DigitalKoans » Open Access http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans What Is the Sound of One E-Print Downloading? Fri, 10 May 2013 15:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 "Remarkable Growth of Open Access in the Biomedical Field: Analysis of PubMed Articles from 2006 to 2010" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/08/remarkable-growth-of-open-access-in-the-biomedical-field-analysis-of-pubmed-articles-from-2006-to-2010/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/08/remarkable-growth-of-open-access-in-the-biomedical-field-analysis-of-pubmed-articles-from-2006-to-2010/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 11:02:43 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22961 Keiko Kurata, Tomoko Morioka, Keiko Yokoi, and Mamiko Matsubayash have published the "Remarkable Growth of Open Access in the Biomedical Field: Analysis of PubMed Articles from 2006 to 2010" in PLOS One. Here's an excerpt: This study clarifies the trends observed in open access (OA) in the biomedical field between 2006 and 2010, and explores [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/08/remarkable-growth-of-open-access-in-the-biomedical-field-analysis-of-pubmed-articles-from-2006-to-2010/feed/ 0 "Types of Open Access Publishers in Scopus" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/07/types-of-open-access-publishers-in-scopus/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/07/types-of-open-access-publishers-in-scopus/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 11:02:08 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22938 David Solomon has published "Types of Open Access Publishers in Scopus" in Publications. Here's an excerpt: This study assessed characteristics of publishers who published 2010 open access (OA) journals indexed in Scopus. Publishers were categorized into six types; professional, society, university, scholar/researcher, government, and other organizations. Type of publisher was broken down by number of [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/07/types-of-open-access-publishers-in-scopus/feed/ 0 University of Michigan Press Launches Maize Books, a Nontraditional Press with an Open Access Option http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/07/university-of-michigan-press-launches-maize-books-a-nontraditional-press-with-an-open-access-option/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/07/university-of-michigan-press-launches-maize-books-a-nontraditional-press-with-an-open-access-option/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 11:00:18 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22934 The University of Michigan Press has launched Maize Books, which will offer an open access publishing option. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The University of Michigan Press, a unit of Michigan Publishing, is committed to producing and disseminating high-quality scholarship. As part of that commitment, we're proud to announce Maize Books, a new Michigan [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/07/university-of-michigan-press-launches-maize-books-a-nontraditional-press-with-an-open-access-option/feed/ 0 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Adopts Open Access Policy http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/03/columbia-university-mailman-school-of-public-health-adopts-open-access-policy/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/03/columbia-university-mailman-school-of-public-health-adopts-open-access-policy/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 11:03:32 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22870 The Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health has adopted an open access policy. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: In accordance with their open access resolution, Mailman School researchers commit to having their published scholarly articles included in Columbia's digital repository, Academic Commons, where content is freely available to the public, or in another [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/03/columbia-university-mailman-school-of-public-health-adopts-open-access-policy/feed/ 0 "Hot Times for Open Access" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/03/hot-times-for-open-access/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/03/hot-times-for-open-access/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 11:00:18 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22865 Walt Crawford has published "Hot Times for Open Access" in the latest issue of Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large. Here's an excerpt: These are hot times for open access. Maybe not a tipping point, certainly not where everything will be in a couple of years, but more action—and even more progress—than I'd seen in [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/05/03/hot-times-for-open-access/feed/ 0 "Science Europe Position Statement: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/30/science-europe-position-statement-principles-on-the-transition-to-open-access-to-research-publications/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/30/science-europe-position-statement-principles-on-the-transition-to-open-access-to-research-publications/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:30:53 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22778 Science Europe has released "Science Europe Position Statement: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications." Science Europe is an "association of 51 European national research organisations." Here's an excerpt: Therefore the Science Europe Member Organisations: will continue to support any valid approaches to achieve Open Access, including those commonly referred to as [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/30/science-europe-position-statement-principles-on-the-transition-to-open-access-to-research-publications/feed/ 0 "House of Commons Oral Evidence Taken before the Business, Innovation And Skills Committee Open Access" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/25/house-of-commons-oral-evidence-taken-before-the-business-innovation-and-skills-committee-open-access/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/25/house-of-commons-oral-evidence-taken-before-the-business-innovation-and-skills-committee-open-access/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:33:57 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22705 The UK Parliament has released an uncorrected transcript of "House of Commons Oral Evidence Taken before the Business, Innovation And Skills Committee Open Access." Here's an excerpt (below comments by Alicia Wise, Director of Universal Access, Reed Elsevier): With the Government's policy that we are all implementing, we will see an increase in the amount [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/25/house-of-commons-oral-evidence-taken-before-the-business-innovation-and-skills-committee-open-access/feed/ 0 "Expanded Public Access: A New Era with New Challenges" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/19/expanded-public-access-a-new-era-with-new-challenges/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/19/expanded-public-access-a-new-era-with-new-challenges/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:33:48 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22537 The Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries have released "Expanded Public Access: A New Era with New Challenges." Here's an excerpt: During a short six-month period, agencies will develop draft plans for how this long-term preservation and access will occur ["Increasing Access to the [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/19/expanded-public-access-a-new-era-with-new-challenges/feed/ 0 "Open Access—Are the Barriers to Change Receding?" