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October 28, 2004
Social Sciences and Humanities OA Data Provider Sites
Gerry McKiernan, Open Archives Data Providers: Part III. Social Sciences and Humanities, Library Hi-Tech News, September/October 2004. Sites reviewed are David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Documenting the American South, Ethnologue, and the Perseus Digital Library.
[Content found on Open Access News blog.]
Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:29 AM
October 26, 2004
NIH and Access to Research- FAQ
A FAQ page has been created about Enhanced Public Access to NIH Funded Research. By Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director, Federal Relations and Information Policy
Additionally, another NIH and Open Access FAQ has been created by Peter Suber, editor of Open Access News Blog and Newsletter.
Background information and comment form. Comments Deadline is November 16, 2004.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:20 AM
October 22, 2004
Copyright Book
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, by Lawrence Lessig
A print copy is also in Hodges Library. Read reviews at Amazon.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:15 PM
October 21, 2004
Ornithological Journal Archive
The SORA project is an open access electronic journal archive and is the product of a collaboration between the American Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of Field Ornithologists, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the University of New Mexico libraries and IT department. This archive provides access to an extensive Ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of Ornithology in North America over the last 120 years. The content of this site includes the following titles: The Auk (1884-1999), The Condor (1899-2000), The Journal of Field Ornithology (1930-1999), The Wilson Bulletin (1889-1999), Pacific Coast Avifauna (1900-1974) and Studies in Avian Biology (1978-1999). The North American Bird Bander will also be available in the near future.
*Discovered on the Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:07 PM
October 20, 2004
Nanotechnology Open Access Journal
AZoM.com Pty. Ltd. Sydney Australia and the Scottish-based Institute of Nanotechnology are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of the Online Journal of Nanotechnology. (press release)
The Online Journal of Nanotechnology is based on a free access publishing model, coupled with what is believed to be a unique development in the field of scientific publishing – the distribution of journal revenue between the authors, peer reviewers and site operators.
Read more about Open Access at the Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:46 AM
October 14, 2004
Open Access to 928.6 Million WorldCat Records
"Excited by the 'resounding success' of the Open WorldCat pilot program, the management of OCLC, the world's largest library vendor, has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items connected to 928.6 million library holdings for harvesting by Google and Yahoo! Search," reports Barbara Quint in the October 14 edition of Information Today.
Click here to read the entire Information Today story.
Posted by at 05:19 PM
October 13, 2004
Institutional Repositories presentation
Paul Conway, Director of Information Technology Services at Duke University Libraries, gave a presentation called Institutional Repositories: Is There Anything Left to Say? (pdf of presentation)
content discovered on Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:37 PM
October 12, 2004
SAGE Publishing allows author self-archiving
For immediate release:
Contacts:
SAGE Publications, Inc.
Carol Richman
Director of Licensing
carol.richman@sagepub.com
+1 805 499-9774
SAGE Publications, Ltd
Leo Walford
Associate Director, Journal Publishing
leo.walford@sagepub.co.uk
+44 (0) 207 324 8500
www.sagepublications.com
SAGE Publications goes ROMEO Green
Thousand Oaks, California, and London, United Kingdom (5 October 2004) -
SAGE Publications is pleased to announce its improved author
self-archiving copyright policy as part of its ongoing commitment to
provide the highest standards of service and support to authors. This new policy makes SAGE Publications a Green publisher according to the
SHERPA/ROMEO Publisher Copyright classification.
"As a leading publisher across many disciplines, we have always had a
mission to disseminate knowledge and to serve authors. While we have been
letting authors archive their own copy on request for some time, we have
now decided to make our policy more straightforward," said Anthony Ross,
Vice President, Content Management. "We will be encouraging authors who
archive their own copy to include a link to the published version of the
article as it appears on our new journal delivery platform: SAGE Journals
Online, http://online.sagepub.com."
This improved policy comes into effect immediately and applies to all
journals where SAGE is responsible for author copyright policy. It allows
authors to self-archive their own copy pre-print (i.e. submitted), and
their own copy post-print (i.e. accepted for publication).
Please visit: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php for more information on
the SHERPA/ROMEO listings.
Please see the individual journal homepages on www.sagepub.com for full
details.
About SAGE
SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books,
and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets.
Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of
scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. SAGE Publications, a
privately owned corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks,
California, and in London, United Kingdom.
Visit SAGE Publications at www.sagepublications.com.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:56 PM
October 04, 2004
10 years of Open Access in the Making
Ten Years After, an article in Information Today discusses Open Access over the years.
*found on Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:01 PM
Major Open Access Developments
Major developments during September are available in Octobers's issue of SPARC's Open Access Newsletter.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:56 PM