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Happy 2012 Open Access Movement! December 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Open access to save costs for teaching and learning
Is the OJS simple statement of open access the best approach, or should we do away with academic copyright altogether
Why require attribution? A Creative Commons discussion item
Noncommercial means noncommercial: Creative Commons discussion
Journals with good Creative Commons models
Three pictures, one small gift, to everyone, with love
To everyone, with love
Scholarly communication for the 1%
Creative Commons, noncommercial and formats
Wiley annual report 2011: costs down, profits up
Articulating the commons: a leaderful approach
Creative Commons and noncommercial - CC version 4.0 discussion
Education is a public good - not a commercial activity
The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access early year-end edition (2011)
Quality of commercial scholarly publishers: what role for the industry?
Dissension in the Open Access Ranks on CC Licenses and Strategies for Publishers
Beall's list of predatory open access publishers (my comments)
Confirming the Wellcome Trust's predictions about article process fee charges
Sage "choice": a critique
Thesis chapter two: scholarly communication in crisis
High profits for commercial publishers - or jobs for academics? Let's #occupyscholcomm
Open Access Week message from / for the British Columbia Library Association
September 30, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Storing all personal data for "security" purposes: some things to think about
A scholar's notes: illustrating the value of re-use
OpenDOAR exceeds 2,000 repositories listed
Mendeley exceeds 100 million papers!
PMC growth: about one free fulltext per minute
STM submission to European Institute of Innovation and Technology: a critique
Open access, books and the royalty question: a research proposal
Let the competition begin! Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 30, 2011
Elsevier profits and faculty priorities
Mandating sustainability. Would Elsevier survive?
Advocacy strategies for open access to agricultural research
Why scholarship should never be a commodity!
Access Copyright: NOT a member
Open access: small victory over procrastination
Open access: definitions and major initiatives
Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2011
Those ACTIVE open access journals!
To everyone, with love (intended as a more permissions URL for CC licenses)
Three pictures, one small gift to everyone, with love (attempt to dedicate 3 pictures to the public domain)
Scholarly communication for the 1%
Creative commons, noncommercial and formats
Wiley annual report 2011: costs down, profits up
Articulating the commons: a leaderful approach
Creative Commons and noncommercial: CC version 4.0 discussion
Education is a public good - not a commercial activity
The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access early year-end edition
Quality of commercial scholarly publishing: what role for the industry?
Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for publishers
Beall's list of predatory, open access publishers
Confirming the Wellcome Trust's predictions about open access article processing fees
Sage "choice": a critique
Thesis chapter two: scholarly communication in crisis
High profits for commercial publishers - or jobs for academics? Let's #occupyscholcomm
Open Access Week message (from / for the British Columbia Library Association)
The dramatic growth of open access September 30, 2011
Storing all personal data for "security" purposes - some things to think about
A scholar's notes - illustrating the value of re-use
Full open access to scholarly monographs - suggesting a local library consortial approach
OpenDOAR exceeds 2,000 repositories!
Mendeley exceeds 100 million papers!
PMC growth - about 1 fulltext per minute
Peter Suber and the open access movement
STM submission to European Institute of Innovation & Technology: a critique
Open access, books and the royalty argument: a research proposal
Let the competition begin! Dramatic growth of open access June 30, 2011
Elsevier profits and faculty priorities
Mandating sustainability. Would Elsevier survive?
Advocacy strategies for open access to agricultural research
Why scholarship should never be a commodity!
Access copyright: NOT a member
Open access: small victory over procrastination
Open access: definitions and major initiatives
Dramatic growth of open access March 31, 2011
Those ACTIVE open access journals!
Review of Scholarly Communication for Librarians
NO to google books settlement - hurray for academics, access to knowledge and democracy!
Open thesis: draft introduction
Assessing new open access journals
The path to peace is through hearts and minds
Illustrating of the potential for saving with a global shift to open access
Tetrahedron article processing fee: overpriced. very
Core values of librarianship
Bill C-32 (Canada's Copyright Reform Act: Response from an OA Advocate)
Access Copyright insanity: possible solutions?
Nature Publishing Group and Scientific Reports: getting serious about open access competition
Hindawi 40% growth in submissions in 2010
PLoS ONE: now THE world's largest journal?
2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Dramatic Growth of Open Access brief update: chart showing gold growth
Libraries: is this YOUR free cash? informa (Taylor & Francis) glowing picture for investors (economics 101)
December 11, 2010 early year-end edition
September 30, 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Full open access articles with 70% cost savings for libraries
Wiley open access moves: scholarly societies pushing for open access?
Of downloads and lemmings
Wanted: a don't-be-evil online music store
Open access advocacy for the procrastinator
Worlds of differences between publishers (economics 101)
Cultural Studies: for-profit journals cost up to 10 times more than not-for-profit
LIBER Keynote: The role of the research library in an emerging global public sphere (LIBER keynote)
Open Access for Canada - for Canadian impact
If we don't need to read the research results for a while - why not redirect the research funding?
American Psychological Association claims to pay for peer review. Should we send them a bill?
The dinosaurs roar, or, does the U.S. need an Outmoded Lab Equipment law?
The role of the research library in an emerging global public sphere (LIBER keynote)
Good works (social housing) in progress in Vancouver
Support for open access policy in Denmark
OA mandate at Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2010 (brief version)
Open Access Journals Support in Canada
On the wide disparity in publisher cost-efficiency
Open Access submission to Canada's Digital Economy Consultation
Anti-OA spin on Inside Higher Ed
The latest open access controversy: are we in the age of open access, or just on the verge?
Open access policies in Europe: David Prosser article
The journals of unfunded research
Food for all: letter to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) urging open access
Springer (owner of BMC) did NOT sign the anti-FRPAA letter
Canada's Digital Economy Consultation: help vote up Open Access to Canadian Research
Private sector and long term responsibility for scholarly work? Nonsense!
On behalf of many: division within traditional publishers re anti-FRPAA lobbying
Canada's Digital Economy Consultation: some preliminary thoughts
Over 20% of the world's scholarly journals now open access! (Kudos to DOAJ)
Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use
Elsevier 2009 $2 billion profits could fund worldwide OA at $1,383 per article
Wiley STM: 3rd quarter profits up 18%
Informa (Taylor & Francis etc.): profits up, majority renewing at previous high rates
Concordia University's open access mandate
The direct and indirect benefits of open access for the public
The global scope of the open access movement
DOAJ Media and Communication list: open data / open knowledge
International Communication Association on open access
Another reason why the world needs librarians
WorldCat rights and responsibilites for the OCLC Cooperative: comments
Ithaka Faculty Survey 2009: can a mail-based survey capture faculty leadership in adopting new models of scholarly communication?
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2010 edition
New homepage
U.S. systemic savings with a full shift to OA: $3.4 billion
ACTA. End the secrecy - democracy now!
Freedom for scholarship in the internet age: OCULA spotlight
Google Books - what if authors of new books want in?
New open access fund at SFU library
The scholar's copy
Notes for dramatic growth of open access
Slowing down to protect the incumbents - or speeding up to protect the earth?
