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    February 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

  

Peter Suber has just released the February 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-10.htm

  
Posted: 2010-02-02 More
 

    Assessing the future landscape of scholarly communication

  

Research report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines Diane Harley, Sophia Krzys Acord, Sarah Earl-Novell, Shannon Lawrence, C. Judson King http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc

Update February 1, 2009:  see Jennifer Howard's article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/When-Scholars-Weigh/63826/

Excerpt:  Although more and more scholars are interested in trying out new technologies as a way to share or publish their research, the traditional cultures of their disciplines and the high regard accorded to peer review still tend to have the strongest influence on them...

  
Posted: 2010-01-30 More
 

    The (non) Disruption of Scientific Publishing

  
An interesting blog post by Michael Clarke in which he analyses the functions of journals and why they are being changed minimally by the digital world.  
Posted: 2010-01-08 More
 

    Peter Suber, Open Access 2009

  
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-10.htm#2009  
Posted: 2010-01-03 More
 

    SRC Volume 1, Issue 1: First Articles Published

  

Editorial Article

Scholarly and Research Communication: A Journal and Some Founding Ideas by Rowland Lorimer

Articles

The OMMM Project: Toward a Collaborative Editorial Workflow by John W Maxwell 

An Open Access Approach to Scientific Information Management at the Agricultural Research Corporation by Patrícia Rocha Bello Bertin, Fernando César Lima Leite, Isaque Vacari, Victor Paulo Marques Simão, & Marcos Cezar Visoli

Ibero-American Systems for the Dissemination of Scholarly Journals: A Contribution to Public Knowledge Worldwide by Ana María Cetto, José Octavio Alonso-Gamboa, & Saray Córdoba González

Technical Report

Who Knows What, When? Current and Desired Capacities for Online Journal Statistics Gathering and Dissemination by James MacGregor & Andrea Kosavic

Commentary

Using Open Journal Systems to Move from Paper Production to Online Open Access by Laura C. Botsford & Kevin D. Haggerty

 

  
Posted: 2009-12-22 More
 

    December 2009 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

  
December 2009 Dramatic Growth of Open Access  
Posted: 2009-12-11 More
 

    Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practic

  

WASHINGTON, DC – “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 a timely new guide, “Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice,” by Raym Crow.

  
Posted: 2009-10-13 More
 

    Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2009

  
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access is a quarterly series on open access extent and growth by SRC Associate Editor Heather Morrison.  The September 30, 2009 issue features key quotables.  
Posted: 2009-09-30 More
 

    PLoS Article Level Metrics

  
PLoS has added a substantial suite of article-level metrics, ranging from article usage stastistics to citations to social bookmarking and more.   
Posted: 2009-09-28 More
 

    Videos from Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association Conference

  
Videos from the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) Conference are now available on River Valley TV  
Posted: 2009-09-27 More
 

    Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity

  
Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and the U. of California at Berkley have announced a Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity.  The basic idea is that signatories commit to developing models for support for OA journals that are equitable to current library supports for scholarly journals through subscriptions.  Other universities are encouraged to join.  
Posted: 2009-09-15 More
 

    Free webcast of the first Open Access Scholarly Publishing Conference which begins September 16! Announcement from OASPA follows:

  
Dear All, I am pleased to announce that the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing will be broadcast live online at: http://www.river-valley.tv/ in order to broaden the reach of the conference beyond those participants who will be able to physically join us next week.  
Posted: 2009-09-13 More
 

    SRC Launched

  
On July 10, 2009, and as part of the proceedings of the PKP2 Conference, July 8 to 10, Founding Editor, Rowland Lorimer, officially launched Scholarly and Research Communication (src-online.ca). The journal is now open for business and is receiving articles. Volume 1 Number 1, will be selected proceedings from that conference. Submissions are already being received for Volume 1 Number 2.  
Posted: 2009-07-20 More
 

    International Editorial Board for SRC

  
SRC welcomes an international Editorial Board.  
Posted: 2009-07-07 More
 

    PKP Conference

  
The 2nd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference is being held July 8th through 10th, 2009 at Simon Fraser University.  
Posted: 2009-07-07 More
 
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