October 2007
Taylor & Francis is delighted to announce that its “iOpenAccess” option has been extended to cover 31 journals in environmental and agricultural sciences, behavioural sciences and development studies. This is in addition to the 175 journals from T&F’s Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics portfolios, 7 behavioural science journals from Psychology Press, and medical and bioscience journals from Informa Healthcare.
From today, all authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication in one of these iOpenAccess journals will have the option to make their articles available to all via the Journal’s website, and to post to repositories, for a one-off fee which is current $3,100
October 4th, 2007
PMC Physics A has published its first articles. It’s the first journal from PhysMath Central, the OA spinoff of BioMed Central. From today’s announcement:
PhysMath Central, BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform for the fields of physics, mathematics and computer science, today announced that PMC Physics A, the first PhysMath Central journal, has published its first research articles. The articles included a groundbreaking study that could change the way physicists understand dark matter….
PhysMath Central also announces that its second journal, PMC Physics B will be edited jointly by Prof. Peter Hatton, Professor of Physics, Durham University, and Prof. Steve Buckman of Australian National University. The new journal will focus on condensed matter and atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics.
“This is exciting news for us as we continue our aim of bringing new open access journals to all areas of physics,” said Chris Leonard, associate publisher, PhysMath Central….
October 2nd, 2007
The Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), advanced a measure yesterday that would make articles written by Harvard professors in scholarly journals available online at no cost.
The proposal would create a system of “open access” whereby the authors could make their work available either on a personal or university Web site for free, according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who serves on the council.
Professors would have the option to opt out of the new system, Ryan said.
September 28th, 2007
IRCSET has launched a consultation today on its proposed open access mandate. This is the
first proposed open access mandate by an Irish funding council.
Details of the consultation along with the proposed mandate (which is in line with the EURAB Recommendations) is available here:
http://www.ircset.ie/consultation_070907.html
Closing date for submissions is September 28th.
September 17th, 2007
Portal to bring together Europe’s top economics research
Leading economics libraries, including UCD Library, have won a €2 million bid to create a high-profile economics research portal. The project, called Network of European Economists Online (NEEO), will address the lack of integration of academic output because of the way information is currently dispersed.
NEEO is an initiative of the Nereus consortium of academic libraries. The members of the consortium, including many of the top twenty European academic economics institutions, together with other leading European economics research institutes, will create a networked service providing open access to economics information, showcasing Europe’s leading research results.
Mr Sean Phillips, UCD Librarian, says: “The award of this grant is very good news; it is an encouraging example of the European Commission’s interest in presenting European research to the widest possible audience. The Library is committed to developing an institutional repository which will showcase the work of UCD’s researchers”
Professor Rodney Thom, Head of the UCD School of Economics says: “This is excellent news for our researchers. We are very pleased that UCD Library will be working with other major European institutions to create the premier open access economics research portal in Europe”
The project will deliver:
• integrated academic output, including, journal articles, working papers, chapters, conference proceedings and datasets
• a central multilingual portal and full-text search service with links to the full-text research publications and primary data output
• more comprehensive access to the life’s work of 500 leading researchers
• access to the current research results of leading institutions in the area of economics
• primary datasets with links to the publications based upon them.
Content from the partner institutions will also appear in specialist information retrieval services.
Hans Geleijnse, Director of Library and IT Services at Tilburg University and Director of the Project, says “We are very pleased with the support the European Commission is giving to this project. It confirms the interest of the EC in institutional repositories, open access, and increasing the visibility of European research. It is encouraging that so many prominent institutions will collaborate in this area.”
Members of the Schools of Economics and GPEP, Geary Institute and other individual researchers across the University will be participating.
September 17th, 2007
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