Nature on open access publishing

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Nature Open Access Debate

Nature Open Access Debate 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

Nature is hosting a debate on open access science publishing. At the center of the debate are Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, two open access journal publishers using the Creative Commons Attribution License. The PLoS evidence paper presents a good summary of what is wrong with the current scholarly publishing model, why open access is important, and an open access business model.

Even as the much needed debate on open access journals heats up, it is just one part of a bigger picture where science, creativity, law, and society collide. Perhaps with this in mind, note the recent post on this weblog concerning the launch of the Science Commons exloratory phase.

Open-Access Publishing: Creator or
Destroyer of Wealth?

Open-Access Publishing: Creator or
Destroyer of Wealth? 05/16/2004 06:36 AM
Open-Access Publishing: Creator or Destroyer of Wealth?
http:// www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/15.html

Marie Meyer, Managing Director of open-access publisher Vertilog, rejects the idea that an open-access publication is sustainable if a business can deliver what customers need or want, at a price that they are willing to pay. No, she says. Companies are sustainable in the long run only if they create economic value -- and simply generating revenues is not evidence of value creation. "If I set up a business selling £1 coins for 99p, it could easily generate revenue. How long I could afford to stay in business is another matter entirely." Criticizing those who have argued that the Internet changes everything, she says that open-access publishing models don't create new value and "could easily be ushering in a dot-com-style cycle of wealth destruction that will leave them -- and dozens of learned societies -- constantly scratching for funds, with nothing left over for funding innovation." (Nature 6 May 2004)

PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing
Option

PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing
Option 05/25/2004 05:26 AM
PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option
http://www.pnas.org/

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) now offers an open access publishing option. PNAS authors may opt to pay a $1000 surcharge to make their articles available for free via PNAS Online (www.pnas.org) and PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov) immediately upon publication. PNAS will offer this open access option as an experiment until December 31, 2005. PNAS will then continue to move toward an author-pays open access model, maintain the option in the same or modified form, or discontinue it. By introducing this option, PNAS strengthens its commitment to making the scientific literature more freely available than ever before, and hopes that its support of open access will encourage other scientific publishers to follow suit. PNAS will evaluate author participation and the financial impact of the open access option on PNAS revenue.

"The benefits to science of unfettered access to the literature are obvious," says Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, PNAS Editor-in-Chief. "Open access publishing offers the immediate release of scientific results to everyone without the delay and cost of obtaining research articles through journal subscriptions. The challenge of open access is how to pay for it. This is particularly important for PNAS, which operates as a nonprofit, break-even operation and does not maintain contingency funds or capital reserves. PNAS is starting by experimenting with an open access option for authors. It is a compromise between open access for all articles and doing business as usual." The first open access article is by Yang and Purves (1), published online in PNAS Early Edition on May 19, 2004.

Open Access Publishing Takes Another
Step Forward

Open Access Publishing Takes Another
Step Forward 06/17/2005 05:02 PM

Science Commons - a new project of Creative Commons that works to encourage sharing of scientific and academic knowledge - has launched an Open Access Law Program. The Program is designed to make legal scholarship "open access," that is freely available online to everyone, without undue copyright and licensing restrictions. The Program involves an Open Access Law Author Pledge, Open Access Law Principles and an Open Access Law Model Publication Agreement.Our very own Chairman & CEO, Lawrence Lessig, is one of the first signatories to the Open Access Law Author Pledge. In addition, 21 important law reviews have adopted the Open Access Principles, or have policies that are consistent with them. Leading journals like such as Michigan Law Review, Animal Law, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Indiana Law Journal, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Michigan State Law Review and, New York Law School Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Wayne Law Review and Michigan State Law Review have signed on, as have all of the journals published by Duke Law School and Villanova Law School. More information about the Program is available at the Science Commons Program page. The Program is one part of the Science Commons Publishing Project, which is working to support open access to scholarly research in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, entomology, biology, anthropology and now law.

The Devil You Don’t Know: The
Unexpected Future of Open Access
Publishing

The Devil You Don’t Know: The
Unexpected Future of Open Access
Publishing 08/11/2004 05:03 AM
The Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing by Joseph J. Esposito
http://firstmo nday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/

With the advent of the Internet and online publishing, the notion has arisen that access to the world’s research publications could be made available to one and all for free, presumably by shifting the costs to other places in the value chain and disintermediating publishers, a circumstance called Open Access (OA) publishing. While there are many hopes embedded in this view (lower costs, wider access, etc.), it appears more likely that Open Access will come about not through a revolution in the world of legacy publishing, but through upstart media built with the innate characteristics of the Internet in mind. An unanticipated outcome of this situation will be that the overall cost of research publications will rise, though the costs will be borne by different players, primarily authors and their proxies.