ARL ACRL Scholarly Communication Institute webinar series
Google Books settlement: open access to my book chapters, please
arXiv business model development
For subscription journals: calculating open access success, and considering your options
Calculating compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy
Clarification re Health and Social Care in the Community and NIH compliance
Open Content Alliance (OCA) vs. Google Books: OCA as superior network and better fit for an emerging global public sphere
Open and evolving scholarship
Response to STM response to US Scholarly Publishing Roundtable
The peculiar practice of democracy? in America
PubMedCentral Canada up and available for searching
Strong open access growth reported by Hindawi
Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Management
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Dec. 31, 2009 New Year's Eve Edition
Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Features and Technology
U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 11, 2009 early year-end edition
Open access to the public domain
University of Ottawa among North Americans leaders in open access
Open access and open education for development
Virginia Libraries: Review of Scholarly Communication for Librarians
In the works as of November 2009
Will google survive google books? Reflections from a friend
Scholarly communication for librarians: catalogued and in circulation!
Research brief: library savings from full flip to OA
Dramatic growth of open access: September 30, 2009
PLoS article-level metrics: substantial value-add for authors
Mass Digitization: Open Content Alliance is the right approach
Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity: a key step in the transition to OA
Taylor and Francis first half results 2009: academic information revenue up 25%, and, are shareholders more interested in OA than T & F?
Housekeeping: study leave / e-mail address change 2009-10
Scholarly communication class: open educational resources
Please join me for ALCTS webinar September 23
Cost per page for HSS journals varies by 15-fold
Humanities and social sciences: thoughts towards transition to OA
Canadian copyright consultation
Michael Smith Foundation adopts strong OA policy
SCOAP3: a key library leadership opportunity in the transition to open access
Open Access Journals Support in Canada: new research project in planning
The benefits of open collaboration from the start!
Beyond PDF. XML is better.
Corrected URL: open access chapter, Scholarly Communication for Librarians
PubMedCentral Canada partnership announced
The Dramatic Growth of PLoS One: soon-to-be world's largest journal
Beyond PDF. XML is better.
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2009
Two chapters of Scholarly Communication for Librarians are now open access
Enhancing the debate on open access: knowledge is for all, not just researchers
The Open Access imperative and education
WolframAlpha: glimpse of the future
Michael Geist's creative open access initiative!
Heather's April-May 2009 presentations
Vancouver enters the age of the open city
University of Calgary Library Faculty Open Access Mandate
ERIC adds 192,000 free fulltext from its microfiche collection
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Open Access Policy
Open Sesame to the Digital World - an open access school library.
Free access to the Cochrane Library for Canada
Don't leave Canada behind: open letter to Canadian government from Canadian researchers.
Ontario contributes $4.7 million more to lab of Toronto-based open access researcher Aled Edwards
Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2009
Growing Canadian membership in DOAJ!.
Usage-based pricing and open access as a catalyst for change
Open Access Journals: Around the World, and Top OA Journal Countries
Canadian Research Knowledge Network looking for expressions of interest in supporting major OA initiative in physics
Open Access policy development - some thoughts on process
Canada, let's fix the open access policy loophole BEFORE we harmonize.
Towards PubMedCentral Canada: update.
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Supports Open Access Resources.
Two calls for open access from Québec.
Who Knows Where the Next Great Idea will come from? Why open access to the world's knowledge is a great boon in tough times.
Wiley revenues increase 36% in 2008
An Open Net Means Open Opportunity
National Film Board Makes Films Free Online
Will Canada seize the lead in the open access movement in the history books - or cede to the U.S.?
Michael Geist calls on Canadian government to implement open access policies
OpenDOAR Exceeds 1,300!
Scholarly Publishers Recognize the Usefulness of Institutional Repositories
Molecular Biology of the Cell, or Why Open Access by Article Processing Fees Sometimes Just Makes Sense
December 31, 2008 Dramatic Growth of Open Access - Happy New Year, Open Access!
Re: should university presses adopt an OA model?
Dramatic Growth of Open Access Early Annual Edition December 11, 2008
Scroll: Essays on the Design of Electronic Text
Bioline International: Supporting Quality Open Access Publishing in the Developing World
Cost-Free Open Data with Google and Amazon
Drop print to save money, with print-on-demand for those who like print
Scholarly Society Memberships: a Cost-Free Way to Support Scholarly Societies AND Open Access
Essential Efficiencies
Pre-Submission Peer Review to Reduce Journal Costs
Comments on EU Green Paper: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
Who benefits from the University of Calgary Open Access Authors' Fund?
Heather Morrison: Speaker Biography - Open Access and Scholarly Communications
Should university presses adopt an OA model for all of their scholarly books?
The trouble with metrics (for scholarship)
CLA announces new open access interest group
Announcing the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Competing in the open access environment: will the smalls have the advantage?
Springer to acquire BioMedCentral: major milestone in transition to open access.
NIH Compliance Rate Triples So Far With Mandatory Policy!
Open Access Service Charges: Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences
Twice as much gold OA articles in 2008 as in 2006!
Open Access - refining the definition: work versus process
ibelieveinopen.ca
Housekeeping: Dramatic Growth of Open Access Release Dates
PubMedCentral Canada (PMC) Initiative
CANLII - Legal open access database - is the most frequently used electronic resource by Canadian lawyers!
Copyright Transfer: Not Necessarily a Condition for Publication (Taylor & Francis)
Beautiful Butterfly: Quick Lesson in Creative Commons
Sherpa RoMEO: even white is looking very green!
Society for Reproduction and Fertility Free Access: A Good Model
DOAJ over 200,000 searchable articles!
Danielle Dennie and Librarian Activist.Org
Thinking about Prestige, Quality, and Open Access
Meet Pam Ryan
Tracey Lauriault
Meet Hugh McGuire
Epilepsia: Free public access for NIH; charges for Wellcome authors
Wiley Online Open: Why Print-Based Costs?
The American Journal of Transplantation will deposit all articles in PMC!
DOAJ growth rate nearly doubles in the past year
Open Access in Canada: College and Research Libraries News article
Open Access Institutional Memberships: Innovations at PLoS and Hindawi
RSS feeds for mostly-OA/free sites
Elsevier Profits: $1,750 per minute - and growing?
Forthcoming and in the works August 2008
Digital Rights Management: Should it be Legal, and What About Consumer Warnings?
Oxford University Press Deposits NIH-Funded Articles into PMC
IJPE: Open Access - Gratis and Libre
What Authors Want: To Retain Copyright
Copyright remains yours: ALPSP License to Publish, 2000
Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recommends copyright retention!
Kudos to Oxford: Transitioning to Open Access
Noteworthy Dramatic Growth July 2008: PMC and RoMEO
National Research Council OA Mandate begins January 2009
Indian Institutes of Science Director favors open archives approach to OA
Scientific Commons exceeds 20 million items
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: correction to growth rate
Open Access Class 2008: Final Projects
NIH Public Access Policy instructions posted prominently on PubMed home page!
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2008
Three forthcoming OA policies announced at ELPUB
Richard Poynder Interviews Leslie Chan
STM Issues Statement on Digital Copyright Exceptions: A Great Case for Authors' Rights!
