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Clarifications about CC BY in the UK Open Access Policy - Creative Commons

Clarifications about CC BY in the UK Open Access Policy - Creative Commons | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. In the UK, the House of Commons has asked for feedback on their Open Access Policy.
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'Open Access' by Peter Suber, is now Open Access.

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Facilitating access to free online resources: challenges and opportunities for the library community: A white paper from Taylor &Francis

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Open Access - Keeping It Real

Open Access - Keeping It Real | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"As several speakers at SSP’s recent annual conference commented, Open Access is now a given. In the first six months of this year alone, we have seen a memorandum on OA from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a request for information from the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), the introduction of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) mandate, a position statement from Science Europe, and an Action Plan towards Open Access to Publications from the Global Research Council (GRC). Like rock and roll, OA is here to stay but, as with rock and roll, it doesn’t always live up to its own hype"

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Open access journal Horticulture Research to launch in 2014 | Nature Publishing Group

"Nature Publishing Group and Nanjing Agricultural University today announce the 2014 launch of Horticulture Research. The open access journal will launch on nature.com in January 2014, and will begin accepting submissions later in 2013. The new partnership was announced at the launch of the Macmillan Science & Education office in Shanghai this week, at an event at the Shanghai Science Hall.

Horticulture Research will publish original research articles and reviews and mini-reviews on novel discoveries focusing on all major horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, ornamental trees and flowers, herbs, and tea trees, both in preharvest and postharvest stages. The journal will primarily focus on basic and fundamental research with broad international and disciplinary interests. Its scope will cover genetics, breeding, “-omics” and evolution, origination and domestication horticultural crops, biotechnology, biochemistry, physiology, cellular and molecular biology, and environmental biology including interactions with other organisms."

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G8 science ministers endorse open access

G8 science ministers endorse open access | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research.In a joint statement proposing “new areas” of scientific collaboration for the countries, the ministers say they “recognise the potential benefits of immediate global access to and unrestricted use of published peer-reviewed, publicly funded research results. We share the intention, therefore, to continue our cooperative efforts and will consider how best to address the global promotion of increasing public access to the results of publicly funded published research including to peer-reviewed published research and research data," the statement says."

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Have a great story about using Open Access?

Have a great story about using Open Access? | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"We are proud to join this year’s ASAP!  The Accelerating Science Award Program recognizes individuals who have used, applied, or remixed scientific research — published through Open Access — to make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology or society as a whole.

Do you know someone who has used Open Access to innovate or impact society? Someone making a difference in any field? Are you?  Nominate a fellow researcher, student or yourself before June 15th."

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Peter Suber - Google+ - Once more: There's seldom a trade-off between prestige and open acces

Peter Suber - Google+ - Once more: There's seldom a trade-off between prestige and open acces | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Times Higher Education just published an accurate story with a misleading headline: "Scholars favour prestige over access."
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/journals-ends-scholars-favour-prestige-over-access/2004383.article

Why is the story accurate? See the survey the story summarizes:  "UK Survey of Academics 2012," from Ithaka S+R, JISC, and RLUK, May 14, 2013. In particular see Figure 40 at p. 71. Here's how the authors of the survey interpret the results: "Three factors —all closely related to the prominence and reach of the publication— were rated as very important by more than 4 in 5 respondents: that the current issues of the journal are circulated widely, are well read by academics in their field, and have a high impact factor....And other factors —the journal’s accessibility in developing nations...and the journal making its articles freely available online so there is no cost to purchase or read them— were rated as important by less than a third of respondents overall."

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Green open access can work for the humanities

Green open access can work for the humanities | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Transition is both desirable and inevitable, Gabriel Egan argues. 

We continue to witness a lot of back and forth between publishers and open-access advocates about the merits of Research Councils UK’s open-access policy - but where does it leave journal editors?

Some have echoed the publishers’ fears that open access will ruin their business models or undermine journal quality by scaring off top international authors. But not all editors share this view."

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GoldOA News | Gold Open Access Infrastructure

Does a model for machine-readable licences continue to have a role in an Open Access future?

 

Getting on for a decade ago, Digital Library Federation’s Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) identified a need for machine-interpretable expressions of the licences issued by publishers for the use of electronic resources in libraries. The sheer number and variety of licences for e-resources which were in use made it impossible for anyone to know (at the point of use) the terms under which a particular resource was available, and whether it could therefore be used in a given context. This was very different from the historic situation with physical resources where the terms of use were essentially uniform, governed by law rather than by licence, and generally understood and respected by librarians and library patrons alike.

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re3data.org | Registry of Research Data Repositories

"An increasing number of universities and research organisations are starting to build research data repositories to allow permanent access in a trustworthy environment to data sets resulting from research at their institutions. Due to varying disciplinary requirements, the landscape of research data repositories is very heterogeneous. This makes it difficult for researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions to select an appropriate repository for storage of research data or to search for data."

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Open access ‘waiver’ schemes encouraged by government

Open access ‘waiver’ schemes encouraged by government | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it
The government would like to see more publishers take up schemes that waive open access publishing fees for researchers from universities that subscribe to its journals, a senior civil servant has said.
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Copyright Clearance Center Joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

Copyright Clearance Center Joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. , a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and Open Access solutions, has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association"

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How do you know a journal is legitimate? | Scholarly Communication Program

How do you know a journal is legitimate? | Scholarly Communication Program | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"As a researcher or scholar under pressure to publish, you may accept solicitations to submit articles for publication even if you are not familiar with the journal or publisher. Some of these offers are legitimate but others turn out to be scams. It is wise to take a few basic steps to learn more about a new or unfamiliar scholarly journal."

