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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 11, 2009 early year-end edition
"While dramatic growth continues in all aspects of open access, the story of the year and especially of the last quarter is a dramatic leap in open access mandate policies, particularly institutional and departmental policies."
PLoS Biology: Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing
'Scholars write articles to be read—the more access to their articles the better—so one might think that the open-access approach to publishing, in which articles are freely available online to all without interposition of an access fee, would be an attractive competitor to traditional subscription-based journal publishing.'
Compact for OA Publishing Equity - Overview
'The compact for open-access publishing equity supports equity of the business models by committing each university to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds."'
News: Breakthrough on Open Access - Inside Higher Ed
'On Monday, five leading universities announced a new "Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity" in which they have pledged to develop systems to pay open access journals for the articles they publish by the institutions' scholars. In doing so, the institutions are attempting to put to rest the idea that only older publication models (paid and/or print) can support rigorous peer review and quality assurance.
By embracing a new model, the institutions say, they hope to shift away from a system in which rising journal prices have frustrated librarians, and the lack of free access has frustrated those whose institutions can't afford many journals.'
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access Dataverse - IQSS Dataverse Network
tracks key data for open access resources (open access journals, archives, items in archives) on a quarterly basis. This open data version (CC-BY-NC-SA) is complemented by quarterly commentary and supplemented with specialized data.
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 30, 2009
'more than 4,000 fully open access, peer reviewed journals in DOAJ, growing by 2 titles per day; close to 1,500 open access repositories listed in OpenDOAR, adding a new repository every business day; over 30 million free publications through Scientific Commons, growing by more than 20 thousands items per day; more than 20% of the world's medical literature is freely available 2 years after publication, and close to 10% is freely available immediately on publication; 1 more journal decides to submit all or most content to PMC every business day, and growth of open access journals in PMC is one new journal every other business day.'
Fallout from the Hoax Article: Editor Resigns, OA Publishers Respond - 6/15/2009 - Library Journal
"News last week that a hoax article was accepted by a purportedly peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by Bentham Science has led to a resignation by the journal’s editor-in-chief as well as a call for ethical practices by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which does not count Bentham as a member."
Cornell’s Open Access Author Fund « The Scholarly Kitchen
"Considering that the Cornell University Library spends nearly $18 million dollars on collections, $50K seems like pocket change. From an management standpoint, it may take much more that $50K in staff and faculty time to administrate and process author charges one article at a time.
This would lead a skeptic to question why such funds are necessary if there is little demand, especially at a time when libraries are asked to make deep cuts in both their staff and existing journal subscriptions. Of course, low demand may not be the future for author publishing funds, and this is where governance becomes a significant issue. "
Dark Secrets: Open Access and Author Processing Charges « The Scholarly Kitchen
"But public accountability also requires that institutions be transparent in how they budget and allocate their taxpayer funds. Library Open Access policies cannot exist with secret budgets, ambiguous guidelines, and a practice of stonewalling requests for information."
The Tip of an Iceberg? « The Scholarly Kitchen
"While the paper they accepted was laughably nonsensical and there was no evidence of peer-review, the most salient communication we received from them around the paper they accepted was the invoice.
And this invoice begins the real story here.
It’s important that everyone in academic publishing realize there is a feeder issue at play — the swelling pools of author-pays funding, how they’re being managed, and policies around their use."
Cornell Library Lifts Restrictions on Public Domain Works - 5/14/2009 - Library Journal
"Coinciding with the donation of 70,000 public domain works to the Internet Archive, the Cornell University Library has announced that it will no longer requires users to seek permission to reuse public domain materials for any purpose. "
Copyright Battle Looms for Docs Who 'Grew Up Google' - ABC News
"On one side of the gap are those who say such research should be free to all, that it's too valuable to keep firmly planted in the walled gardens of the prestigious journals that publish it. And for research that's taxpayer-funded, the public that paid for it, at least, deserves access."
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
"a collection of about 21,000 public domain and open access documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
The Library and the Bazaar: Open Content and Libraries - E-LIS
"This essay will consider new copyright models in libraries, and how libraries can and should modify their own systems to promote and provide access to open content. It focuses on the reasoning behind supporting new models and methods of distribution, esp
The Library as Open Access Publisher, and Digital Publishing 2.0 « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY
'What remains to be done, and here I mean by all of us, is to revisit and reconceive what we think of the future of publishing in the social sciences in light of online, open access conditions, especially with reference to the question of peer review, and
Harvard Opts In to 'Opt Out' Plan
"faculty approved a plan on Tuesday that will post finished academic papers online free, unless scholars specifically decide to opt out of the open-access program. While other institutions have similar repositories for their faculty's work, Harvard's is u
Abandoning Print, Not Peer Review
"A recent announcement out of Indiana hasn't received the same attention, but may represent a larger challenge in the end to the traditional model of scholarly publishing, which has evolved to a system with expensive print and online publications and limi
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Collection of digitized texts, free to download, read, print; subsections--American libraries, Canadian libraries, Project Gutenberg, children's libraries
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