STM Response to Science Foundation Ireland's OA Consultation: Critique
Put yourself in the patient's shoes: no embargoes to medical research
Knowledge, now! or, Why We Cannot Afford Embargoes
Please stand against the Canadian DMCA
CLA/ABC Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries
Free Government Pubs, from the BC Legislature Library
Canadian Association of Research Libraries calls for Canadian OA Mandate
Authors Rights Negotiations Research
Open Access Permissions: Research Idea
American Competes Act and Open Access
Hypothesis: decline in author submissions if no self-archiving allowed
Open Access Research Questions
CLA Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries
PubMedCentral Journals: Baseline Data
The Open Access Reserves List
PubMed: Free and Open Access: Limits to Unlimited!
PubMed: More than a Quarter Free
Open Access Publishing Using OJS: How Fast?
Free to Read: Great for Business!
Jim Till on the IRCSET policy
40 new titles added to PubMedCentral in last 60 days!
Creative Commons Licenses for Open Access
Open Doors and Open Minds
Access to knowledge: promoting user access as a central objective of copyright law
Open Access for the Australian Medical Librarian
Open Access Class Syllabus Posted
An Author's Letter to go with the Addendum
EBSCO's Free Database: GreenFILE
Open Notebook Science: Open Access, and Beyond
Issues in Scholarly Communications Class
Jumpstarting the Public Sphere: Information Policy in the 21st Century
Dean Giustini on Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement
Responses to Library and Archives Canada's Canadian Digital Information Strategy
A Celebration of Research and Scholarship at Kwantlen University College
Glen Newton suggests an additional criterion to the definition of open access
More baseline data from PubMed
European Universities Association(EUA) urges universities to develop clear strategies to advance open access
The library as publisher: an emerging norm
JOVE: the Journal of Visualized Experiments
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2008 Edition
Over 400 journals participating in PubMedCentral March 30, 2008
Cancer Literature: 13% Free
Net neutrality in Canada
Canadian urgent action item: demand net neutrality now!
Save money: shelter the homeless
York University Library: Another Canadian Leader in the Open Access Movement
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Official Harvard Citation
Editorial Peer Review: Largely Untested, Effects Uncertain
Neuroopthalmology research: for human health - or publisher profit?
2008 Open Access Class
Open Access: Roles for the Aggregators
Taking the plunge: from print to online open access
American Society of Civil Engineers and Open Access
Hindawi Publishing Charges: Range, Median / Mode, Average
Less than 10% of open access journals in Psychology charge an article processing fee
The Access Gap in British Columbia
High Energy Physics Goes Open Access
2008 Summer Digital Humanities
Library and Archives Canada: Public Responses to Canadian Digital Information Strategy
Create Change Canada
No to Author's Rights? Let your Librarian Know!
civicaccess.ca
The Plagiarist, and Aiming for Obscurity
Aiming for Obscurity: Definitional Post
nowpublishing.com and Authors Advantages
Journals, if you are Authors' Rights Friendly - Let Everyone Know!
Whither white, fair RoMEO?
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Adopts Open Access Mandate
Happy Birthday, BOAI! and, confirmation of the acceleration of growth of DOAJ
Canada Revenue Agency, open access, and guidelines for charitable research
Hilde Colenbrander and an open access cIRcle at UBC
Combining Subscriptions and Open Access
Why I am an open access advocate
Oxford Open: a Model for Transitioning to Open Access
Canadians for Fair Copyright Update
Canada moves towards open goverment
Unanimous OA Recommendations from the European University Association
Kudos to Penn State for Open Access Books Experiment
Students for open access and open textbooks
SCOAP3, Accreditation, and Access to Research Laboratories
LIBR 559L: Issues in Scholarly Communications
RRRESEARCH: UBC Leadership in Open Source Science
Director of Open Access Journals: 4 3/4 Stars (of 5)
NIH and European Research Council OA Mandates
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Dec. 31, 2007 Update
NIH Public Access Mandate Made Law
Francis Ouellette named one of 6 Franklin Awards finalists
Over 500 Open Access Sites
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: 2007 Interim Report and Predictions for 2008
Directory of Open Access Journals: Already the World's Biggest Big Deal?
National open access journal subsidy
DOAJ: 80 new titles in the last 30 days
Open Access and Accessibility for the Print Disabled
Is the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia Asleep?
Open Access: Back to Basics
The Usefulness of OA, or Yet Another Potential Positive Cycle
Pilot Project to Provide Open Access to NRC Publications
Canadian Digital Information Strategy and Open Access
Rethinking Collections and Transitioning to Open Access: First Monday
Open Access as an Unprecedented Public Good: Presentation
The Canadian Library Association congratulates CIHR on its open access policy
Full OA is a reasonable position, plus, compromise takes two!
Would a bold politician speak up for an unprecedented public good?
Opposition to open access continues, while anti-OA coalition attempt implodes
Flipping Journals Subscriptions to Open Access
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 30, 2007 Update
Stephen's Web
Libraries and Public Access to Information: CLA 1994
Access to any or all sources of information; a matter of ethics (CLA 1976)
CLA Commitment to "Open Availability to Information" - from 1987
Open Access Fun Guerilla Activism, or How to Hijack that STM Conference
WIPO Launches New Agenda on IP and Development
From interlibrary loans to institutional repository department: a natural transition
Canadian Journal of Sociology Goes OA
PRISM: Not Ready for Peer Review
60% OA Track Record for Successful Grantees
People's Open Access Education Initiative
UN General Assembly passes a Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, despite Canada's opposition.
Michael Geist: New Research Policy a Victory for Open Access
British Columbia Library Association Congratulates CIHR on Open Access to Research Outputs policy
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Series Links to IJPE posts on the CIHR OA policy.
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Inclusion Criteria
More kudos for CIHR!
Kudos for CIHR Open Access to Research Outputs Policy
DOAJ: Strong Growth, and Understanding the Numbers
Jim Till: Be Openly Accessible or Be Obscure
Canada's CIHR: 31st to Adopt a Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate.
Open Access Policy: Let's Put the Public Good First!
Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Policy on Access to Research Outputs
On PubMedCentral, by PubMedCentral
Heather's peer review rates: from free to $5,000 per article
More on PRISM: what will the academics do?
Save the Millionaires
Dear Senator
A Beautiful Backfire?
LIS Literature and the Gold Road
Open Notebook Science and Malaria
Publishers and "their" articles
PRISM: Latest Anti-OA Lobbying Effort
Open, Digital Scholarly Publishing at Athabasca University Press
Open Access: Quick Stats, Fast Facts
Catalog Record for IJPE
CARL SPARC Author's Addendum Tips
CARL and SPARC offer Canadian authors new tool to widen access to published articles
NIH Public Access Policy: Is the Funding for an Open Access Transition Already There?
E-LIS: the Open Archive for Library and Information Science
Canada: Let's Focus on Sharing
Oxford: Traditional Publisher Illustrates Leadership in Transition to Open Access
A Victory for the Commons: Monsanto Patents Rejected!
