by jzilm | Dec 19, 2013 | Author rights, OA policies & mandates, Open access
How to avoid receiving a takedown notice from a publisher (and what to do if you get one!) Canadian Association of Research Libraries | December 19, 2013 Many researchers make copies of their research articles available on their own personal websites and in their...
by jzilm | Dec 18, 2013 | News, Open access, Publishing
Wired.co.uk | December 17, 2013 | Olivia Solon Academic publisher Elsevier has been targeting open access websites and universities that are posting their own academic articles online with takedown notices for copyright infringement. It started earlier this month,...
by jzilm | Dec 11, 2013 | News, Publishing
The Guardian | December 9, 2013 | Ian Sample “Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a “tyranny” that must be broken, according to a Nobel prize winner who has declared a boycott on the publications. Randy...
by jzilm | Dec 9, 2013 | News, Open access
Gail Clement | College & Research Libraries News | December 2013, pp 562-566 Graduate students at most universities are typically required to deposit their works in their institution’s open access repository – a requirement for graduation. Does...
by jzilm | Nov 29, 2013 | News, Publishing
The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the seventh meeting of the 2013-14 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime seminars for faculty and graduate students in...