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Developing Open Access Electronic Journals: A Practical Guide
via Peter Scott's Library Blog - sponsored by Credo Reference by Peter on February 13, 2008
David Solomon writes: "Developing Open Access Electronic Journals: A Practical Guide is to my knowledge the first comprehensive book on creating an open access (OA) journal. Thousands of OA journals have been developed over the last 15 years and are becoming an important means of disseminating research and scholarship. While creating a new OA journal need not be difficult, it takes a wealth of...
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Harvard Says Yes To Open Access
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by Blake on February 13, 2008
Inside Higher Ed reports Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty approved a plan on Tuesday that will post finished academic papers online free, unless scholars specifically decide to opt out of the open-access program. While other institutions have similar repositories for their faculty’s work, Harvard’s is unique for making online publication the default option.
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Book News: Random House Testing Single Chapter Esales
via Library Journal News by (author unknown) on February 12, 2008
Random House President Gina Centrello announced February 11 that the Goliath publisher is initiating a pilot project “to sell individual chapters” of Chip and Dan Heath’s Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die online.
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Library Beta Projects
via iLibrarian by Ellyssa on February 14, 2008
College Degree.com brings us 25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World which includes efforts at both academic and public libraries. The list includes prototype initiatives such as the University of Virginia Libraries’ faceted discovery tool, Project Blacklight and the Web Curator Tool project by the by the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library. And for...
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Suddenly, Open Access is all the rage.
via Scholarly Communications @ Duke by Kevin Smith on February 14, 2008
In December the National Institute of Health made public access to research articles that grow out of NIH funded research mandatory; research are now required to place their final version of articles accepted for publication after April 7 into the PubMed Central database at NIH within one year of publication.This was a victory for many library and higher ed. advocates of public access, but there...
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Borders' Concept Store Opens
via PersonaNonData by PersonaNonData on February 14, 2008
Short of visiting Ann Arbor to look over the store myself the nice people at Ann Arbor News got to preview the store opening yesterday and have written a detailed review. I hope to get out there myself in the next few months in the meantime here are some notable items from the AA News article:The store, in the Waters Place plaza near Kohl's in Pittsfield Township, is the first of 14 concept...
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Green with pride
via Universal Hub by adamg on February 14, 2008
Lewis Forman is proud that Popular Science ranks Boston third on a list of green cities.... We are very environmentally friendly and the number of recycling bins I see on Wednesday mornings in Eastie seem to be growing in number. More people are using shared vehicles from ZipCar (love the Mini Coopers). Green initiatives are showing up in every office space, including mine. Hell you could put a...
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Millennials
via BuzzFeed Latest by (author unknown) on February 13, 2008
... that Become Journalists - Are They Doomed?Generation X Is Getting Neglected for The Younger MillennialMillennials Seek Out Companies That Care About the EnvironmentThe Downturn of Human Civilization Is Inspiring Millennials to Get Involved in PoliticsMillennials vs Gen Xers“Millennials Are Civic, Not Idealistic”“Millennials Are Crybabies “Generation Y on Wikipedia
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Oregon faculty senate recommends OA
via Open Access News by Peter Suber on February 14, 2008
The University of Oregon Faculty Senate adopted a resolution in support of OA, February 13, 2008. (Thanks to J.Q. Johnson.)...[T]he University of Oregon University Senate: Encourages all faculty who publish scholarly works to study the issues of copyright ownership and liability, for example as laid out by the Association for Research Libraries SPARC initiative Recommends that if faculty sign a...
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Download of the Day: Better GReader
via geeksugar -- Geek is chic. by geeksugar on February 13, 2008
As a geek, it's kind of embarrassing to admit that I was ever resistant to using an RSS reader, based on the fact that I liked the way many of my blogs look in their original forms. So many sites put a lot of thought into their design, but I slowly came around to putting some of the blogs I read into Google Reader. Of course, I slowly became dependent on it and finally added all my blogs I...
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