by Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insistContinue reading “A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access”
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Open Access or: How I learned to stop worrying . . . ” – Oct 20
Did you know that access to some scholarly journals can cost as much as buying a new car . . . every year? That is a price that UI Libraries cannot afford, but it is a research tool that YOU can’t afford to work without. So what do we do? Open Access: it means moreContinue reading “Open Access or: How I learned to stop worrying . . . ” – Oct 20″
‘The man who brought the literary world to Iowa.’
In 2000, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack declared Oct. 12 to be “Paul Engle Day,” in honor of the Iowa-born poet who served as head of the Writer’s Workshop from 1942 to 1977, helping to develop it from an obscure experimental program to an internationally renowned literary center. Featured here is an audio recording from theContinue reading “‘The man who brought the literary world to Iowa.’”
Create Open Access Video for the Sparky Awards
Washington, DC – The organizers of the popular Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of information sharing, have announced that Pat Aufderheide, Director of the Center for Social Media and professor at American University, and Ben Moskowitz, organizer of the Open Video Alliance and co-founder of theContinue reading “Create Open Access Video for the Sparky Awards”
Voices of Open Access – Videos
Join us in celebrating Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009. Check out interviews with a Teacher, Funder, Patient Advocate, Physician Scientist, Librarian and Student who explain why Open Access matters to them. Brought to you by: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: sparc.org/ ; Public Library of Science: plos.org/ ; Students for Free Culture: freeculture.org/ Voices ofContinue reading “Voices of Open Access – Videos”
Iowa Journal TV Series to feature F.W. Kent Images – Oct 8
Iowa Public Television’s Iowa Journal series is airing a documentary on the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. It will feature many images from the F.W. Kent, Robert Wylie and records of the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory collections in the University Archives. You can see the Iowa Journal on IPTV at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8.
Open Access Week – Oct 19-23
To accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward Open Access to scholarly research results, October 19 – 23, 2009 will mark the first international Open Access Week. The now-annual event, expanded from one day to a full week, presents an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policiesContinue reading “Open Access Week – Oct 19-23”