Nature Publishing Group Adds Bunch of
RSS Feeds

Nature Publishing Group Adds Bunch of
RSS Feeds 08/10/2004 07:26 PM
Nature Publishing Group has added a bunch of RSS feeds. Some of them sound like nature journals, like "Nature Biotechnology" and "Nature Structural & Molecular Biology," but the British Dental...

Open source cracks publishing wide open

Open source cracks publishing wide open 06/17/2004 11:24 AM
Once upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations. Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat. Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle, are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.

sunshineweek.org -- open access, open
government

sunshineweek.org -- open access, open
government 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
sunshineweek.org -- open access, open government .. National Sunshine Week .. So it's Sunshine Week .. Sunshineweek

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Open Access STM Literature

Open Access STM Literature 08/17/2004 04:08 AM
Open Access STM Literature
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3061258

The more than 2,000 publishers offering STM (scientific, technological and medical) literature collectively publish 1.2 million articles a year in about 16,000 periodical journals, but their success is being challenged by the "open access" movement. In the U.K., the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee says that the country's universities should be required to ensure that all their research papers are available free online, and that government-funded research grants ought to include free access to the findings a condition of the awards. In the U.S., the House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations approved a provision in a bill that backs open access to material published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and the leading research associations of Germany, France and Switzerland have signed the so-called Berlin Declaration calling for free access to research findings. Barbara Meredith, a vice-president at the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, says that the open access movement could undermine the sustainability of the publishing industry, even though the entire open access literature currently represents less than 1% of what is published. The Economist magazine comments: "Prestige has its uses and the open-access journals will, no doubt, establish a pecking-order among themselves fairly quickly. But for prestige at any price, time is probably up.

Open Access Law: Launched

Open Access Law: Launched 06/17/2005 05:03 PM
Following my whining about a copyright agreement I was asked by Minnesota Law Review to sign (and an update to that complaint: Minnesota was very gracious about changing the contract once I asked them), Dan Hunter of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Michael Carroll of Villanova Law School, and on the Creative Commons board, began pulling together an Open Access Law Project, as part of the Science Commons. On Monday, the project launched. The project has developed and will maintain three distinct threads.

The first is a statement of Open Access Law (OAL) Journal Principles. Twenty-two journals have sig ned on so far.

The second is an OAL Author's Pledge, which authors who published in law journals can take to signal their willingness to publish in OAL journals only. I've sign ed this pledge, and will be working to recruit others as well.

Finally, we have drafted a OAL Model Publishing Agreement that is consistent with the principles of the OAL Project.

We were motivated to launch this project by the recognition that in fact, there is no substantial institutional resistance to open access publishing in law. The major commercial publishers of online journals, Lexis and Westlaw, don't require exclusivity. Any resistance is therefore primarily inertia. Our hope was to coordinate efforts to overcome this inertia, and make access to legal materials cheaper and more universal. Each part of this project will evolve as we learn more about how best to achieve these goals. We're looking for more feedback, and are opening a discussion list for input. You can help this project by encouraging other authors and journals to sign on. If you're a law student, then send an email to your professors asking them to join. The same with law journals you might have connections with. We are eager to establish a minimum set of Open Access Law standards quickly, so that others can begin to experiment with better, more ambitious, ideas. This project is also significant for a more CC-local reason. This is the first project chaired completely outside the organization. I'm grateful to Dan Hunter for his work. His success is a model I hope we can implement elsewhere as well. We've got a million ideas for expanding the commons. But we only have a few overworked souls at Creative and Science Commons to carry them into effect. If we can identify other efficient and hard working souls like Dan to volunteer on a project, we can expand our work more quickly. Ideas welcome.

Open Access News

Open Access News 03/09/2004 12:06 AM
Open Access News
http://www.earl ham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

This news weblog presents updates on the open access movement, defined here as the goal of: "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." The blog's archives are available in weekly installments, dating back to May 2002. In addition to news, the site has a lengthy guide to terms, software, and associations; sources; discussion forums, mailing lists, and internet resource links.

Senior Publishing Executive Joins
World's Largest Online Library - Hiring
of Publishing Industry Veteran, Richard
Koffler, Signals Strong Growth Plans for
Questia’s Content Acquisition

Senior Publishing Executive Joins
World's Largest Online Library - Hiring
of Publishing Industry Veteran, Richard
Koffler, Signals Strong Growth Plans for
Questia’s Content Acquisition 06/03/2004 02:08 AM
Publishing industry insider, Richard Koffler, joins Questia, the world's largest online library, to aggressively grow the Questia collection of 49,000 books and 390,000 articles. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]

Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals 09/20/2004 02:51 PM
fully open and available free peer-reviewed journals .. directory for open access journals .. open journal movement .. Journals Full Text .. DOAJ

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Open-Access Journals Flourish

Open-Access Journals Flourish 04/11/2005 06:28 AM
As more academic and medical publishers charge authors instead of advertisers, critics fear conflicts of interest will tarnish research. By Randy Dotinga.

