What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access?
What can universities do to promote open access? In this presentation, Open access leader Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), answers this question thorough and engaging lecture he recently at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet &… Read More
Scientific Publishing from a Funding Body Perspective: Views from the European Commission
Deirdre Furlong, European Commission, Research Directorate-General Science, Economy and Society Directorate Governance and Ethics Unit, presented this presentation at the APE 2008 Quality and Publishing conference in Berlin. In his presentation, he discusses scientific publishing in the digital age and the European Commission initiatives. Read More
The Open Access Repository – a Researcher’s Tool
This presentation by Ray L. Frost, Leader Inorganic Materials Research Programme, looks at Open Access Repository as a tool for student learning. Also, he discusses how researchers can benefit from open access. Read More
Scientific Publishing: New Masters, New Rules
This presentation was delivered by Rene Olivieri, Chief Operating Officer, Wiley-Blackwell, at an international conference initiated by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and the German Association of Publishers and Booksellers (Börsenverein). In his presentation Olivieri describes societies, funding bodies, governments and researchers as the new masters,… Read More
Open Access: Advantage Authors
This presentation was delivered by Sukhdev Singh, Naina Pandita and Shefali S Dash of the Bibliographic Informatics Division of the National Informatics Center in India during the IAMI 2007 Conference. It discusses how OA holds promise to remove both price and permission barriers to the scientific communication. Read More
Open Access Collections: The Future of the Accessibility Framework and Research Assessment
In this presentation, Leanne Harvey talks about the future of the accessibility framework and research assessment. According to him, the accessibility framework is about ensuring that publicly funded research is accessible to the public, by government and by business. Read More
Creative Commons Business Models
This documentary film by Frances Pinter and David Percy draws attention to business models in the publishing world that use Creative Commons licenses. Frances has been heading a CC-based publishing project in Africa, and Percy is an award-winning film-maker. The film is 30 minutes long, with three 10 minute interviews. Read More
DRIVER: Building a sustainable infrastructure of (European) Scientific Repositories
This presentation was presented by Nobert Lossau, Scientific Coordinator Gottingen State and University Library, during the recently concluded LIBER Annual conference in Istanbul. Driver is a joint initiative of European stakeholders, co-financed by the European Commission, setting up a technical infrastructure for digital repositories and facilitating the building of an… Read More
Does metadata matter?
This is a 30 minute slidecast by Andy Powell (using 130 slides) covers a broad sweep of history from library cataloguing, thru the Dublin Core, Web search engines, IEEE LOM, the Semantic Web, arXiv, institutional repositories and more. The focus is ultimately on why Eduserv should be interested in 'metadata'… Read More
Academic Libraries as Digital Gateways
Digital collections of full-text e-books are proliferating on the Web and provide a wealth of open content for students. To examine whether academic libraries are providing a digital gateway to these resources, ten e-book titles from open digital collections were searched in the online catalogs and Web pages of ten… Read More