Needed: Open Access Open Science
1,000 Journals Using Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Are open access journals ten times more likely to survive?
Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 2007 Update.
Canadian Library Association Moves Open Access
datalibre.ca
Atlantic Provinces Library Association supports Open Access Publishing!
A potential positive cycle: more access, more funds
Does Open Access correlate with quality and recency?
pc4peace and Free Geek
Open Access Class
Open Data for the Layperson
Open Access Policy Update
Free Online Access to Digital Mapping Data
SSHRC Aid to Open Access Journals
Dramatic Growth: March 31, 2007 Update and Open Data Edition
Coming April 24: the IDRC Digital Library
Opening up Research: Start Before the Beginning
European Commission: Update and Reflection
Publishing software, publisher independence, and open access
Polimetrica Publishing Open Access Manifesto
Publisher Best Practices - or Not
University Presses, Open Access, and Reallocation of Funds
Scenarios for paying for OA
Canada: the Time has Come to Prioritize Open Access! (Michael Geist)
Elsevier Revenue to Open Access
Open Access, Scholarly Communications, and the Processing Fee Model
BC Libraries Support DOAJ!
Scholarly Publishing: High Quality at Low Cost
Year-End Investments Towards Open Access
The Ouellette Declaration
The British Columbia Library Association Resolution on Open Access
Stop fighting the inevitable - and free funds for open access!
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL): Canadian Leader in Open Access
Dramatic Growth December 2006 & Predictions 2007
The Newer the Journal, the More Likely it is Open Access
Ulrich's and DOAJ: an idea
Transitioning to Open Access: Beyond Fear of Change
Linda Hutcheon: a Democratized Diffusion of Knowledge
John Willinsky and the Public Knowledge Project
Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement: Budapest
That day has arrived, and Canada must seize it (more on CIHR)
CIHR draft policy: the leadership needed to overcome gridlock
Response to CHRS Consultation on Draft Policy on Access to Research Outputs
Open Access and the Cost of Publishing
Chemists Without Borders Open Chemistry Position Statement
Draft Policy on Access to CIHR-Funded Research October 11, 2006
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 2006 Update
Pre-Submission Peer Review: Transitioning to Open Access
From buying to producing: transitioning to open access
Transitioning to open access
Transitioning to open access series
Dramatic progress in the adoption of OA self-archiving mandates
Economics of Open Access Publishing: Another Look
Dramatic Growth (OAIster): July 20th Brief Update
Dramatic Growth June 2006
Ubiquitous Knowledge: A Vision
Open Access: the Membership Fee Subsidy Model
Heather's Bio on Chemists Without Borders
Defeat the Evil Captain Copyright!
Captain Copyright Demystified
The Financial Folly of Pay-Per-View, for the Funder
FRPAA: some benefits and cost savings for the U.S. taxpayer.
Necessity is
the mother of invention: open access, the developing world, and the cost-efficient solution
Peer Review in the Google Age: Transcript
Open Access: to Leverage the Research Dollar
Open Access: to Help the Helpers
Open Access Archiving Maillist
Open Access and the Copyright Collective
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2006 Update
Open Access: Transformative Change. An Open Letter to the President and Members of the American Chemical Society
Beyond Peer Review: Collaboration
Blogging Courses: English Lit
R & D and Library Spending
Open Access to the Medical Literature
Peer Review, Research Funders, and - When?
Peer Review: Not for the Peers?
Peer Review and Replication: A Tale of Two Experiments
Toward a Vision for Scholarship and Communications
Blogger Lab Notebook
Best blog title so far!
The Value of Style
Peter Suber on Unauthorized Translations
Unauthorized translations: differing views on intellectual property
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Dec. 31, 2005 Update and 2006 Predictions
Open Access Textbooks
Michael Eisen's Open Science Blog
The elusive art of costing (institutional repositories)Dec. 14, 2005
Make internet an election issue Dec. 2005
Without the Risk
Open Access and the Organizational Impact Advantage: An Hypothesis
Scholars, Professionals, and the Value of Knowledge
The Impossible Assignment, and the Research Question
What if?
Royal Society of Chemistry: Position Statement on Open Access
Freedom Under Attack: A Song, A Healing Process, and Intellectual Property Law Nov. 14, 2005
New blog...Announcing OA Librarian Nov. 9, 2005
Canada Telecom Policy: Urgent Action Item Nov. 6, 2005
SSHRC Consultation on Open Access: Response Oct. 30, 2005
Immediate Open Access: Every Step of the Way Oct. 14, 2005
A Delightful Irony Oct. 14, 2005
Until we all have institutional repositories: an idea for the transition Oct. 9, 2005
:: Info Commons.ca :: website and listserv Oct. 5, 2005
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Oct. 5, 2005
Wellcome Trust Mandate in Effect (SSHRC Consultation Oct. 2, 2005
SSHRC Open Access Consultation: Oct. 31 Deadline! Oct. 1, 2005
Open Access: Good for Business! Sept. 28, 2005
Open Access, Funding Agencies, and Incentives Sept. 25, 2005
Usage Statistics as an Economic Factor in Scholarly Communications Sept. 12, 2005
Embracing the Medium 2 Sept. 10, 2005
Open Access: For Maximum Value, Share With All Sept. 5, 2005
Open Access, Terrorism, and the Nonviolent Example Sept. 3, 2005
Open Letter on RCUK Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs Aug. 29, 2005
Embracing the Medium: 1 Aug. 27, 2005
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Revised Update Aug. 20, 2005
The Institutional Repository as a Boom for the Print Disabled Aug. 18, 2005
Open Peer Review: A Model & An Invitation Aug. 15, 2005
Open Access and Peer Review: Time and Cost Savings Aug. 13, 2005
The Institutional Repository, the Author & the Academy Aug. 11, 2005
University of Guyana Library Flood Relief / Open Access Analysis Aug. 7, 2005
An open access model with potential to facilitate global economic stability and equity Aug. 5, 2005
Publisher Best Practices for Self-Archiving Authors: 4.5 Stars for Haworth Press Aug. 5, 2005
Publisher Best Practices for Self-Archiving Authors Aug. 5, 2005
Promoting Open Access Aug. 5, 2005
Is Poetic Economics Catching On? Aug. 5, 2005
Librarians and Open Access Aug. 3, 2005
Our Homes Are Bleeding Digital Collection / Collection numérique Nos foyers saignent Aug. 2, 2005
Mediation as an Intellectual Freedom Issue July 31, 2005
Chemistry and Open Access July 31, 2005
Imaginary Journal of High-End Chemistry July 31, 2005
OA & Collaborative Research and Writing July 30, 2005
About the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics July 30, 2005
In Lieu of Flowers: An Open Letter to the American Association of Cancer Research July 17, 2005
Tip for Publishers: Authors' Final Copy July 12, 2005
Resources & Tips for Publishers
Creative Globalization
Question from SSHRC June 23, 2005
Peer Review
Chemistry and the Public Interest
Changing Roles of Librarians March 18, 2005
This post reflects my personal opinion only and does not represent the opinions or policy of the BC Electronic Library Network or the Simon Fraser University Library.
