Sphere

"Grasping What is Already Within Immediate Reach: Universal Open Access Mandates"

2009-10-06T17:59:00.001+01:00

Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE)

2009-09-15T08:57:00.001+01:00

Publicada no OA Librarian:
"Five major US universities (Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley) have announced that they have joined together in a compact for Open Access publication. Each university commits "to the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication fees for open-access journal articles written by its faculty for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds". Other universities are being asked to sign on to the compact".

Ler mais.

Pfizer assina acordo para cobrir as despesas de publicação dos artigos dos seus investigadores

2009-05-24T10:38:00.002+01:00

Novo título em OA: "Etudes de Communication"

2009-05-05T14:31:00.000+01:00

Peter Suber foi nomeado Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

2009-05-04T08:54:00.000+01:00

Comunidade Autónoma de Madrid adere ao auto-arquivo

2009-03-28T09:42:00.001Z

"9. De conformidad con la política de fomento del acceso abierto a los resultados de la investigación científica impulsada por la Comunidad de Madrid, que se alinea con las políticas y recomendaciones realizadas al respecto por la Unión Europea, los investigadores beneficiarios del programa *deberán* facilitar el acceso abierto a los resultados de su investigación en el repositorio institucional disponible a tal efecto en su universidad, organismo público de investigación y/o en el repositorio independiente de la Comunidad de Madrid, en el que deberán depositar una copia del artículo publicado o la versión final del mismo, aceptada para su publicación, junto con los documentos de trabajo, los resultados de los experimentos, etcétera, en un plazo no superior a seis meses para las áreas de tecnologías y biociencias y de doce meses para las áreas de ciencias sociales y humanidades desde el momento de publicación del artículo.

“ORDEN 679/2009, de 19 de febrero, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras de ayudas a programas de actividades de I + D entre grupos de investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid y convocatoria en tecnologías cofinanciada con Fondo Social Europeo”

[Enviado por Alicia López Medina e reenviado por Eloy Rodrigues]

MIT adopta política de auto-arquivo

2009-03-22T07:42:00.002Z

"MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy

Passed by Unanimous of the Faculty, March 18, 2009

The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written notification by the author, who informs MIT of the reason.

To assist the Institute in distributing the scholarly articles, as of the date of publication, each Faculty member will make available an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article at no charge to a designated representative of the Provost's Office in appropriate formats (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office.

The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository. The Office of the Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Committee on the Library System will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty.

The policy is to take effect immediately; it will be reviewed after five years by the Faculty Policy Committee, with a report presented to the Faculty.

The Faculty calls upon the Faculty Committee on the Library System to develop and monitor a plan for a service or mechanism that would render compliance with the policy as convenient for the faculty as possible".

Enviado por Stevan Harnad

RCAAP

2008-12-30T19:13:00.000Z

"O portal RCAAP tem como objectivo a recolha, agregação e indexação dos conteúdos científicos em acesso aberto (ou acesso livre) existentes nos repositórios institucionais das entidades nacionais de ensino superior, e outras organizações de I&D.

O portal RCAAP constitui-se como um ponto único de pesquisa, descoberta, localização e acesso a milhares de documentos de carácter científico e académico, nomeadamente artigos de revistas científicas, comunicações a conferências, teses e dissertações, distribuídos por inúmeros repositórios portugueses".

BIBL Index

2008-12-30T19:10:00.001Z

"The ultimate goal of this site is to enable the identification of biblical citations of all Jewish and Christian literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages".

Lançamento da Europeana

2008-11-22T12:10:00.004Z

O êxito do lançamento da Europeana, deixou o site temporariamente indisponível.
Para ver o vídeo de apresentação aponte para aqui.

Lançamento da "The Global Library of Women's Medicine"

2008-11-22T11:53:00.006Z

Reúne material de extrema qualidade, sujeito a 'peer review'.

Mais um título da BioMed Central: Italian Journal of Pediatrics

2008-11-18T13:19:00.000Z

Direitos de autor

2008-10-28T12:09:00.002Z

Mais um documento que visa esclarecer sobre os aspectos fundamentais a ter em conta na publicação de artigos científicos.

