regulations match with the specific situation of that open-access pioneering discipline which is astrophysics.
LibGuide on Open Access (OA), Access to Knowledge (A2K) and Scholarly Communication
LibGuide on Open Access (OA), Access to Knowledge (A2K) and Scholarly Communication. I hope you will find these resources useful. Should you have any queries, or should you want to add other useful references to this Guide, please contact Denise Nicholson (see Profile for details)
Amsterdam, July 23, 2014
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that QUOSA, its literature management solution, and Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) have extended their relationship to support greater compliance in the use of full text articles within corporate or institutional environments. Using CCC's rights advisory API, QUOSA customers who are also CCC licensees can view their license rights directly from QUOSA at no extra cost to the user. - See more at: http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/science-and-technology/quosa-and-copyright-clearance-center-expand-access-to-compliant-literature-with-integrated-rights-management#sthash.8oh8D2sx.dpuf
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