Happy 2012 Open Access Movement! December 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Open access to save costs for teaching and learning
Is the OJS simple statement of open access the best approach, or should we do away with academic copyright altogether
Why require attribution? A Creative Commons discussion item
Noncommercial means noncommercial: Creative Commons discussion
Journals with good Creative Commons models
Three pictures, one small gift, to everyone, with love
To everyone, with love
Scholarly communication for the 1%
Creative Commons, noncommercial and formats
Wiley annual report 2011: costs down, profits up
Articulating the commons: a leaderful approach
Creative Commons and noncommercial - CC version 4.0 discussion
Education is a public good - not a commercial activity
The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access early year-end edition (2011)
Quality of commercial scholarly publishers: what role for the industry?
Dissension in the Open Access Ranks on CC Licenses and Strategies for Publishers
Beall's list of predatory open access publishers (my comments)
Confirming the Wellcome Trust's predictions about article process fee charges
Sage "choice": a critique
Thesis chapter two: scholarly communication in crisis
High profits for commercial publishers - or jobs for academics? Let's #occupyscholcomm
Open Access Week message from / for the British Columbia Library Association
September 30, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Storing all personal data for "security" purposes: some things to think about
A scholar's notes: illustrating the value of re-use
OpenDOAR exceeds 2,000 repositories listed
Mendeley exceeds 100 million papers!
PMC growth: about one free fulltext per minute
STM submission to European Institute of Innovation and Technology: a critique
Open access, books and the royalty question: a research proposal
Let the competition begin! Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 30, 2011
Elsevier profits and faculty priorities
Mandating sustainability. Would Elsevier survive?
Advocacy strategies for open access to agricultural research
Why scholarship should never be a commodity!
Access Copyright: NOT a member
Open access: small victory over procrastination
Open access: definitions and major initiatives
Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2011
Those ACTIVE open access journals!
To everyone, with love (intended as a more permissions URL for CC licenses)
Three pictures, one small gift to everyone, with love (attempt to dedicate 3 pictures to the public domain)
Scholarly communication for the 1%
Creative commons, noncommercial and formats
Wiley annual report 2011: costs down, profits up
Articulating the commons: a leaderful approach
Creative Commons and noncommercial: CC version 4.0 discussion
Education is a public good - not a commercial activity
The challenges of success: dramatic growth of open access early year-end edition
Quality of commercial scholarly publishing: what role for the industry?
Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for publishers
Beall's list of predatory, open access publishers
Confirming the Wellcome Trust's predictions about open access article processing fees
Sage "choice": a critique
Thesis chapter two: scholarly communication in crisis
High profits for commercial publishers - or jobs for academics? Let's #occupyscholcomm
Open Access Week message (from / for the British Columbia Library Association)
The dramatic growth of open access September 30, 2011
Storing all personal data for "security" purposes - some things to think about
A scholar's notes - illustrating the value of re-use
Full open access to scholarly monographs - suggesting a local library consortial approach
OpenDOAR exceeds 2,000 repositories!
Mendeley exceeds 100 million papers!
PMC growth - about 1 fulltext per minute
Peter Suber and the open access movement
STM submission to European Institute of Innovation & Technology: a critique
Open access, books and the royalty argument: a research proposal
Let the competition begin! Dramatic growth of open access June 30, 2011
Elsevier profits and faculty priorities
Mandating sustainability. Would Elsevier survive?
Advocacy strategies for open access to agricultural research
Why scholarship should never be a commodity!
Access copyright: NOT a member
Open access: small victory over procrastination
Open access: definitions and major initiatives
Dramatic growth of open access March 31, 2011
Those ACTIVE open access journals!
Review of Scholarly Communication for Librarians
NO to google books settlement - hurray for academics, access to knowledge and democracy!
Open thesis: draft introduction
Assessing new open access journals
The path to peace is through hearts and minds
Illustrating of the potential for saving with a global shift to open access
Tetrahedron article processing fee: overpriced. very
Core values of librarianship
Bill C-32 (Canada's Copyright Reform Act: Response from an OA Advocate)
Access Copyright insanity: possible solutions?
Nature Publishing Group and Scientific Reports: getting serious about open access competition
Hindawi 40% growth in submissions in 2010
PLoS ONE: now THE world's largest journal?
2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Dramatic Growth of Open Access brief update: chart showing gold growth
Libraries: is this YOUR free cash? informa (Taylor & Francis) glowing picture for investors (economics 101)
December 11, 2010 early year-end edition
September 30, 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Full open access articles with 70% cost savings for libraries
Wiley open access moves: scholarly societies pushing for open access?
Of downloads and lemmings
Wanted: a don't-be-evil online music store
Open access advocacy for the procrastinator
Worlds of differences between publishers (economics 101)
Cultural Studies: for-profit journals cost up to 10 times more than not-for-profit
LIBER Keynote: The role of the research library in an emerging global public sphere (LIBER keynote)
Open Access for Canada - for Canadian impact
If we don't need to read the research results for a while - why not redirect the research funding?
American Psychological Association claims to pay for peer review. Should we send them a bill?
The dinosaurs roar, or, does the U.S. need an Outmoded Lab Equipment law?
The role of the research library in an emerging global public sphere (LIBER keynote)
Good works (social housing) in progress in Vancouver
Support for open access policy in Denmark
OA mandate at Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2010 (brief version)
Open Access Journals Support in Canada
On the wide disparity in publisher cost-efficiency
Open Access submission to Canada's Digital Economy Consultation
Anti-OA spin on Inside Higher Ed
The latest open access controversy: are we in the age of open access, or just on the verge?
Open access policies in Europe: David Prosser article
The journals of unfunded research
Food for all: letter to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) urging open access
Springer (owner of BMC) did NOT sign the anti-FRPAA letter
Canada's Digital Economy Consultation: help vote up Open Access to Canadian Research
Private sector and long term responsibility for scholarly work? Nonsense!
On behalf of many: division within traditional publishers re anti-FRPAA lobbying
Canada's Digital Economy Consultation: some preliminary thoughts
Over 20% of the world's scholarly journals now open access! (Kudos to DOAJ)
Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use
Elsevier 2009 $2 billion profits could fund worldwide OA at $1,383 per article
Wiley STM: 3rd quarter profits up 18%
Informa (Taylor & Francis etc.): profits up, majority renewing at previous high rates
Concordia University's open access mandate
The direct and indirect benefits of open access for the public
The global scope of the open access movement
DOAJ Media and Communication list: open data / open knowledge
International Communication Association on open access
Another reason why the world needs librarians
WorldCat rights and responsibilites for the OCLC Cooperative: comments
Ithaka Faculty Survey 2009: can a mail-based survey capture faculty leadership in adopting new models of scholarly communication?
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2010 edition
New homepage
U.S. systemic savings with a full shift to OA: $3.4 billion
ACTA. End the secrecy - democracy now!
Freedom for scholarship in the internet age: OCULA spotlight
Google Books - what if authors of new books want in?
New open access fund at SFU library
The scholar's copy
Notes for dramatic growth of open access
Slowing down to protect the incumbents - or speeding up to protect the earth?