Mais um título da BioMed Central: Epigenetics & Chromatin

2008-10-27T18:09:00.000Z

"Title: Epigenetics & Chromatin
Editor(s)-in-chief: Frank Grosveld, Steven Henikoff
Abbreviation: Epigenetics & Chromatin
ISSN: 1756-8935
URL: http://www.epigeneticsandchromatin.com/home

This journal aims to understand how gene and chromosomal elements are regulated and their activities maintained during cell division, differentiation and environmental alteration. Epigenetic research is concerned with heritable changes that do not change DNA sequence, but rather involve stable modifications of chromatin, DNA or protein conformation. Epigenetics is a broad area of research that is important for understanding the basic processes of cellular life, and as such has implications for a wide range of disciplines. The field encompasses studies that use model systems to discover and investigate epigenetic mechanisms, as well as studies aimed at combating diseases that involve epigenetic processes. The current articles are in their provisional PDF format, but the full-text and final PDF versions will be available shortly".

Reenvio de Peter Suber

Universidade de Glasgow reforça posição relativamente ao OA

2008-10-11T10:15:00.001+01:00

"The University of Glasgow is proud to announce a new Publications Policy which will require authors to deposit the full text of peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings in the University's institutional repository Enlighten where publisher agreements permit this.

The University has been at the forefront of repository developments since 2002 when the internationally recognised DAEDALUS Project, funded by JISC, was founded. Glasgow is an internationally renowned research intensive University producing thousands of research publications each year. In joining major institutions and funding bodies worldwide the University recognises the importance of free and unrestricted access to scholarly literature in the furtherance of research; and the importance to researchers of maximising the impact of their research across the world.

Professor Steven Beaumont, OBE CEng FRSE Vice-Principal Research and Enterprise said 'The University of Glasgow generates over 3,000 research papers per year. Since we began to put these into Enlighten on a voluntary basis there have been over 1 million downloads. Enlighten really does help the University to showcase its research and to increase the impact of that it has on society. This new policy will make that impact even greater. I very much appreciate the support of Senate in adopting this move.'

The policy came into effect at the beginning of the 2008/2009 academic year".

[Reenvio de Peter Suber]

Prémio Nobel da Física 2008

2008-10-09T07:15:00.002+01:00

Estão disponíveis três dos artigos que descrevem o trabalho premiado com o prémio Novel do Prof. Y. Nambu:

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v4/i7/p380_1
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v122/i1/p345_1
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v124/i1/p246_1

[Reenvio da American Physical Society, via LibLicense. --Peter Suber.]

Espresso Book Machine da On Demand Books na biblioteca da Universidade de Michigan

2008-09-22T10:33:00.001+01:00

Na biblioteca da Universidade de Michigan foi instalada uma impressora de livros a pedido que pode fornecer livros digitalizados da colecção da biblioteca ou da Open Content Alliance entre outras fontes. É a primeira biblioteca a instalar uma impressora destas.

A Espresso Book Machine, da On Demand Books de Nova Iorque, produz livros encadernados de qualidade a uma média de 10 dólares o título e foi considerada pela Time Magazine como a melhor invenção de 2007.

"This is a significant moment in the history of book publishing and distribution," said Paul Courant, dean of libraries at U-M. "As a library, we're stepping beyond the limits of physical space," he said. "Now, we can produce affordable printed copies of rare and hard to find books. It's a great step toward the democratization of information, getting information to readers when and where they need it."

SAGE-Hindawi lançaram novo título em OA: Dental Biomechaniscs

2008-09-16T11:16:00.001+01:00

"The Journal of Dental Biomechanics will provide the first peer-reviewed
forum dedicated to the study of biomechanics as it relates to dentistry.
A growing area of study, it will discuss a wide array of applications
covering the vast majority of routine dental practices. It will also
cover a significant field of research within engineering and biomedicine
in general.

The journal will focus on tissue and material biomechanics, with special
emphasis on the mechanical properties of hard and soft tissue and the
analysis of response to loading of alloys, polymer and ceramics. JDB
will be of interest to health care professionals actively involved in:
* enamel and dentin response to loading following treatment
* periodontal ligament mechanics (healthy and diseased)
* lip response to stress from dentition or dentures
* biomechanics of the TMJ
* bone loading and remodeling in orthodontics and implantology"

Professional Engineering Publishing Launches Engineering Conferences Online

2008-09-05T18:12:00.000+01:00

"Professional Engineering Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (www.imeche.org), has launched Engineering Conferences Online (ECO), a new online publishing service for conference organizers. ECO (http://eco.pepublishing.com) provides conference organizers with a new way of disseminating important engineering research that would normally be very difficult or impossible to locate in traditional book or CD formats. Papers in ECO will usually be available free of charge on an open access basis and will be fully referenced using DOIs.

