US’ National Archives introduces Online Public Access prototype - December 28, 2010
The US' National Archives and Records Administration has announced that a new Online Public Access prototype is being made available to the public at http://www.archives.gov/research/search. The National Archives' flagship initiative in its Open Government plan is to develop online services to… Read More
Study of Open Access Publishing project to present findings of two-year EC funded study on OA publishing - December 20, 2010
The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project is set to present the results of its two-year European Commission funded examination of open access publishing at an open symposium on January 13, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. Over the two-year study duration, the SOAP project performed… Read More
RSC Publishing to move Highlights supplements to Chemistry World - December 17, 2010
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that three of its Highlights supplements will be moving to Chemistry World from January 2011. These include Highlights in Chemical Science ; Read More
JISC’s executive secretary calls for more strategic debate on OA - December 15, 2010
JISC's executive secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, has called for more strategic debate on Open Access (OA) among funders, researchers and institutional managers. Speaking at the expert conference on Open Access and Open Data in Cologne, Germany, Dr. Read said that more needs to be done to… Read More
Nature Publishing Group announces open access options for 15 more journals - December 15, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced open access options for fifteen more journals. Forty-one journals published by NPG now offer authors an open access option or are wholly open access, including 80 percent of its 50 academic and society journals. In total, NPG… Read More
NISO to make Information Standards Quarterly OA in 2011 - December 13, 2010
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) publication will be moving to open access (OA) in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public.… Read More
Submission fees – a viable business model for OA publishing, says Knowledge Exchange report - December 6, 2010
A new study commissioned by the Knowledge Exchange argues that there can be benefits to publishers if they switch to a model based on submission fees. Knowledge Exchange is a pan-European partnership between DFG (Germany), JISC (UK), DEFF (Denmark) and SURFfoundation (The Netherlands) who share a… Read More
EC launches ‘OpenAIRE’ to offer open access to EU-funded scientific research papers - December 3, 2010
The European Commission (EC) has launched OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Through this, it is expected that EU researchers, businesses and citizens will have free and open access to EU-funded research papers. OpenAIRE is projected… Read More
Gale releases Gale NewsVault, offers access to 400 years of newspapers and periodicals - December 2, 2010
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the release of Gale NewsVault, a specially designed online platform that enables cross-searching of Gale's enormous range of historical newspaper and periodical collections from a single interface. Providing access to more than 2,000 titles and 10… Read More
UK’s Open University opts for Linked Open Data Movement - November 19, 2010
The UK's Open University (OU) is reportedly the first university in the nation to open up access to online data from across the institution as part of the Linked Open Data Movement. The JISC-funded OU's LUCERO (Linking University Content for Education and… Read More
