Archive for 'Open Access'
Accountability and Open Access
Hey, have you heard there’s a recession on? (Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.) It’s nearly impossible to avoid news from all sectors–including higher education–about the continued economic challenges facing the country. Stories about funding difficulties for both public and private institutions, rising tuition, and declining endowments fill news outlets daily. And of course academic libraries [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on March 1st, 2010 under Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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Celebrating Open Access Week
Last week was Open Access Week, and my library hosted an afternoon program for faculty. We started things off with a brief introduction to open access scholarly journal publishing. After a quick review of the origins and history of OA, we discussed the benefits of OA journals for faculty, students, libraries, universities, and the general [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on October 27th, 2009 under Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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The Future of Peer Review?
It’s still a few weeks until Open Access Week, but starting now you can help reimagine what scholarly publishing might look like in the future. Media Studies scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick has made her new book manuscript available online for open peer review. While Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy will go [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on September 29th, 2009 under Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications.
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Balancing Act
I’m kind of in the pickle that Maura describes – subscribed to too many sources of information that I would read if I weren’t so busy keeping up with the stream of new information. But Current Cites is always a good ‘un for finding a cross-section of interesting new stuff and this week it pointed [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 29th, 2009 under Commercialization, Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues, Worth Reading, information industries.
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I’ll Take the Humanities for Ten Thousand
Jennifer Howard of the Chron (subscription required) offers a preview of a study commissioned by the National Humanities Alliance and funded by Mellon which looked at the back office costs of flagship journals published by scholarly societies (many of them in the social sciences, oddly) and concluded that they actually cost more than STM journals. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on July 20th, 2009 under Idiocy, Open Access, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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