More Open Access To Digital Content

More Open Access To Digital Content 11/17/2003 04:17 AM
While things like MIT's OpenCourseWare and the new file sharing of lessons from the Berklee College of Music are getting all the attention, the well known iBiblio has been chugging away for over a decade, hosting all sorts of content for free. Years ago, it was known as SunSITE, when it was sponsored by Sun, but it eventually became iBiblio, and is hosted at UNC. It's mostly known for hosting open source software, but is expanding rapidly into all sorts of open content that people all over the world find useful. The guy who runs it seems to understand that there's a value in giving away things for free - and says that he's told folks in the music industry how they're making a mistake in calling music downloaders pirates. He points out that the people who go to the trouble of downloading music are the ones who are most interested in the music, and thus should be the people the recording industry is most excited about.

AOL's Open Mail Access Isn't

AOL's Open Mail Access Isn't 04/28/2004 06:49 PM
You can access and open AOL messages with any IMAP client, but outbound mail support is officially available only to Eudora and the mail apps from Microsoft. By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Open access to government documents?
What's that?

Open access to government documents?
What's that? 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
"I can make your life very difficult..." In January, journalists posing as regular citizens attempted to review documents under Florida's open access laws. 43% of all requests were denied, and in some cases volunteers were lied to, harassed or even threatened by government officials.

Open Access (Journal) Collections

Open Access (Journal) Collections 12/10/2003 10:21 AM
Open Access (Journal) Collections
http ://www.joanconger.net/ERIL/list_issues_openaccess.html

A listing of Open Access Journal Collections available over the Internet from ERIL ( Electronic Resources in Libraries ) that is an ongoing work in progress.

Duke explaines leadership in Open Access

Duke explaines leadership in Open Access 06/22/2005 02:31 AM
The Duke Law School offers an explanation of its leadership in the Open Access Law movement. Of course, that part of the world is responsible for lots of important movements of freedom, and that law school is particularly responsible.

NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open

NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open 06/05/2004 10:22 AM

Open Access To Scientific Literature:
Can It Work?

Open Access To Scientific Literature:
Can It Work? 06/09/2004 12:43 PM

Virtual Access Open Source Project

Virtual Access Open Source Project 11/02/2003 10:52 AM
VA - Alpha Binaries v6.0.0.6

Theory of Computing - Open Access
Journal

Theory of Computing - Open Access
Journal 03/22/2005 05:09 PM

Theory of Computing - Open Access Journal

Scientists launch open-access journals

Scientists launch open-access journals 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

A group of scientists launched an open-access scientific journals project: the Public Library of Science . Supported by a $9 million grant from the Moore Foundation , the two journals, Public Library of Science Biology and Public Library of Science Medicine , are planned to appear in 2003.
The thinking behind the project is the argument that scientific research is a public good, and should be accessible to all , in the interests of education and informed public debate. The project participates in a larger movement of open-access scholarly journals , and:

is an outgrowth of several years of friction between scientists and the journals over who should control access to scientific literature in the electronic age. For most scientists, who typically assign their copyright to the journals for no compensation, the main goal is to distribute their work as widely as possible.

(thanks to Becky!)

Free/Open-Access Academic Journals
Growing

Free/Open-Access Academic Journals
Growing 04/14/2005 02:31 AM

First issue of open access biology
journal launched

First issue of open access biology
journal launched 10/29/2003 12:11 AM

The first issue of the Public Library of Science Biology journal was published today. The publication's strategy is aimed at maximizing access to peer-reviewed , scholarly material by not charging readers , while increasing its dissemination speed. PLOS also intervenes in the copyright debate, publishing under a Creative Commons license .

The launch has attracted a great deal of attention , discussion and criticism . More journal titles are due to appear soon.

via Open Access News

Independent ISPs Team Up To Fight For
Open Access

Independent ISPs Team Up To Fight For
Open Access 04/15/2004 02:23 PM
Finally realizing that having each independent ISP argue the point separately and hoping that it all worked out, a group of such ISPs are banding together to fight for open access to cable broadband lines. The FCC has been pretty clear in not opening up access to the cable lines, though they've looked vulnerable in court lately. The entire "open access" debate is only going to get much, much messier before it's settled - which isn't really good for anyone. In the meantime, though, over in the DSL world, Qwest and Covad have signed a line-sharing deal - showing that private deals can happen without regulation.