ECO has been designed specifically to meet the demands of hosting conference proceedings online. Conferences on ECO feature further information about each conference including links to the conference website, event location, and event date. For the purposes of ECO a new website architecture has been created to ensure that the service was designed specifically for conferences rather than replicating the structure of an electronic journal. ECO plans to forge new partnerships with conference organizers that will give their content a much wider readership in the future"

Reenvio de Gerry McKiernan

RoMEO inclui mais de 400 políticas editoriais acerca do auto-arquivo

2008-07-25T08:43:00.002+01:00

Why is RoMEO important?
If an academic author wants to put their research articles on-line, they
are faced with an increasingly complex situation. Evidence shows that
citations to articles made openly accessible in this way are taken up
and cited more often than research that is simply published in journals.
Also some funding agencies require open access archiving for their
research, to increase the use of the information generated.

However, some publishers prohibit authors from using their own articles
in this way. Others allow it, but only under certain conditions, while
others are quite happy for authors to show their work in this way.

Authors can be left confused: RoMEO helps to clarify the situation.

What does RoMEO give users?

The RoMEO service, provided by the award winning SHERPA Partnership*,
uses a simple colour-code to classify policies and inform authors of
what can be done with their articles, and offers users the ability to:

* View summaries of publishers' copyright policies in relation to
self-archiving
* View if publisher policies comply with funding regulations, as
some publishers are too restrictive and cannot be used to publish funded
research
* To search journal and publisher information by Journal Title,
Publisher Name and ISSN

[Reenvio de Peter Suber a partir da JISC-Repositories list]

Plataforma de auto-aprendizagem da UNESCO

2008-07-18T14:42:00.003+01:00

Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: A Guide for Authors

2008-07-02T09:09:00.002+01:00

Um guia sobre o modo como os autores podem tornar o seu trabalho acessível aos seus pares e todos os interessados, incluindo aconselhamento sobre o copyright.

Estudo Geral

2008-06-30T17:46:00.004+01:00

A Universidade de Coimbra inaugurou, hoje, o repositório que reunirá a sua produção científica. Organizado, à maneira de outros, em comunidades responsáveis pelos documentos incluídos nas colecções, constitui mais um pilar da ciência produzida em Portugal.

ScieCom Info

2008-05-13T10:20:00.003+01:00

Uma revista dedicada à discussão o acesso livre à informação nos países nórdicos e do báltico. Neste número:

Open Access in Denmark
Bertil Dorch, Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard

Open Access in the Baltic countries
Meile Kretaviciene

Promoting Open Access in Finland - The OA-JES Project
Turid Hedlund, Claus Montonen

Open Access in Iceland, State-of-the-art report
Solveig Thorsteinsdottir

Open Access in Norway - Where are we and where are we going?
Jan Erik Frantsvåg

Open Access in Sweden, recent developments
Ingegerd Rabow

Sabinet Full Open Access Journal Collection - Beta Release

2008-05-12T15:28:00.000+01:00

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais

2008-05-10T10:56:00.001+01:00

Está disponível em regime de acesso livre do nº 1(1978) ao nº 76(2006).

Sobre o copyright e a comunicação científica pelo SURF

2008-05-09T10:29:00.001+01:00

Nova revista em OA: Journal of e-Media Studies

2008-05-09T09:17:00.005+01:00

College & Research Libraries liberta preprints

2008-05-09T09:15:00.000+01:00

Títulos em OA publicados pela Open Humanities Press (OHP)

2008-05-09T08:43:00.002+01:00

Cosmos and History

Culture Machine

Fibreculture

Film-Philosophy

International Journal of Zizrk Studies

Parrhesia

Vectors

Directorio de OA (Wiki)

2008-05-09T08:01:00.002+01:00

Open Doors and Open Minds / SPARC, Science Commons Paper

2008-05-09T07:41:00.001+01:00

Érudit, um novo site dos recursos em linha de universidades canadianas

2008-04-30T16:29:00.005+01:00

“Érudit is based on the pooling of resources of Quebec universities,” says Guylaine Beaudry, director of the digital publishing centre of the Université de Montréal and executive director of the Érudit consortium. “We have gathered in a single information system articles, theses, symposium proceedings, and other types of documents that can be cross-referenced together or searched separately. In addition, we were able to digitize and make available certain scholarly journals of which no university possessed the complete collection. Thanks to digital technology, we were able to reassemble these collections while increasing their dissemination.”

