From the Guardian:
A few months ago, the mayor of San Francisco met some of the city’s leading technology entrepreneurs. On the surface, it looked like little more than a photo opportunity – a chance for the smooth and ambitious mayor, Gavin Newsom, to smile and glad-hand with Twitter and a string of other hot internet [...]
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San Francisco, the city that’s open for data – How DataSF.org, which publishes dozens of official data sets, is starting to transform life and politics in San Francisco
Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Public access to research is “inevitable,” but it will be a slog to get to it. That was the takeaway message of a panel on the role libraries can play in supporting current and future public-access moves. The panel was part of the program at the membership meeting of the [...]
New SPARC Guide Reviews Income Models for Supporting Open Access Journals
From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition:
“Who pays for Open Access?” is a key question faced by publishers, authors, and libraries as awareness and interest in free, immediate, online access to scholarly research increases. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open-access publishers in [...]
Liberal arts colleges would benefit from extending openness required by NIH policy
From Library Journal:
. . . The open letter, spearheaded by library directors and signed by a subset of the 80 selective institutions that make up the Oberlin Group consortium, begins with an axiom of public access support: “Academic libraries simply cannot afford ready access to most of the research literature that their faculty and students [...]
Testing the waters with open-access funds
From SPARC:
In a move to encourage researchers to make their work open to the public, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary established funds that faculty and graduate students could use cover publication charges for open-access journals. Berkeley and Calgary are two of several funds established in recent years, including the [...]
5 Major Research Universities Endorse Open-Access Journals
From The Chronicle of Higher Education:
In an effort to support alternatives to traditional scholarly publishing, five major research universities announced their joint commitment to open-access journals on Monday.
The institutions—Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley—signed a compact agreeing to the “timely establishment” of mechanisms [...]
FRPAA re-introduced in the Senate
From Public Knowledge:
On June 25, Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman re-introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA, S.1373) in the Senate.
This is an important development. FRPAA would essentially extend the NIH open-access policy across the federal government. Most federally-funded researchers would be required to deposit their peer reviewed manuscripts in a suitable open [...]
Medical Students, Other Student Groups Endorse Open Access
From Library Journal:
The debate over Open Access (OA) has typically been the domain of faculty and administrations, taking place near the pinnacle of academia’s ivory tower. But last week the American Medical Student Association and other student groups, brokered by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), weighed in from below with their own [...]
Significant New Deposit Mandates Announced
From Sparc Europe:
New mandates requiring researchers to make their papers available in open access have been announced in Belgium, Norway, and the UK
A trend in 2009 has been the accelerated progress in institutions, funders, and governments adopting mandates that require researchers to make copies of their papers available in open access (’green’ open access).
Details of [...]
Publicly funded research for a price
From Marketplace:
Publicly funded research doesn’t seem so public when the public has to pay to read the results in a journal. A proposed law would help publishing companies preserve their business models, but it would limit public access to the research. Janet Babin reports.