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Open, free access to academic research? This will be a seismic shift | David Willetts | Comment is free
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales will be helping ensure that the publicly funded portal promotes collaboration and engagement. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty My department spends about £5bn each year funding academic research – and it is because we believe in the fundamental importance of this research that we have protected the science budget for the whole of this parliament.
This is astonishing. Harvard is one of the best and one of the wealthiest universities in the world. But last week it announced that it can no longer afford to maintain its subscriptions to academic journals.
Harvard: we have a problem | Reciprocal Space
'Enriching' Open Access articles
I've been asked what the relevance is of my previous post to Open Access. The relevance of Utopia Documents to Open Access may not be immediately clear, but it is certainly there. Though Utopia Documents doesn't make articles open that aren't, it provides 'article-of-the-future-like' functionality for any PDFs, OA or not. It opens them up in terms of Web connectivity, as it were, and it is completely publisher-independent. So PDFs in open repositories – even informal, author-manuscript ones – and from small OA publishers can have the same type of functionality that hitherto only larger publishers could afford to provide, and then only for HTML versions of articles. PDFs are often getting a bad press, as you probably know, yet according to statistics from many publishers, PDFs still represent by far the largest share of scientific article downloads.This research project explores the effects of institutional open access mandates on institutional repositories in Higher Education Institutions in the UK and Germany. Therefore, it analyses the experiences, opinions, and expectations of institutional repository managers from both countries. Methodology : A thorough literature review and a questionnaire-based survey were conducted to gain background information regarding open access publishing, institutional repositories, and institutional open access mandates. Semi-structured follow-up interviews provide an in-depth insight into the views of institutional repository managers regarding the effects of institutional open access mandates.
The effects of open access mandates on institutional… « InfoDoc MicroVeille
SPARC Open Access Program and Speaker Slides (SPARC)
Timothy S. Deliyannides, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head, Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh Libraries [ slides ]
The recent Berlin 9 Open Access Conference 1 presented a striking reflection of the evolution of the scholarly community’s attitude towards open access. No debate, no controversy—this meeting of high-level research funders, policy makers, university administrators, librarians, publishers, and scholars focused squarely on the impact that open access can have on each phase of the research process. Hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and sponsored by a broad spectrum of organizations from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Marine Biological Laboratory to SPARC, the meeting underscored the central role that open access now plays as part of the research infrastructure in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in the hard sciences.
The impact of open access on research and scholarship
it’s time to abolish academic publishers « orgtheory.net
The Guardian reported that publishers like Springer, Elsevier and others make 42% profits . If you know anything about the business world, that’s amazing. And of course, commenters have been scandalized. In my view, there’s no crime in making a healthy profit by providing something that people willingly buy.
Gallezot RT @AmSciForum : The Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated Bibliography #oa #openaccess #repositories #universities #research http://bit.ly/OAadvan
GAGA06: "RT @AmSciForum: The Open ..." « Deck.ly
Aujourd’hui sort également aux éditions La découverte dans la collection Repères , le livre de Marin Dacos et de Pierre Mounier : L’édition électronique . « Un guide de voyage ressemble un peu à un instantané. À peine a-t-on imprimé le livre que la situation a déjà évolué. Les prix augmentent, les horaires changent, les bonnes adresses se déprécient et les mauvaises font faillite… » On connaît la mise en garde qu’un célèbre éditeur de guides de voyage adresse à ses lecteurs en tête de chacun des ouvrages qu’il publie.
L’édition électronique de Marin Dacos et Pierre Mounier | L'édit