Reenvio de Peter Suber

Wikiworld: Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media

2008-04-07T18:40:00.002+01:00

Para os autores deste novo livro, a abertura ao conhecimento para todos é fundamental.

Author's Rights

2008-03-26T19:02:00.002Z

Nova revista da BioMed Central: Molecular Cytogenetics

2008-03-26T18:57:00.001Z

Texas Digital Library Repository (TDL)

2008-03-12T08:54:00.003Z

O repositório da TDL contém materiais de três dos seus quatro membros fundadores(Universidade do Texas em College Station, Universidade do Texas Tech em Lubbock e a Universidade do Texas em Austin).

O OJS é o software que sustenta o "Journal of Digital Information" publicado pela Universidade do Texas A&M.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)

2008-03-04T11:41:00.000Z

"OAPEN is a project in Open Access publishing for humanities monographs. The Open Access movement has developed rapidly in the sciences and in journal publishing. The consortium of University-based academic publishers who make up OAPEN believe that the time is ripe to fully explore the possibilities of Open Access in the humanities and social sciences".

Nova versão do CiteSeer [alpha]

2008-03-04T11:37:00.001Z

Faculdade de Harvard vota a favor do acesso livre

2008-02-13T16:56:00.001Z

[mensagem de Dan Hazen reenviada por Karla Hann]

"The Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. In legal terms, the permission granted by each Faculty member is a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Dean or the Dean's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written request by a Faculty member explaining the need.

"To assist the University in distributing the articles, each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the final version of the article at no charge to the appropriate representative of the Provost's Office in an appropriate format (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office. The Provost's Office may make the article available to the public in an open-access repository.

"The Office of the Dean will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty from time to time. The policy will be reviewed after three years and a report presented to the Faculty."

Adenda para a manutenção do copyright

2008-02-13T16:47:00.001Z

"The SCAE is intended for authors who publish in a traditional, subscription-based journal yet still wish to make a copy of their article available on the Internet for download without most copyright and financial restrictions.

Using a simple Web form, authors choose the rights they want to retain and enter basic information like the name of the publisher and the title of the article. The Addendum Engine then generates a completed PDF copy of a one-page standard addendum allowing them to retain rights over the work that would otherwise be wholly forfeited.

The addenda each - at a minimum - enable authors to make their peer-reviewed articles available in an online repository and allow the material to be used in the author’s own works. After choosing and printing, authors simply attach the addendum to the copyright transfer agreement they submit to the publisher".

A Biblioteca Digital da Universidade de Coimbra

2008-02-06T14:36:00.000Z

Publicado na Revista "Rua Larga" da Reitoria da Universidade de Coimbra, nº 19 (2008), ps. 18-20

A Universidade de Coimbra, detentora de um vasto e rico espólio bibliográfico e documental, tem em curso a digitalização de uma parte importante dele, permitindo o acesso de todo o lado aos respectivos conteúdos. Dois projectos apoiados com fundos de Plano Operacional do Ministério da Cultura (Biblioteca Geral Digital e Biblioteca Joanina Virtual ), estão em fase de conclusão. Também as Bibliotecas da Faculdade de Direito e do Departamento de Botânica da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia iniciaram a digitalização dos seus fundos antigos. Para prosseguir o trabalho anterior e aumentar a visibilidade da Universidade na Internet, a Reitoria criou recentemente um projecto conducente à Biblioteca Digital da Universidade de Coimbra, que é numa primeira fase um trabalho de colaboração entre as Bibliotecas Geral, da Faculdade de Direito e da Faculdade de Letras gerido pelo Serviço Integrado de Bibliotecas da Universidade de Coimbra. Numa segunda fase do projecto haverá inclusão de bibliografia de outros sectores da Universidade.

