Open Acess
Awesome thoughts….http://www.gray-area.co.za/2012/04/13/academic-spring/
Continue reading about Academic spring – open access policies take the world by storm
The Directory of open Access Books has the primary aim of increasing discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can [...]
Provosts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin at Madison take a stand on Open Access. Read more: at Inside Higher Ed
Continue reading about Values and Scholarship an essay by 11 Research University Provosts
One of the world’s largest research charities, the Wellcome Trust, is to support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all. By changing its policies to promote open access to the scientific research its plans that 100 per cent of its funded research will eventually be made freely available to the public. [...]
Continue reading about Wellcome Trust to launch open access journal ELife
In this podcast, PSION speaks with Dr Mike Taylor. Dr Taylor is a palaeontologist and open access champion. We discuss key issues driving the open access movement e.g. increasing access to work, measuring impact and copyright. Listen here Links to topics discussed in the podcast: 1. Dr Taylor’s article in the Times Higher Education 2. [...]