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/16/open-accessare-the-barriers-to-change-receding/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/16/open-accessare-the-barriers-to-change-receding/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:30:38 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22457 Bo-Christer Björk has published "Open Access—Are the Barriers to Change Receding?" in Publications. Here's an excerpt: The move from subscription only publishing of scholarly articles to open access has been much slower than previously anticipated by many Open Access (OA) advocates. Despite the many advantages that OA offers, this particular branch of E-commerce imposes several [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/16/open-accessare-the-barriers-to-change-receding/feed/ 0 ACRL Makes Entire College & Research Libraries Archive Freely Available http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/15/acrl-makes-entire-college-research-libraries-archive-freely-available/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/15/acrl-makes-entire-college-research-libraries-archive-freely-available/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:33:21 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22422 ACRL has made the entire College & Research Libraries archive freely available. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: "Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession," said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. "Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL's ongoing [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/15/acrl-makes-entire-college-research-libraries-archive-freely-available/feed/ 0 "Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/11/keep-the-change-clusters-of-faculty-opinion-on-open-access/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/11/keep-the-change-clusters-of-faculty-opinion-on-open-access/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:31:45 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22358 ACRL has released "Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access" as part of the ACRL 2013 Proceedings. Here's an excerpt: In this Q study, factor analysis revealed three distinct factors that outlined clusters of faculty opinions about open access. The authors described these factors as "Evangelists," "Pragmatists," and"Traditionalists." Each of these factors [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/11/keep-the-change-clusters-of-faculty-opinion-on-open-access/feed/ 0 "Recent Developments in Open Access" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/10/recent-developments-in-open-access/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/10/recent-developments-in-open-access/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:30:37 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22311 Arthur Sale has self-archived "Recent Developments in Open Access" in UTAS ePrints. Here's an excerpt: Open Access to the world's research literature has been an obvious development since the emergence of the Internet. To everyone, it appears clear that the costs of disseminating research could drop dramatically. Yet, progress in achieving it is strangely slow. [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/04/10/recent-developments-in-open-access/feed/ 0 Sustainability of Open Access Services—Report Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/29/sustainability-of-open-access-servicesreport-phase-3-the-collective-provision-of-open-access-resources/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/29/sustainability-of-open-access-servicesreport-phase-3-the-collective-provision-of-open-access-resources/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:30:50 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22064 SPARC has released Sustainability of Open Access Services—Report Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources. Here's an excerpt: This report is the third in a series which examines issues relating to the economic sustainability of critical infrastructure services that support the operation and growth of open-access dissemination of scholarly and scientific research. This [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/29/sustainability-of-open-access-servicesreport-phase-3-the-collective-provision-of-open-access-resources/feed/ 0 "The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from Germany" http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/28/the-determinants-of-open-access-publishing-survey-evidence-from-germany/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/28/the-determinants-of-open-access-publishing-survey-evidence-from-germany/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:33:07 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22050 Thomas Eger, Marc Scheufen, and Daniel Meierrieks have self-archived "The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from Germany" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: We discuss the results of a survey conducted in fall 2012 and covering 2,151 researchers in Germany. We show that there are significant differences between the scientific disciplines with respect to [...]

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]]> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/28/the-determinants-of-open-access-publishing-survey-evidence-from-germany/feed/ 0 Open Monograph Press, Release 1.0 http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/28/open-monograph-press-release-1-0/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2013/03/28/open-monograph-press-release-1-0/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:30:34 +0000 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/?p=22042 The Public Knowledge Project has released the Open Monograph Press, Release 1.0. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: OMP is designed to assist university presses, learned societies, and scholar-publishers interested in publishing scholarly books in print-on-demand and multiple electronic formats, whether on an open access or purchase basis. OMP is intended to: Handle edited volumes, [...]

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