O objectivo do projecto Biblioteca Geral Digital era a digitalização, tratamento técnico e afixação de cerca de 58.800 imagens, deixando ainda cerca de 50.000 imagens para afixar na Internet em fase pós-projecto (perfazendo o total de cerca de 600 obras). Não se tratava apenas de criar uma biblioteca digital, mas também de criar “know how” na área, criando as rotinas necessárias para o desenvolvimento de uma biblioteca virtual. Foi adquirido equipamento de preservação digital, constituído por um conjunto servidores que asseguram adequada manutenção das imagens. A Biblioteca Geral proporcionou a realização de acções de formação, que foram frequentadas por técnicos superiores da equipa do projecto e por funcionários de outras bibliotecas.

A parte mais inovadora do projecto é a criação de uma plataforma que permita a pesquisa dos Catálogos de Manuscritos e de Miscelâneas da Biblioteca Geral. Para isso, os catálogos impressos foram submetidos a um processo de reconhecimento óptico de caracteres, que foi enriquecido por duas operações: a etiquetagem manual de autores, títulos, datas, locais, etc. e a sua indexação automática. Isso vai permitir a pesquisa no texto dos catálogos não só por palavras-chave (como no Google) mas também por cada um dos elementos indicados. Trata-se de um trabalho inovador a nível nacional que, além do mais, está bem articulado com o sistema Millennium que serve todas as bibliotecas da Universidade de Coimbra.

Por outro lado, está a terminar a construção da Biblioteca Joanina Virtual, que visa criar um sítio e um DVD com um ambiente virtual daquela biblioteca, enriquecendo a candidatura em curso da Universidade a Património Mundial da Humanidade. Esse instrumento permitirá uma melhor divulgação de um local simbólico do Paço das Escolas e do extraordinário património que ele alberga. O sítio e o DVD proporcionarão a visualização integral de 21 obras das mais raras da Biblioteca Geral, o que implicou a digitalização e tratamento de 9507 imagens. Foram produzidas mais 17.852 imagens para integrar numa fase pós-projecto.

As obras escolhidas no conjunto dos dois projectos foram os incunábulos que não existiam em mais nenhuma biblioteca portuguesa (123 obras), toda a tipografia coimbrã do século XVI (108 obras) e parte da do século XVII (24 obras), impressos musicais (50 obras), alguns álbuns de Piranesi, todos os códices iluminados, as plantas pombalinas e a maioria dos manuscritos científicos, alguns literários e alguns musicais. Entre as publicações periódicas, sobretudo jornais antigos de Coimbra, estão 47 títulos completos. Exemplos de documentos digitalizados são várias bíblias latinas do século XIII manuscritas, a Bíblia de Abravanel (bíblia hebraica do século XV), a “Nova Astronomia…” de Cristóvão Borri, a “Discrittione et historia de l' Isole Canarie...” (um manuscrito ilustrado) de Leonardo Torriani, a “Carta portulano” de Diogo Homem (carta do século XVI) e ainda algumas primeiras edições que são marcos da cultura portuguesa: a “Peregrinação” (1614), o “Só” (1892), a “Mensagem” (1934), etc. A estes recursos digitais acrescem outros, que tinham sido produzidos antes (como a edição original de “Os Lusíadas”) e que foram unidas num quadro comum. Os dois projectos guiaram-se sempre pelo princípio da boa colaboração institucional, nomeadamente com a Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, não repetindo obras já digitalizadas.

Está a decorrer o concurso da Biblioteca Digital da Universidade de Coimbra, que permitirá, além da aquisição de equipamento adicional, adicionar a curto prazo aos resultados dos dois projectos referidos mais 120 000 imagens. A sinergia entre várias bibliotecas, que é possível mediante a estreita cooperação entre os bibliotecários envolvidos, permitirá economizar recursos e apresentar resultados de um modo padronizado.