ARL ACRL Scholarly Communication Institute webinar series
Google Books settlement: open access to my book chapters, please
arXiv business model development
For subscription journals: calculating open access success, and considering your options
Calculating compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy
Clarification re Health and Social Care in the Community and NIH compliance
Open Content Alliance (OCA) vs. Google Books: OCA as superior network and better fit for an emerging global public sphere
Open and evolving scholarship
Response to STM response to US Scholarly Publishing Roundtable
The peculiar practice of democracy? in America
PubMedCentral Canada up and available for searching
Strong open access growth reported by Hindawi
Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Management
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Dec. 31, 2009 New Year's Eve Edition
Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Features and Technology
U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 11, 2009 early year-end edition
Open access to the public domain
University of Ottawa among North Americans leaders in open access
Open access and open education for development
Virginia Libraries: Review of Scholarly Communication for Librarians
In the works as of November 2009
Will google survive google books? Reflections from a friend
Scholarly communication for librarians: catalogued and in circulation!
Research brief: library savings from full flip to OA
Dramatic growth of open access: September 30, 2009
PLoS article-level metrics: substantial value-add for authors
Mass Digitization: Open Content Alliance is the right approach
Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity: a key step in the transition to OA
Taylor and Francis first half results 2009: academic information revenue up 25%, and, are shareholders more interested in OA than T & F?
Housekeeping: study leave / e-mail address change 2009-10
Scholarly communication class: open educational resources
Please join me for ALCTS webinar September 23
Cost per page for HSS journals varies by 15-fold
Humanities and social sciences: thoughts towards transition to OA
Canadian copyright consultation
Michael Smith Foundation adopts strong OA policy
SCOAP3: a key library leadership opportunity in the transition to open access
Open Access Journals Support in Canada: new research project in planning
The benefits of open collaboration from the start!
Beyond PDF. XML is better.
Corrected URL: open access chapter, Scholarly Communication for Librarians
PubMedCentral Canada partnership announced
The Dramatic Growth of PLoS One: soon-to-be world's largest journal
Beyond PDF. XML is better.
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2009
Two chapters of Scholarly Communication for Librarians are now open access
Enhancing the debate on open access: knowledge is for all, not just researchers
The Open Access imperative and education
WolframAlpha: glimpse of the future
Michael Geist's creative open access initiative!
Heather's April-May 2009 presentations
Vancouver enters the age of the open city
University of Calgary Library Faculty Open Access Mandate
ERIC adds 192,000 free fulltext from its microfiche collection
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Open Access Policy
Open Sesame to the Digital World - an open access school library.
Free access to the Cochrane Library for Canada
Don't leave Canada behind: open letter to Canadian government from Canadian researchers.
Ontario contributes $4.7 million more to lab of Toronto-based open access researcher Aled Edwards
Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2009
Growing Canadian membership in DOAJ!.
Usage-based pricing and open access as a catalyst for change
Open Access Journals: Around the World, and Top OA Journal Countries
Canadian Research Knowledge Network looking for expressions of interest in supporting major OA initiative in physics
Open Access policy development - some thoughts on process
Canada, let's fix the open access policy loophole BEFORE we harmonize.
Towards PubMedCentral Canada: update.
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Supports Open Access Resources.
Two calls for open access from Québec.
Who Knows Where the Next Great Idea will come from? Why open access to the world's knowledge is a great boon in tough times.
Wiley revenues increase 36% in 2008
An Open Net Means Open Opportunity
National Film Board Makes Films Free Online
Will Canada seize the lead in the open access movement in the history books - or cede to the U.S.?
Michael Geist calls on Canadian government to implement open access policies
OpenDOAR Exceeds 1,300!
Scholarly Publishers Recognize the Usefulness of Institutional Repositories
Molecular Biology of the Cell, or Why Open Access by Article Processing Fees Sometimes Just Makes Sense
December 31, 2008 Dramatic Growth of Open Access - Happy New Year, Open Access!
Re: should university presses adopt an OA model?
Dramatic Growth of Open Access Early Annual Edition December 11, 2008
Scroll: Essays on the Design of Electronic Text
Bioline International: Supporting Quality Open Access Publishing in the Developing World
Cost-Free Open Data with Google and Amazon
Drop print to save money, with print-on-demand for those who like print
Scholarly Society Memberships: a Cost-Free Way to Support Scholarly Societies AND Open Access
Essential Efficiencies
Pre-Submission Peer Review to Reduce Journal Costs
Comments on EU Green Paper: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
Who benefits from the University of Calgary Open Access Authors' Fund?
Heather Morrison: Speaker Biography - Open Access and Scholarly Communications
Should university presses adopt an OA model for all of their scholarly books?
The trouble with metrics (for scholarship)
CLA announces new open access interest group
Announcing the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Competing in the open access environment: will the smalls have the advantage?
Springer to acquire BioMedCentral: major milestone in transition to open access.
NIH Compliance Rate Triples So Far With Mandatory Policy!
Open Access Service Charges: Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences
Twice as much gold OA articles in 2008 as in 2006!
Open Access - refining the definition: work versus process
ibelieveinopen.ca
Housekeeping: Dramatic Growth of Open Access Release Dates
PubMedCentral Canada (PMC) Initiative
CANLII - Legal open access database - is the most frequently used electronic resource by Canadian lawyers!
Copyright Transfer: Not Necessarily a Condition for Publication (Taylor & Francis)
Beautiful Butterfly: Quick Lesson in Creative Commons
Sherpa RoMEO: even white is looking very green!
Society for Reproduction and Fertility Free Access: A Good Model
DOAJ over 200,000 searchable articles!
Danielle Dennie and Librarian Activist.Org
Thinking about Prestige, Quality, and Open Access
Meet Pam Ryan
Tracey Lauriault
Meet Hugh McGuire
Epilepsia: Free public access for NIH; charges for Wellcome authors
Wiley Online Open: Why Print-Based Costs?
The American Journal of Transplantation will deposit all articles in PMC!
DOAJ growth rate nearly doubles in the past year
Open Access in Canada: College and Research Libraries News article
Open Access Institutional Memberships: Innovations at PLoS and Hindawi
RSS feeds for mostly-OA/free sites
Elsevier Profits: $1,750 per minute - and growing?
Forthcoming and in the works August 2008
Digital Rights Management: Should it be Legal, and What About Consumer Warnings?
Oxford University Press Deposits NIH-Funded Articles into PMC
IJPE: Open Access - Gratis and Libre
What Authors Want: To Retain Copyright
Copyright remains yours: ALPSP License to Publish, 2000
Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recommends copyright retention!
Kudos to Oxford: Transitioning to Open Access
Noteworthy Dramatic Growth July 2008: PMC and RoMEO
National Research Council OA Mandate begins January 2009
Indian Institutes of Science Director favors open archives approach to OA
Scientific Commons exceeds 20 million items
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: correction to growth rate
Open Access Class 2008: Final Projects
NIH Public Access Policy instructions posted prominently on PubMed home page!
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2008
Three forthcoming OA policies announced at ELPUB
Richard Poynder Interviews Leslie Chan
STM Issues Statement on Digital Copyright Exceptions: A Great Case for Authors' Rights!
