Draft report on openness in higher ed.
The Committee for Economic Development, a longstanding American business-led think tank, has released a draft of its report, Harnessing Openness to Impro...
Upgrades to RoMEO database of publisher policies
SHERPA, Major RoMEO Upgrade Released, announcement, October 22, 2009.As part of ongoing improvements to the RoMEO service, the Centre for Research Communications is excited to announce...
Opportunities from OA patent info
Robinson Esalimba and William New, Spurring Local Innovation In Africa By Improving Access To Information, Intellectual P...
$5,000+: avg. revenue per STM article
Heather Morrison, Research Brief: Library savings from full flip to open access via article processing fees: about two-thirds savings, The Imaginary J...
EU meeting to draft recommendations on OA
Open Access Week 2009, Enabling Open Scholarship, October 18, 2009.... Four members of the EOS Board will be attending the invitation-only conference h...
Open Access Week is just around the corner
International Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009) is almost upon us -- here's a sampling of some activities worldwide:JISC and
OA mandate at U. Salford
University of Salford, University formally announces intention to be Open Access for research, press release, October 19, 2009.The University has become the 100th university in the wor...
OA a topic at ARL meeting
Jennifer Howard, Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told, The Wired Campus, October 15, 2009.Public access to research is "inevitabl...
Major growth of student support for OA
SPARC, Student coalition for Open Access solidifies, now represents over 5 million students internationally, press release, October 15, 2009.The student
More on Nature's new hybrid journal
Nature Publishing Group, Nature Communications now accepting submissions, press release, October 13, 2009.Nature Communications invites submissions of original rese...
Open access roundup
Bill Hubbard thinks funder mandates should work more closely with institutional repositories.Stuart Lewis, et al....
GPO's failed digitization project: what happened
In August 2008, the U.S. Government Printing Office issued a request for proposals to digitize its legacy collection of 2.2 million documents, back to foundi...
Housekeeping
I'm out today for the Columbus Day federal holiday. See you tomorrow!
Even more activities for OA Week
Here's more of what to expect for the upcoming international Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009):SPARC is hosting a pre-OA Week
More details on Georgia's statewide IR
GT Library receives IMLS grant to create statewide digital repository, Georgia Tech Library News, October 7, 2009. (Than...