Achieving Open Access: Alternatives To
Author Charges

Achieving Open Access: Alternatives To
Author Charges 09/10/2004 05:47 AM
Achieving Open Access: Alternatives To Author Charges
http://www.library. yale.edu/science/oa.html

There probably isn't a researcher or scholar alive who wouldn't love to see true open access to scholarly journals -- freely available, immediate electronic access to published, peer-reviewed research articles. And while some open access does exist -- in a limited way to some journals -- the author proposes some ideas for making open access a more universal reality. One plan being implemented by some publishers calls for "author charges" as an alternative to traditional subscriptions. The assumption is that those with vested interests should pay for the distribution of the material, and that government grants and other sources of income will fund these direct payments. Noting that this model is flawed for a variety of reasons, the article suggests instead that alternatives can provide the desired access without destabilizing the system. One interesting idea is to reconsider the entire "publish or perish" focus of the promotion and tenure process. The existing system encourages unlimited scholarly publication, and enormous numbers of editorial boards with little guarantee of quality control from many commercial operations. Ideally, if papers were only being written and published because their authors truly had something to say, everybody would benefit. (Yale University Science Libraries)

Phone exec: "People don't want open
Internet access"

Phone exec: "People don't want open
Internet access" 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Cory Doctorow: The COO of 3, a European 3G wireless company, has uttered one of the stupidest things ever said by a phone company executive (there's a field with some stiff competition!). In justifying his company's decision to censor the Internet services delivered over its wireless link (they're only allowing customers to access certain, selected services, rather than providing a fast wireless pipe that customers can use as they see fit), this loonytune has this to say:

'People don't want open access, that's not what our customers tell us they want,' he said. 'Anyone in their right mind who tries to do anything on the Internet with a screen that size has to be nuts.'

Link (via Engadget)

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research 08/06/2004 09:25 AM

Open Access to Scientific and Technical
Information: State of the Art and Future
Trends

Open Access to Scientific and Technical
Information: State of the Art and Future
Trends 01/03/2004 09:28 AM
Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and Future Trends
http://www.inist.fr /openaccess/index_en.php
http ://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0312/0173.html

Gerry McKiernan, New Year Librarian, Iowa State University, posted a recent eMail stating that the audio visuals (slides, video, et.al) were available for this previous well received and highly competetnt conference on the current happenings and future trends in the access to scientific and technical information. Gerry also stated that these are important presentations that should be required viewing for every librarian (and those who wish they were).

National Institutes of Health proposes
full, open, public access to biomedical
research

National Institutes of Health proposes
full, open, public access to biomedical
research 09/09/2004 12:44 PM

The National Institutes of Health is recommending that researchers who receive NIH funding make their work available to the world for no cost six months after completion:

Under the proposed policy, journal peer-review committees would vet papers that report results from NIH-sponsored research. Once the journal has edited and published the articles, editors would upload them to a searchable Web site and NIH would make them publicly available within 6 months.

The NIH initially recommended immediate publication, but added the six month embargo as a compromise with publishers, who argued that immediate availability would undermine their business model.

(via Clara Yu

Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection

Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection 02/01/2005 09:16 PM
PatentCafe's Natural Language Based OSS Patent Search Engine™ Accelerates Software Developers' Use of IBM's 500 Pledged Patents. Freely accessible by the entire OSS community, PatentCafe's Open Source Software Patent Search Engine adds significant value to IBM's contribution by accelerating the integration of IBM's patented technology into the marketplace, helping to foster worldwide interoperability standards. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

10.3: Access Open dialog box from Save
dialog box

10.3: Access Open dialog box from Save
dialog box 12/14/2003 02:18 AM
In Panther (not sure about Jaguar), if you save a file for the first time (so you get the dialog box) or use Save as..., and then hit Command-O (the File -> Open shortcut), you can then open any file in the program in which y...

[security bulletin] SSRT4719 hp OpenView
Select Access remote unauthorized access

[security bulletin] SSRT4719 hp OpenView
Select Access remote unauthorized access 05/26/2004 01:45 PM
Boren, Rich (SSRT) (May 25 2004)

Cogent Acquires Assets of Dedicated
Internet Access Provider, Global Access

Cogent Acquires Assets of Dedicated
Internet Access Provider, Global Access 09/15/2004 10:58 PM
Investors Business Daily Sep 16 2004 2:36AM GMT

Outlook Web Access Stops Responding When
You Try to Access a Mailbox on an
Exchange 5.5 Computer

Outlook Web Access Stops Responding When
You Try to Access a Mailbox on an
Exchange 5.5 Computer 12/31/2003 01:34 AM
This patch resolves problems that were found in the Exchange Server 5.5 CDO since SP4 was released.

Bintec Access Networks Ships new VPN
Access line

Bintec Access Networks Ships new VPN
Access line 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum May 6 2004 3:57PM GMT

Sometimes Nature needs a little help

Sometimes Nature needs a little help 08/02/2004 12:00 PM
Here Comes The Sun Beatles - Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it's all right...
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