http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/ en-us 2009-11-20T11:37:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/206168.html ISI reports that their popular index to the scholarly literature, Web of Science, covers the contents of 494 peer-reviewed open access journals. That amounts to 4.5% of the roughly 11,000 journals covered by the service, also known by its subsets... reports and statements stemp003 2009-11-20T11:37:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/204211.html From the Alliance for Taxpayer Access November 10, 2009 press release: "For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible," is the message that forty one Nobel... reports and statements stemp003 2009-11-13T12:37:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/199924.html From the October 26 issue of the Minnesota Daily: Gabriel Weisberg , a reviews editor at an open-access journal called "Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide," said open access journals are becoming a necessity. Weisberg, who is also a professor of art history... in the news stemp003 2009-10-26T13:45:16-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/199576.html Excerpted from Jane H Smith's 22 Oct 2009 posting to the SPARC Author's Rights Forum discussion list: A major upgrade to RoMEO has been released today, giving: * Extra Category for the self-archiving of the Publisher's Version/ PDF * Expanded... in the news stemp003 2009-10-23T11:12:34-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/198058.html The goal of Open Access Week is to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. To hear why researchers... Events stemp003 2009-10-16T11:33:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/198057.html From the University of Michigan News Service's October 8, 2009 press release: The University of Michigan Press is joining with HathiTrust Digital Library to open electronic content for free online access. U-M Press plans to have 1,000 or more titles... in the news stemp003 2009-10-16T11:27:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/195266.html From the Sep 23, 2009 press release from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access: The Presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the U.S., representing 22 states, have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373) in... reports and statements stemp003 2009-10-02T16:43:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/191753.html In the Sept. 15 edition of Inside Higher Ed, Scott Jaschik reports on a commitment by Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for... in the news stemp003 2009-09-18T10:05:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/190732.html RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), a publicly available online archive of working papers, journal articles and software, now has over 462,000 online journal articles. From The RePEc Blog: The month of July is generally calm. Regular classes are not in... in the news stemp003 2009-09-11T17:29:16-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/189837.html From the Sept. 1 press release of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication: The Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) today unveiled the beta‐test site for its open access repository, http://dash.harvard.edu, to the public. DASH, for Digital Access to Scholarship... in the news stemp003 2009-09-04T14:01:19-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/188552.html Steve Hitchcock of the Open Citation Project has updated his excellent resource, "The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies." http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html Here is Hitchcock's introduction: Despite significant growth in the number of research... stemp003 2009-08-21T17:44:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/187659.html From Harvard University Library's Office for Scholarly Communication: http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/oapublishers.php The following journal publishers have formally indicated cooperation with Harvard's open access policies and have agreed that Harvard faculty who publish in their journals may deposit those articles in Harvard's DASH... in the news stemp003 2009-08-07T17:31:37-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/186556.html From the July 20 Chronicle of Higher Education, some news that counters the myth that journal pricing issues affect only the Science-Technology-Medicine disciplines: On average, it cost nearly $10,000 to publish an article in a humanities or social-science journal in... stemp003 2009-07-24T09:33:17-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/185667.html The Libraries' Scholarly Communication Collaborative encourages you to contact our Senators and ask them to support the Federal Research Public Access Act. Below is their contact information; farther below is an excerpt from the call to action issued by SPARC... in the news stemp003 2009-07-13T12:29:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/184382.html From a June 23 message sent by Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas, to the ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Directors Discussion List: Colleagues: I am pleased to inform you that the Faculty Senate has approved... policies stemp003 2009-06-24T16:56:43-06:00