by jzilm | Sep 24, 2012 | News, OA policies & mandates, Open access, Publishing
Scott Jaschik | Inside Higher Ed | September 24, 2012 The movement toward “open access” publishing — in which scholarly journal articles are available free — is taking off without consideration of the impact on humanities scholarship, says a...
by jzilm | Jun 13, 2012 | News, Open access, Publishing
June 11, 2012 | Published by CRCNottingham Alma Swan, Director of European Advocacy, SPARC and Key Perspectives presentation on the Budapest Open Access Initiative – recommendations for the next ten years. See:...
by jzilm | May 30, 2012 | News, Publishing & research impact
“Queen Victoria was the longest serving British monarch, reigning as Queen from 1837 to 1901 and as Empress of India from 1877. In total 141 volumes of her journal survive, numbering 43,765 pages. They have never before been published in their entirety and have...
by jzilm | Apr 25, 2012 | News, Open access, Publishing
The Guardian | April 24, 2012 | Ian Sample “University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University...
by jzilm | Mar 2, 2012 | News, Publishing
Reading in our 21st Century Library: Unexpected Encounters of the Digital and Pre-Digital Kind On March 7 from 11:00-2:00 the Library is hosting an informal opportunity to meet and learn from researchers who are exploring the unique reading and research experiences...
by jzilm | Feb 6, 2012 | News, Publishing
The Economist : Feb 4, 2012 The price of information Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals. “SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a...