STM Response to Science Foundation Ireland's OA Consultation: Critique
Put yourself in the patient's shoes: no embargoes to medical research
Knowledge, now! or, Why We Cannot Afford Embargoes
Please stand against the Canadian DMCA
CLA/ABC Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries
Free Government Pubs, from the BC Legislature Library
Canadian Association of Research Libraries calls for Canadian OA Mandate
Authors Rights Negotiations Research
Open Access Permissions: Research Idea
American Competes Act and Open Access
Hypothesis: decline in author submissions if no self-archiving allowed
Open Access Research Questions
CLA Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries
PubMedCentral Journals: Baseline Data
The Open Access Reserves List
PubMed: Free and Open Access: Limits to Unlimited!
PubMed: More than a Quarter Free
Open Access Publishing Using OJS: How Fast?
Free to Read: Great for Business!
Jim Till on the IRCSET policy
40 new titles added to PubMedCentral in last 60 days!
Creative Commons Licenses for Open Access
Open Doors and Open Minds
Access to knowledge: promoting user access as a central objective of copyright law
Open Access for the Australian Medical Librarian
Open Access Class Syllabus Posted
An Author's Letter to go with the Addendum
EBSCO's Free Database: GreenFILE
Open Notebook Science: Open Access, and Beyond
Issues in Scholarly Communications Class
Jumpstarting the Public Sphere: Information Policy in the 21st Century
Dean Giustini on Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement
Responses to Library and Archives Canada's Canadian Digital Information Strategy
A Celebration of Research and Scholarship at Kwantlen University College
Glen Newton suggests an additional criterion to the definition of open access
More baseline data from PubMed
European Universities Association(EUA) urges universities to develop clear strategies to advance open access
The library as publisher: an emerging norm
JOVE: the Journal of Visualized Experiments
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31, 2008 Edition
Over 400 journals participating in PubMedCentral March 30, 2008
Cancer Literature: 13% Free
Net neutrality in Canada
Canadian urgent action item: demand net neutrality now!
Save money: shelter the homeless
York University Library: Another Canadian Leader in the Open Access Movement
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Official Harvard Citation
Editorial Peer Review: Largely Untested, Effects Uncertain
Neuroopthalmology research: for human health - or publisher profit?
2008 Open Access Class
Open Access: Roles for the Aggregators
Taking the plunge: from print to online open access
American Society of Civil Engineers and Open Access
Hindawi Publishing Charges: Range, Median / Mode, Average
Less than 10% of open access journals in Psychology charge an article processing fee
The Access Gap in British Columbia
High Energy Physics Goes Open Access
2008 Summer Digital Humanities
Library and Archives Canada: Public Responses to Canadian Digital Information Strategy
Create Change Canada
No to Author's Rights? Let your Librarian Know!
civicaccess.ca
The Plagiarist, and Aiming for Obscurity
Aiming for Obscurity: Definitional Post
nowpublishing.com and Authors Advantages
Journals, if you are Authors' Rights Friendly - Let Everyone Know!
Whither white, fair RoMEO?
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Adopts Open Access Mandate
Happy Birthday, BOAI! and, confirmation of the acceleration of growth of DOAJ
Canada Revenue Agency, open access, and guidelines for charitable research
Hilde Colenbrander and an open access cIRcle at UBC
Combining Subscriptions and Open Access
Why I am an open access advocate
Oxford Open: a Model for Transitioning to Open Access
Canadians for Fair Copyright Update
Canada moves towards open goverment
Unanimous OA Recommendations from the European University Association
Kudos to Penn State for Open Access Books Experiment
Students for open access and open textbooks
SCOAP3, Accreditation, and Access to Research Laboratories
LIBR 559L: Issues in Scholarly Communications
RRRESEARCH: UBC Leadership in Open Source Science
Director of Open Access Journals: 4 3/4 Stars (of 5)
NIH and European Research Council OA Mandates
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Dec. 31, 2007 Update
NIH Public Access Mandate Made Law
Francis Ouellette named one of 6 Franklin Awards finalists
Over 500 Open Access Sites
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: 2007 Interim Report and Predictions for 2008
Directory of Open Access Journals: Already the World's Biggest Big Deal?
National open access journal subsidy
DOAJ: 80 new titles in the last 30 days
Open Access and Accessibility for the Print Disabled
Is the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia Asleep?
Open Access: Back to Basics
The Usefulness of OA, or Yet Another Potential Positive Cycle
Pilot Project to Provide Open Access to NRC Publications
Canadian Digital Information Strategy and Open Access
Rethinking Collections and Transitioning to Open Access: First Monday
Open Access as an Unprecedented Public Good: Presentation
The Canadian Library Association congratulates CIHR on its open access policy
Full OA is a reasonable position, plus, compromise takes two!
Would a bold politician speak up for an unprecedented public good?
Opposition to open access continues, while anti-OA coalition attempt implodes
Flipping Journals Subscriptions to Open Access
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 30, 2007 Update
Stephen's Web
Libraries and Public Access to Information: CLA 1994
Access to any or all sources of information; a matter of ethics (CLA 1976)
CLA Commitment to "Open Availability to Information" - from 1987
Open Access Fun Guerilla Activism, or How to Hijack that STM Conference
WIPO Launches New Agenda on IP and Development
From interlibrary loans to institutional repository department: a natural transition
Canadian Journal of Sociology Goes OA
PRISM: Not Ready for Peer Review
60% OA Track Record for Successful Grantees
People's Open Access Education Initiative
UN General Assembly passes a Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, despite Canada's opposition.
Michael Geist: New Research Policy a Victory for Open Access
British Columbia Library Association Congratulates CIHR on Open Access to Research Outputs policy
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Series Links to IJPE posts on the CIHR OA policy.
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Inclusion Criteria
More kudos for CIHR!
Kudos for CIHR Open Access to Research Outputs Policy
DOAJ: Strong Growth, and Understanding the Numbers
Jim Till: Be Openly Accessible or Be Obscure
Canada's CIHR: 31st to Adopt a Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate.
Open Access Policy: Let's Put the Public Good First!
Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Policy on Access to Research Outputs
On PubMedCentral, by PubMedCentral
Heather's peer review rates: from free to $5,000 per article
More on PRISM: what will the academics do?
Save the Millionaires
Dear Senator
A Beautiful Backfire?
LIS Literature and the Gold Road
Open Notebook Science and Malaria
Publishers and "their" articles
PRISM: Latest Anti-OA Lobbying Effort
Open, Digital Scholarly Publishing at Athabasca University Press
Open Access: Quick Stats, Fast Facts
Catalog Record for IJPE
CARL SPARC Author's Addendum Tips
CARL and SPARC offer Canadian authors new tool to widen access to published articles
NIH Public Access Policy: Is the Funding for an Open Access Transition Already There?
E-LIS: the Open Archive for Library and Information Science
Canada: Let's Focus on Sharing
Oxford: Traditional Publisher Illustrates Leadership in Transition to Open Access
A Victory for the Commons: Monsanto Patents Rejected!
