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A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access

by Peter Suberhttp://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 insist onContinue reading “A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access”

Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community (May 2010)

May 2010Issue 2.10 Welcome to the spring issue of Transitions. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments informing the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement, and other alternative publishing models. Scholarly communicationContinue reading “Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community (May 2010)”

Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community, January 2010

January 2010Issue 1.10 Welcome to the winter issue of Transitions. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments informnig the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement, and other alternative publishing models. ScholarlyContinue reading “Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community, January 2010”

Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community – July 2009

July 2009 Issue 2.09 Welcome to the Summer issue of Transitions. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models.Continue reading “Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community – July 2009”

Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community – March 2009

March 2009 Issue 1.09 Welcome to the Spring issue of Transitions. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models.Continue reading “Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community – March 2009”

Transitions: Scholarly communication news for the UI community – November 2008

November 2008 Issue 3.08 The Fall issue of Transitions is now online. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishingContinue reading “Transitions: Scholarly communication news for the UI community – November 2008”

“Voices of Open Access” Series Available Online

A new video series presents six unique perspectives on the importance of Open Access to research across the higher education community and beyond. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the organizers of the first Open Access Day with Students for FreeCulture, today released the series ofContinue reading ““Voices of Open Access” Series Available Online”

Scholarly communication news for the UI community – February 2008

February 2008 Issue 1.08 Welcome to the February issue of Transitions. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models.Continue reading “Scholarly communication news for the UI community – February 2008”