Ver http://web.bg.uc.pt/BibliotecaDigital

Carlos Fiolhais (Director da Biblioteca Geral e do Serviço Integrado de Bibliotecas
da Universidade de Coimbra)

2008-02-01T10:58:00.000Z

Posição da European University Association (EUA)

2008-02-01T09:31:00.000Z

[Resumo de Peter Suber]

As universidades europeias devem:

launch OAI-compliant institutional repositories (A2)
adopt OA mandates for their research output (A3)
educate faculty about copyright and encourage the removal of permission barriers at least for users in the author's institution (A4)
consider paying publication fees for faculty who publish in fee-based OA journals (A5)
work with public funding agencies with OA mandates to encourage deposit in institutional repositories (B1)
educate university rectors about the importance of OA (B2)
support OA mandates for publicly-funded research in the EU (C1)

The EUA represents 791 universities in 46 countries throughout Europe. These unanimous recommendations should carry great weight with this wide range of institutions.
The recommendations are not EU-specific and should also carry weight with universities and university associations worldwide. While many university associations have already made public statements in support of OA, I hope they will take note of these strong recommendations, and the strong support for them, and use this opportunity to tighten and reiterate their own support for OA and their own specific recommendations to members.
Note how the EUA recommendations dovetail with the recent signs that rectors and provosts are organizing (in South America, Europe, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, and the US) to promote OA mandates at universities and public funding agencies.

Base de dados de imagens radiológicas

2008-01-30T15:12:00.000Z

A BioMed Central contribuiu com mais de 170 títulos para esta base de dados, o que permitu adicionar mais de 4.200 imagens à colecção da GoldMiner(tm): mais de 170.000 imagens de cerca de 225 títulos.

Science in School

2008-01-29T13:31:00.001Z

Títulos em OA publicados pela Bentham Science Publishers

2008-01-18T08:37:00.000Z

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
	•	The Open Acoustics Journal
	•	The Open Addiction Journal
	•	The Open Aerospace Engineering Journal
	•	The Open Aging Journal
	•	The Open Agriculture Journal
	•	The Open AIDS Journal
	•	The Open Allergy Journal
	•	The Open Analytical Chemistry Journal
	•	The Open Anesthesiology Journal
	•	The Open Anthropology Journal
	•	The Open Applied Informatics Journal
	•	The Open Applied Linguistics Journal
	•	The Open Applied Mathematics Journal
	•	The Open Applied Physics Journal
	•	The Open Area Studies Journal
	•	The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal
	•	The Open Astronomy Journal
	•	The Open Atmospheric Science Journal
	•	The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal
	•	The Open Behavioral Science Journal
	•	The Open Bioactive Compounds Journal
	•	The Open Biochemistry Journal
	•	The Open Bioinformatics Journal
	•	The Open Biology Journal
	•	The Open Biomarkers Journal
	•	The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal
	•	The Open Biotechnology Journal
	•	The Open Business Journal
	•	The Open Cancer Journal
	•	The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal
	•	The Open Cell & Developmental Biology Journal
	•	The Open Chemical and Biomedical Methods Journal
	•	The Open Chemical Engineering Journal
	•	The Open Chemical Physics Journal
	•	The Open Civil Engineering Journal
	•	The Open Clinical Cancer Journal
	•	The Open Clinical Chemistry Journal
	•	The Open Communication Journal
	•	The Open Condensed Matter Physics Journal
	•	The Open Construction & Building Technology Journal
	•	The Open Conservation Biology Journal
	•	The Open Critical Care Medicine Journal
	•	The Open Crystallography Journal
	•	The Open Criminology Journal
	•	Current Chemical Genomics
	•	The Open Current Process Chemistry Journal
	•	The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal
	•	The Open Demography Journal
	•	The Open Dentistry Journal
	•	The Open Dermatology Journal
	•	The Open Drug Metabolism Journal
	•	The Open Drug Delivery Journal
	•	The Open Ecology Journal
	•	The Open Economics Journal
	•	The Open Education Journal
	•	The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal
	•	Journal of Epithelial Biology & Pharmacology
	•	The Open Energy and Fuels Journal
	•	The Open Endocrinology Journal
	•	The Open Entomology Journal
	•	The Open Environmental Journal
	•	The Open Environmental & Biological Monitoring Journal
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	•	The Open Enzyme Inhibition Journal
	•	The Open Ergonomics Journal
	•	The Open Evolution Journal
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	•	Open Glycoscience
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	•	The Open Infectious Diseases Journal
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	•	The Open Information Systems Journal
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		The Open Inorganic Chemistry Journal
		The Open law Journal
	•	The Open Macromolecules Journal
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	•	The Open Medical Informatics Journal
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	•	The Open Nitric Oxide Journal
	•	The Open Nuclear & Particle Physics Journal
	•	The Open Nursing Journal
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	•	The Open Ocean Engineering Journal
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	•	The Open Operational Research Journal
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	•	The Open Organic Chemistry Journal
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	•	The Open Rehabilitation Journal
	•	The Open Reproductive Science Journal
	•	The Open Respiratory Medicine Journal
	•	The Open Rheumatology Journal
	•	The Open Sleep Journal
	•	The Open Social Science Journal
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	•	The Open Software Engineering Journal
	•	The Open Spectroscopy Journal
	•	The Open Sports Medicine Journal
	•	The Open Sports Sciences Journal
	•	The Open Structural Biology Journal
	•	The Open Surgery Journal
	•	The Open Thermodynamics Journal
	•	The Open Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Journal
	•	The Open Toxicology Journal
	•	The Open Transportation Journal
	•	The Open Tropical Medicine Journal
	•	The Open Transplantation Journal
	•	The Open Urban Studies Journal
	•	The Open Urology & Nephrology Journal
	•	The Open Vaccine Journal
	•	The Open Veterinary Science Journal
	•	The Open Virology Journal
	•	The Open Women's Health Journal
	•	The Open Zoology Journal

