The latest edition of blogspeak is now online - June 15, 2009
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Stuart Shieber (Are the Harvard open-access policies unfair to publishers?); Philip Davis (Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars); Casey Johnston (Tag networks on social sites may predict next Internet fad); and David Crotty (Bing and Wave: New Technologies… Read More
OA to scientific and scholarly information can save the Netherlands EUR 133 million annually, says study - June 12, 2009
If every scientific and scholarly article were publicly available, it would save the Netherlands EUR 133 million a year, according to a SURFfoundation study. The figure is given by Australian economist Prof. John Houghton in a study that SURFfoundation presented to the Dutch Ministry of Education,… Read More
Strategic Content Alliance and Collections Trust publish report on Orphaned Works - June 12, 2009
The Strategic Content Alliance and the Collections Trust have published a report according to which access to over 50 million items held in trust by publicly funded agencies such as libraries, museums, archives and universities are being prevented from being available online due to current copyright… Read More
Scopus includes ERIH journals to expand arts & humanities coverage - June 12, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus, its abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, has almost doubled its current arts & humanities (A&H) titles to 3,500. Scopus has added various global journals using the European Science Foundation's European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH). This… Read More
US student organisations call for increased open access to research - June 12, 2009
A coalition of national and regional college student associations has issued a statement titled 'Student Statement on the Right to Research.' The statement calls on universities, research funders and researchers to take action in support of open access (OA) to research. Coalition partners include the American Medical Student Association, the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health signs preservation deal with Portico - June 12, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US. Under the deal, Portico will preserve more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Adis International, and Facts… Read More
