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New archive of open access public-policy research at IUPUI

Shawn P. Calhoun wrote 1 day ago: PolicyArchive, an online archive of public-policy research was recently launched by Indiana Universi … more »

Tags: Gleeson Library, Reference & Research Services, Scholarly Publishing

APA Reverses PubMed Deposit Charge

Philip Davis wrote 2 days ago: Image via Wikipedia The American Psychological Association is making an abrupt turn, quickly halting … more »

Tags: controversial topics, Authors, National Institutes of Health, American Psychological Association, PubMed Central

"Controversial open access plan stalled"

Paul Lomio wrote 2 days ago: From TheScientist.com, “Forced charges for open access?” . . . the APA [American Psychol … more »

Tags: Medical Research, American Psychological Association, Peter Suber, PubMed Central

Home sweet home1 comment

paksenn wrote 4 days ago: Well I have been back in Calgary for just over a week now and I am stunned/shocked by the tremendous … more »

Tags: Academia, faculty, Libraries, Building & Construction

Readings on Open Access as a Public Good1 comment

George Wilson wrote 1 week ago: Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog for today again bringing to the fore and recommending two interesting … more »

Tags: legal publishing, Professional reading, International Journal of Legal Information, John Willinsky, MIT Press, public good, Richard A. Danner

Oxford's Open Book on Open Access1 comment

Philip Davis wrote 1 week ago: In the July 2008 issue of Learned Publishing, Claire Bird provides a summary of Oxford University Pr … more »

Tags: Research, experimentation, Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford University Press, Journal publishing

Access to EU Documents - Some Good News...

Erika Wayne wrote 1 week ago: On July 1st, the Court of Justice for the European Communities issued a judgment on access to legal … more »

Tags: 1049/2001, Access to documents, c-39/05 P, c-52/05 P, EU documents, European Court of Justice, StateWatch, Turco

"A Revolution in Online Legal Content"

Paul Lomio wrote 1 week ago: A Revolution in Online Legal Content By Ari Kaplan Legal Tech Newsletter July 7, 2008 As summer asso … more »

Tags: Sharing work product, Law Firms, Briefs, Legal Documents, Pleadings, Court Opinions, ari kaplan, Legal Tech Newsletter, jd supra

Bulk Publishing Keeps PLoS Afloat7 comments

Philip Davis wrote 1 week ago: Image via Wikipedia In an expository news piece released in last week’s issue of the journal … more »

Tags: experimentation, Peer Review, Business models, Public Library Of Science, PLoS ONE, Publishing Models

Open Access - the bedrock of academia and the scientific community

Mario Pineda-Krch wrote 1 week ago: There is a letter in yesterday’s The Times by John Sulston and Joseph Stiglitz (both Nobel lau … more »

Tags: Open Science, Nature

What is up with the self archiving policies of APA Journals?

Wobbler wrote 1 day ago: Problem statement: Journal publishers (APA) intentionally and dishonestly associating Green OA with … more »

Tags: scholarly communication

Webcast of funder policy session at ELPUB 2008

tillje wrote 4 days ago: The ELPUB 2008 Conference Schedule for June 27 included an afternoon Plenary Session entitled: … more »

Radiohead "House of Cards" and Google cooperation

Danica wrote 5 days ago: Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album … more »

Tags: Amusements, Art, Cyberculture, Design, Free Software, Internet, media, Music, Science

Alaska’s Digital Archives

colombianflowers wrote 1 week ago: At ALA I sat in on a great presentation titled Digitizing Indian Country. The first presentation wa … more »

Tags: Americas, Archives, Databases, Libraries, Manuscripts, Photographs, USA

Cittadinanza digitale dal punto di vista di Scuola3D5 comments

bonaria wrote 1 week ago: Al seminario di Scuola3D sulla cittadinanza digitale (le foto su Flickr). Gino Roncaglia ci ha parla … more »

Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Library, Open-Source, Web Tools, Information Architecture, Library 2.0, cult, Tagging / Folksonomy

The Stanford School of Education adopted an OA mandate

scunc wrote 1 week ago: The School of Education faculty at Stanford University unanimously approved the new “open acc … more »

Article by Gunther Eysenbach about WebCite(R)

tillje wrote 1 week ago: One of the presentations at the ELPUB 2008 Conference was Paper 378 by Gunther Eysenbach, entitled: … more »

Spiral top downloads for June 2008

Jenny wrote 1 week ago: See this link to the Spiral top twenty for the top twenty downloads during June from Imperial’ … more »

Tags: E-Resources, maths, Physics, Repositories, spiral

Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals : Please consider for your publications

libraryfit wrote 1 week ago: QUT researchers are invited to submit manuscripts to any of the PLoS journals, listed below, in 20 … more »

Tags: researchers