Auto-arquivo é recomendado pelo Nature Publishing Group

2008-01-17T13:39:00.000Z

"When a manuscript is accepted for publication in an NPG journal, authors are encouraged to submit the author's version of the accepted paper (the unedited manuscript) to PubMedCentral or other appropriate funding body's archive, for public release six months after publication. In addition, authors are encouraged to archive this version of the manuscript in their institution's repositories and, if they wish, on their personal websites, also six months after the original publication. In all these cases, authors should cite the publication reference and DOI number on any deposited version, and provide a link from it to the URL of the published article on the journal's website (see publications A-Z index)".

BioMed Central anuncia nova revista em OA "Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance"

2008-01-16T08:43:00.001Z

"This journal (JCMR), the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance , is an open access, online journal that publishes articles on all aspects of basic and clinical research on the design, development, manufacture, and evaluation of magnetic resonance methods applied to the cardiovascular system.

The only journal devoted exclusively to cardiovascular magnetic resonance, JCMR aims to provide an international forum for communicating the latest findings and state-of-the-art reviews on the burgeoning field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, filling a critical gap in the science and practice of cardiology and related disciplines.

Topical areas include, but are not limited to: - New applications of magnetic resonance to the improve the diagnostic strategies, risk stratification, and characterization of diseases affecting the cardiovascular system
- New methods to enhance acquisition and data analysis
- Results of multicenter, or larger individual center, studies that provide insight into the utility of MR
- Basic biological perceptions derived by MR methods".

Hindawi lança mais um título em OA "Psyche: A Journal of Entomology"

2008-01-16T08:39:00.000Z

"Since its inaugural issue in 1874, Psyche has been published by the Cambridge Entomological Club and has served as a leading forum for the publication of fundamental entomological research. Hindawi is currently in the process of digitizing the back volumes of Psyche, which will be made freely available on the journal's website over the coming months.

Psyche is currently accepting new submissions, and all published articles will be made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited".

European Research Council torna OA obrigatório

2008-01-15T08:41:00.000Z

"The ERC requires that all peer-reviewed publications from ERC-funded
research projects be deposited on publication into an appropriate
research repository where available, such as PubMed Central, ArXiv
or an institutional repository, and subsequently made Open Access
within 6 months of publication."

National Institutes of Health (NIH), EUA, torna OA obrigatório

2008-01-15T08:33:00.000Z

"Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite"

2008-01-09T12:29:00.000Z

Novo título da BioMed Central "Parasites & Vectors"

2008-01-09T12:22:00.000Z

Agence Nationale de Recherche (França)

2007-12-11T18:50:00.000Z

A ANR de França incita os investigadores a tornarem acessíveis os resultados da investigação por ela financiados.

Caltech CODA (Collection of Open Digital Archives)

2007-12-11T18:43:00.000Z

Fornece o acesso a mais de 13,500 monografias, dissertações, artigos, relatórios técnicos, patentes, etc.

