http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/ en-us 2013-02-19T13:35:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/385926.html From the SPARC Advocacy News section, posted Feb 14, 2013: The bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) was introduced in Congress on February 14, 2013. Co-sponsored in the Senate by Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron... in the news scholcom 2013-02-19T13:35:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/385871.html Changes to Public Access Policy Compliance Efforts Apply to All Awards with Anticipated Start Dates on or after July 1, 2013 Notice Number: NOT-OD-13-042 Key Dates Release Date: February 14, 2013 Related Notices NOT-OD-13-035 NIH Requires Use of RPPR for... policies chewx002 2013-02-19T08:23:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/383946.html From De Gruyter's January 24 press release: The Max Planck Society and the academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed a groundbreaking agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers texts intended for publication by... in the news stemp003 2013-02-01T14:09:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/383138.html From an article by Richard Van Noorden in the January 17 issue of Nature weekly: Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint server arXiv. The project was publicly... in the news stemp003 2013-01-25T12:26:12-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/382516.html From the CIHR Open Access Policy: Notice Amendments were made to the CIHR Open Access Policy, formerly known as the Policy on Access to Research Outputs. As of January 1, 2013, CIHR-funded researchers will be required to make their peer-reviewed... policies stemp003 2013-01-18T14:42:26-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/382152.html From the January 10 post to the Liblicense discussion group by Richard Dodenhoff, Journals Director for the American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics: The journal Pharmacological Reviews (ISSN 1521-0081) has moved to continuous publication: articles are being published in... stemp003 2013-01-11T13:41:24-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/381763.html From Heather Morrison at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication: 2012 was yet another awesome year for open access growth. To illustrate just how far we've come: a BASE search of over 2,400 repositories now searches over 40 million documents.... in the news stemp003 2013-01-04T16:36:21-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/380938.html From the Chronicle of Higher Education, December 12 issue: Are you a science graduate student worried that making your thesis or dissertation available online will hurt your chances of getting it published? Gail McMillan, director of the digital library and... in the news stemp003 2012-12-14T16:03:17-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/378200.html From the National Institutes of Health's Office of Extramural Research, November 16 posting: When we put the [open access] policy into place in 2008 it was an adjustment for all of us. Since that time, NIH has focused much of... in the news stemp003 2012-11-30T14:15:14-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/376499.html From a study by authors at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine and the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland: Solomon DJ, Björk B-C. A study of open access journals using article processing charges. Journal of the American... stemp003 2012-11-16T15:39:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/374259.html From JSTOR's October 22 press release: A team of researchers led by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington released today the results of an 18-month long study of gender inequality among authors of academic papers. The... in the news stemp003 2012-11-02T13:56:33-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/371084.html Excerpted from our Copyright Program Librarian Nancy Sims' October 10 blog post: The Author's Guild sued Hathi Trust, a collaborative organization of several major research libraries, claiming that the access Hathi was providing to scanned materials (both scanned via the... stemp003 2012-10-12T14:21:55-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/367797.html From Josh Fischman's Sept. 30 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: In incidents involving four scientists--the latest case coming to light two weeks ago--journal editors say authors got to critique their own papers by suggesting reviewers with contact e-mails... reports and statements stemp003 2012-10-03T10:08:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/366279.html Many U-MN faculty publish in Public Library of Science journals. The annual report from PLoS is available. Some highlights: In 2011, PLoS provided $2.5 million in waiver funding for authors unable to pay all or part of their publication fees.... in the news stemp003 2012-09-21T14:05:31-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/365411.html From Jenica Rogers, Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam, on Sept. 12: SUNY Potsdam will not be subscribing to an American Chemical Society online journal package for 2013. We will instead be using a... reports and statements stemp003 2012-09-14T12:09:54-06:00