South Africa: the first African open access institutional mandate at the University of Pretoria and a new repository at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by EIFL - What's new on this site
Implementation of the Belgorod Declaration on open access to scientific knowledge and cultural heritage endorsed by 10 rectors in Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by EIFL - What's new on this site
Poland considering an open access mandate
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by EIFL - What's new on this site
A new Lithuanian law on science requires online access for publicly-funded research
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by EIFL - What's new on this site
ARL SPEC Kit on Authors’ Addenda
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Heather Morrison
The Association of Research Libraries has just published a SPEC Kit on Author's Addenda. The table of contents and Executive Summary are available online. Highlight: author's addenda are in use by authors of at least 35 ARL institutions, 50% of the institutions responding to the survey.
Hat tip to the Open Access Tracking Project.
Hat tip to the Open Access Tracking Project.
July 2009 SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Heather Morrison
Peter Suber just released the July 2009 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Peter's feature article this month is on Open Access for Digitization Projects, a thorough piece on the philosophical elements underlying OA and digitization, such as balancing public access / public domain and private rights. For example, when public funds are used to digitize material under private copyright, the public funder has every right to expect concessions to the public rights that come with public funding; some projects may need to allow private parties embargoed rights to move forward, however the embargo period should be much less than what is allowed under copyright, and when projects are competing for funds, the public funder has every right to prioritize projects that provide the best public benefits, such as little or no embargo. Highly recommended reading for anyone involved in digitization.
Australia’s 6th Green OA Mandate: Victoria University
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Eberhard R. Hilf
ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies)
Institution's OA Self-Archiving Mandate:
Authors of material which represents publicly available research and scholarly output of the University must ensure its submission to the University's Institutional repository, subject to the exclusions noted.
The following materials are to be included:
Register your Institutional Policy in ROARMAP
Register your Institutional Repository in ROAR
Victoria University (AUSTRALIA institutional-mandate)
Institution's OA Repository
Institution's OA Self-Archiving Mandate:
Authors of material which represents publicly available research and scholarly output of the University must ensure its submission to the University's Institutional repository, subject to the exclusions noted.
The following materials are to be included:
? Refereed scholarly and research articles and contributions by current VU staff and students at the post-print stage (subject to any necessary agreement with the publisher)
? Refereed scholarly and research literature by current VU staff and students at the pre-print stage (with corrigenda added subsequently if necessary at the discretion of the author)
? PhD and Masters by Research degree theses by VU students
? University related research material such as books, working papers, discussion papers, government submissions, reports and inaugural professorial lectures
Cairo to host next world science journalists’ conference
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by SciDev.Net | science-communication
An African country is to host the World Conference of Science Journalists for the first time.
Open access may be behind developing country research boom
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by SciDev.Net | science-communication
The leaders of open access schemes have claimed partial credit for the dramatic rise in developing world research output.
Young people and OA
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Heather Morrison
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Expectations of the Screenager Generation, presented at RLG Annual Partnership Symposium (Boston, June 3, 2009). (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) Report on a study of 12-18 year olds and their expectations of libraries and information resources.
- ... Their Information Perspectives
- Information is information
- Media formats don’t matter ...
- What Attracts Them to Resources
- Convenience, convenience, convenience
- Available 24/7
- Working from home
- At night or on weekends
- Immediate answers
- Lack of cost
- Efficient ...
- What Attracts Them to Resources
- Independence
- Prefer to do own search
- Use the Internet
- No librarian necessary ...
- What We Learned
- Libraries are trusted sources of information
- Search engines are trusted about the same
- Screenagers
- Lack patience to wade through content silos and indexing and abstracting databases
- Like convenience and speed
- Do not view paid information as more accurate than free information ...