The Wired Campus examines the National Center for Atmospheric Research's new OA mandate and its loophole that puts publisher policies first. Some major publishers in the field have restrictive policies, but the center's library director notes that many authors have moved to OA journals by Copernicus instead.
Revues.org, a French portal for OA and delayed OA journals in the social sciences and humanities, has been redesigned. One change is the addition of a partial interface in English, as the portal aims to become increasingly international.
Philip Davis criticizes Stuart Shieber's conclusion that vanity journals are not a significant part of OA publishing. Davis writes, "Shieber’s positive correlation between quality and price cannot be viewed as evidence against a OA vanity press industry".
P.S. There's more news than usual this week, due in not insignificant part to Open Access Week. As a result, it's taking longer than usual to post news, both due to my limited time and out of a desire to keep the number of posts per day to a reasonable level.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/21/2009 06:19:00 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 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.
