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”
Category Archives: Scholarly Communication
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″
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”
CIC Provosts File Letter With Court in Google Settlement
The CIC has been a Google digitization partner since 2007. Under the terms of the partnership, Google will digitize up to ten million volumes across the CIC universities . The CIC has filed a letter with the federal court of New York overseeing the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Google Book Search Project – IntroductionIn 2007,Continue reading “CIC Provosts File Letter With Court in Google Settlement”