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Gold Open Access for Learned Societies? »

Gold Open Access for Learned Societies? » | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"These resources have been developed to help learned societies review options and take decisions about Gold Open Access publishing. You can navigate them by clicking on the relevant resource in the simple flowchart below. You can also find out more about the resources and the process:"

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Open access policy : The Lancet

"We welcome The Lancet's stance on open access (April 6, p 1166).1 We note that you wish to review how you can make all publicly funded research as accessible and usable as possible. However, we also note that even with the announced changes, The Lancet will still have less free access than other key general medical journals. For example, there is free access to all research articles in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) after 6 months from 1998, in the New England Journal of Medicine after 6 months from 1990, and in The British Medical Journal immediately from 1840 onwards."
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David Ball: Open Access | UKeiG

David Ball: Open Access | UKeiG | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Readers will I am sure be aware of the different manifestations of Open Access (OA) – Green and Gold – the future of which is now the subject of debate.

To be clear: Gold OA is delivered through journals, which may be completely OA or hybrid, where some articles are OA and others are available only to subscribers; Green OA is delivered through self-archiving – authors’ deposit of manuscripts in repositories, which may be institutional or disciplinary."

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Making the case for open access books

Making the case for open access books | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Simon Chaplin: The humanities matter. Books matter. Through open access, they can reach a wider audience than ever before. A policy requiring open access to academic books? Surely that's asking for trouble? After all, it was only a few months ago that many humanities researchers were up in arms when Research Councils UK (RCUK) implemented its new policy on open access to journal articles. Although such measures are broadly accepted in the sciences, the RCUK policy was criticised by the Royal Historical Society, among others, for being a blunt instrument, insensitive to the differences that mark out historians from histologists.

Given the anguish that RCUK's policy caused, the announcement last week that the Wellcome Trust – a major funder of biomedical research – has now extended its open access policy to include books and book chapters might seem a little, well, insensitive. After all, the Trust's long-standing policy on open access to journal articles was seen by many as having beaten the path for RCUK's approach. So why books, and why now?"

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Open Access Empowers 16-year-old Jack Andraka to Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic (Right to Research Coalition)

Open Access Empowers 16-year-old Jack Andraka to Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic (Right to Research Coalition) | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Open Access Empowers 16-year-old to Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic: An Interview with Jack Andraka and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health

Jack Andraka is a perfect example of the power of Open Access, the free availability of all academic research articles online with full reuse rights. Only 16 years old, Jack discovered a breakthrough pancreatic cancer diagnostic using carbon nanotubes. Jack’s test costs $0.03 and takes 5 minutes to run with nearly 100% accuracy so far, making it 26,667 times cheaper, 168 times faster, and 400 times more sensitive than the current test commonly used for pancreatic cancer. Jack went on to win the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. His story would not be possible without Open Access"

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Implementing Open Access in the United Kingdom - Information Services and Use - Volume 33, Number 1 / 2013 - IOS Press

Implementing Open Access in the United Kingdom - Information Services and Use - Volume 33, Number 1 / 2013 - IOS Press | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"Since July 2012, the UK has been undergoing an organized transition to open access. As of 01 April 2013, revised open access policies are coming into effect. Open access implementation requires new infrastructures for funding publishing. Universities as institutions increasingly will be central to managing article-processing charges, monitoring compliance and organizing deposit. This article reviews the implementation praxis between July 2012 and April 2013, including ongoing controversy and review, which has mainly focussed on embargo length."

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Open Access at Oxford » Oxford researchers’ perspectives on Open Access

"During the period preceding 1st April the researchers from IT Services attached to the OAO project explored Oxford researchers’ existing awareness of, and attitudes towards, Open Access. We spoke with nine individuals in research roles – PIs of research teams and individual researchers – and a small number of doctoral students. However, in this blog post I also draw from our conversations with librarians and research facilitators where these provided additional insights into academics’ perspectives"

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Gold OA infrastructure

"The wide range of activities reported on the gold oa blog illustrate the priority now given to APC-funded gold OA by Government and other Establishment agencies in the UK, and the second-class status being given to repositories and other green OA developments by those same agencies. After many protests following the Finch Report, the role of repositories has been given greater recognition in the policies of RCUK and HEFCE, but this welcome recognition cannot disguise the fact that within the UK Establishment repositories are now not to be encouraged."

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Research Funders Propose Steps to Promote Open Access - ScienceInsider

Research Funders Propose Steps to Promote Open Access - ScienceInsider | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"A group of research funding organizations from around the world today put its weight behind open access (OA) to the scientific literature but stopped short of making concrete policy recommendations for its members. The landscape for research and publishing is too varied to come up with general solutions, leaders of the Global Research Council (GRC) said today at the end of the group's second annual meeting in Berlin."

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How to select an Open Access journal?

How to select an Open Access journal? | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it

"I was recently asked by a colleague about Open Access (OA) journals. Her interests are in the areas of cancer and medical genetics. She’d had unfortunate recent experiences with anonymous peer review, and wished to find a suitable OA journal that uses open peer review – with: a)  identification of the reviewers, and b) publication of their reviews."

 

Varsha Khodiyar's comment, May 29, 6:38 AM
Have a look at F1000Research. It's a life science OA journal which carries out open peer review post-publication http://f1000research.com/
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UK wide survey of academics spotlights researchers’ reliance on open access | RLUK

"A major survey of UK Academics released today examines the attitudes of researchers and practitioners working within higher education. It sheds light on their behaviours, including their reliance on digital technologies, the Internet and open access."

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UNESCO adopts open access policy

UNESCO adopts open access policy | Open Access News from the RSP team | Scoop.it
UNESCO will make its future and past publications free for all to access
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