Open Access News

News from the open access movement

Friday, October 16, 2009

Barbara Fister, writing in Library Journal, says the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) "makes so much sense it's hard to understand why it hasn't already been implemented".
Responding to the recent STM report on the publishing market, John Houghton says the report repeats a "number of mistakes" in discussing his work on the economic implications of OA.
Three more BioMed Central journals have been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters and will receive their first Impact Factors in 2011 or 2012.
A new JISC study finds that "students expect research content to be immediately accessible, ideally online" and recommends OA as a response.
Rufus Pollock shares a work in progress on patterns of knowledge production, where he wonders, "Do different policies (for example openness vs. closedness � weak vs. strong IP) have implications for the structure of production and hence for output and productivity?"
A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 3762) would provide OA to Congressional Research Service reports. A Senate version (S. Res. 118) was introduced in April.
Across the pond, the EU Publications Office has made 110,000 documents OA: "all publications ever edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU ... since 1952".

Posted by Gavin Baker at 10/16/2009 06:25:00 PM.

The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research.

I curtailed my blogging on July 1, 2009, and recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter. �Peter Suber.