Needed: Open Access Open Science
1,000 Journals Using Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Are open access journals ten times more likely to survive?
Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 2007 Update.
Canadian Library Association Moves Open Access
datalibre.ca
Atlantic Provinces Library Association supports Open Access Publishing!
A potential positive cycle: more access, more funds
Does Open Access correlate with quality and recency?
pc4peace and Free Geek
Open Access Class
Open Data for the Layperson
Open Access Policy Update
Free Online Access to Digital Mapping Data
SSHRC Aid to Open Access Journals
Dramatic Growth: March 31, 2007 Update and Open Data Edition
Coming April 24: the IDRC Digital Library
Opening up Research: Start Before the Beginning
European Commission: Update and Reflection
Publishing software, publisher independence, and open access
Polimetrica Publishing Open Access Manifesto
Publisher Best Practices - or Not
University Presses, Open Access, and Reallocation of Funds
Scenarios for paying for OA
Canada: the Time has Come to Prioritize Open Access! (Michael Geist)
Elsevier Revenue to Open Access
Open Access, Scholarly Communications, and the Processing Fee Model
BC Libraries Support DOAJ!
Scholarly Publishing: High Quality at Low Cost
Year-End Investments Towards Open Access
The Ouellette Declaration
The British Columbia Library Association Resolution on Open Access
Stop fighting the inevitable - and free funds for open access!
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL): Canadian Leader in Open Access
Dramatic Growth December 2006 & Predictions 2007
The Newer the Journal, the More Likely it is Open Access
Ulrich's and DOAJ: an idea
Transitioning to Open Access: Beyond Fear of Change
Linda Hutcheon: a Democratized Diffusion of Knowledge
John Willinsky and the Public Knowledge Project
Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement: Budapest
That day has arrived, and Canada must seize it (more on CIHR)
CIHR draft policy: the leadership needed to overcome gridlock
Response to CHRS Consultation on Draft Policy on Access to Research Outputs
Open Access and the Cost of Publishing
Chemists Without Borders Open Chemistry Position Statement
Draft Policy on Access to CIHR-Funded Research October 11, 2006
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 2006 Update
Pre-Submission Peer Review: Transitioning to Open Access
From buying to producing: transitioning to open access
Transitioning to open access
Transitioning to open access series
Dramatic progress in the adoption of OA self-archiving mandates
Economics of Open Access Publishing: Another Look
Dramatic Growth (OAIster): July 20th Brief Update
Dramatic Growth June 2006
Ubiquitous Knowledge: A Vision
Open Access: the Membership Fee Subsidy Model
Heather's Bio on Chemists Without Borders
Defeat the Evil Captain Copyright!
Captain Copyright Demystified
The Financial Folly of Pay-Per-View, for the Funder
FRPAA: some benefits and cost savings for the U.S. taxpayer.
Necessity is
the mother of invention: open access, the developing world, and the cost-efficient solution
Peer Review in the Google Age: Transcript
Open Access: to Leverage the Research Dollar
Open Access: to Help the Helpers
Open Access Archiving Maillist
Open Access and the Copyright Collective
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2006 Update
Open Access: Transformative Change. An Open Letter to the President and Members of the American Chemical Society
Beyond Peer Review: Collaboration
Blogging Courses: English Lit
R & D and Library Spending
Open Access to the Medical Literature
Peer Review, Research Funders, and - When?
Peer Review: Not for the Peers?
Peer Review and Replication: A Tale of Two Experiments
Toward a Vision for Scholarship and Communications
Blogger Lab Notebook
Best blog title so far!
The Value of Style
Peter Suber on Unauthorized Translations
Unauthorized translations: differing views on intellectual property
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Dec. 31, 2005 Update and 2006 Predictions
Open Access Textbooks
Michael Eisen's Open Science Blog
The elusive art of costing (institutional repositories)Dec. 14, 2005
Make internet an election issue Dec. 2005
Without the Risk
Open Access and the Organizational Impact Advantage: An Hypothesis
Scholars, Professionals, and the Value of Knowledge
The Impossible Assignment, and the Research Question
What if?
Royal Society of Chemistry: Position Statement on Open Access
Freedom Under Attack: A Song, A Healing Process, and Intellectual Property Law Nov. 14, 2005
New blog...Announcing OA Librarian Nov. 9, 2005
Canada Telecom Policy: Urgent Action Item Nov. 6, 2005
SSHRC Consultation on Open Access: Response Oct. 30, 2005
Immediate Open Access: Every Step of the Way Oct. 14, 2005
A Delightful Irony Oct. 14, 2005
Until we all have institutional repositories: an idea for the transition Oct. 9, 2005
:: Info Commons.ca :: website and listserv Oct. 5, 2005
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Oct. 5, 2005
Wellcome Trust Mandate in Effect (SSHRC Consultation Oct. 2, 2005
SSHRC Open Access Consultation: Oct. 31 Deadline! Oct. 1, 2005
Open Access: Good for Business! Sept. 28, 2005
Open Access, Funding Agencies, and Incentives Sept. 25, 2005
Usage Statistics as an Economic Factor in Scholarly Communications Sept. 12, 2005
Embracing the Medium 2 Sept. 10, 2005
Open Access: For Maximum Value, Share With All Sept. 5, 2005
Open Access, Terrorism, and the Nonviolent Example Sept. 3, 2005
Open Letter on RCUK Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs Aug. 29, 2005
Embracing the Medium: 1 Aug. 27, 2005
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Revised Update Aug. 20, 2005
The Institutional Repository as a Boom for the Print Disabled Aug. 18, 2005
Open Peer Review: A Model & An Invitation Aug. 15, 2005
Open Access and Peer Review: Time and Cost Savings Aug. 13, 2005
The Institutional Repository, the Author & the Academy Aug. 11, 2005
University of Guyana Library Flood Relief / Open Access Analysis Aug. 7, 2005
An open access model with potential to facilitate global economic stability and equity Aug. 5, 2005
Publisher Best Practices for Self-Archiving Authors: 4.5 Stars for Haworth Press Aug. 5, 2005
Publisher Best Practices for Self-Archiving Authors Aug. 5, 2005
Promoting Open Access Aug. 5, 2005
Is Poetic Economics Catching On? Aug. 5, 2005
Librarians and Open Access Aug. 3, 2005
Our Homes Are Bleeding Digital Collection / Collection numérique Nos foyers saignent Aug. 2, 2005
Mediation as an Intellectual Freedom Issue July 31, 2005
Chemistry and Open Access July 31, 2005
Imaginary Journal of High-End Chemistry July 31, 2005
OA & Collaborative Research and Writing July 30, 2005
About the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics July 30, 2005
In Lieu of Flowers: An Open Letter to the American Association of Cancer Research July 17, 2005
Tip for Publishers: Authors' Final Copy July 12, 2005
Resources & Tips for Publishers
Creative Globalization
Question from SSHRC June 23, 2005
Peer Review
Chemistry and the Public Interest
Changing Roles of Librarians March 18, 2005
This post reflects my personal opinion only and does not represent the opinions or policy of the BC Electronic Library Network or the Simon Fraser University Library.