CaltechAUTHORS inclui mais de 8000 registos e o CaltechETD inclui mais de 4000 registos (45% das 9000 dissertações existentes

George S. Porter via SPARC

Ferramenta de pesquisa multidisciplinar

2007-12-04T08:03:00.000Z

University of Pittsburgh - University Press Digital Editions

2007-12-03T09:48:00.000Z

A University of Pittsburgh University Press Digital Editions oferece acesso livre às colecções digitalizadas, tendo, no momento, 39 volumes.

Arquivo de preprints de Filosofia da Ciência da Universidade de Pittsburgh

2007-12-03T09:43:00.000Z

BioMed Central lança YouTube

2007-11-28T18:59:00.000Z

Veja o vídeo sobre os benefícios do OA

Filosofia e TICs

2007-11-27T08:27:00.000Z

Oferece um conjunto de textos e de recursos.

Enciclopédia em vídeo sobre a herança e cultura da Índia

2007-11-26T11:18:00.000Z

Planet Earth: From Space to Place

2007-11-26T11:16:00.000Z

A Biblioteca do Congresso e a Electronic Literature Organization

2007-11-21T19:26:00.000Z

A Biblioteca do Congresso pediu à ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) para seleccionar uma amostra de 300 páginas Web relacionadas com o tema como contributo para o Internet Archive.

Serão organizadas em três áreas:

Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Electronic Literature: Context

SAGE e Hindawi anunciam acordo em OA

2007-11-21T08:19:00.001Z

Oxford Journals e a London Mathematical Society lançam Journal of Topology

2007-11-04T10:09:00.000Z

que estará disponível em livre acesso no primeiro ano.

Universidade da California lança o projecto Mark Twain

2007-11-04T10:04:00.000Z

RePEc blog

2007-11-04T08:38:00.000Z

Os utilizadores do RePEC - Research Papers in Economics - têm agora um blog.

Portal Laboratórios Virtuais de Processos Químicos

2007-11-04T08:34:00.000Z

SSRN cria New Humanities Research Network (HRN)

2007-11-01T07:53:00.000Z

O HRN iniciar-se-á com as seguintes redes:

- HRN CLASSIC RESEARCH NETWORK
Director: Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin

- HRN ENGLISH & AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH NETWORK
Director: Susan Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin

- HRN PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH NETWORK
Directors: Lawrence Becker, Hollins University and Brie Gertler,
University of Virginia

The abstracting eJournals for each of these networks are listed below.
You can view the expandable Humanities Research Network
taxonomy at http://SSRN.com/browse.

SSRN eLibrary
All abstracts and papers, together with bibliographic data
and author contact information.

The SSRN eLibrary contains more than 164,000 papers
by 82,000 authors, including 131,000 full text papers. 

HRN CLASSIC RESEARCH NETWORK
Director: Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin
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to view all the papers in HRN Classic Research Network:

Archeology & Material Culture
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SSRN's objective is to provide rapid, worldwide distribution of 
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In pursuit of this objective, we allow authors to upload papers
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Open Access: the New World of Research Communication, 10 Outubro, 2007

2007-10-30T08:07:00.000Z

As apresentações em PowerPoint, webcast e video desta conferência estão disponíveis.

As bibliotecas da Universidade Livre de Bruxelas e as Edições da Universidade de Bruxelas dão acesso a cópias digitais em acesso livre

2007-10-29T14:31:00.000Z

"The Libraries of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles (EUB), its publishing imprint, collaborate to provide free online access to recent books published by EUB which are out of print. The e-books are available on the Digithèque web site, the collection of digital copies of printed books created by the Libraries.

Providing online open access to EUB recent books is valuable

· For the public, who can freely read the books online,

· For the authors, whose books are offered a second life,

· For the publisher, whose collections become more visible.

Around 20 books are already available online, related to political science, sociology, European law, history, history of religions, statistics, environment…

The agreement between the EUB and the Libraries is part of the ULB policy as signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

Other open access initiatives of ULB include: The Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe commissioned by DG Research-European Commission; BICTEL/e, the Directory of electronic theses and dissertation; the Digithèque, its digitization program of ancient books from the Libraries’ collections and their online full-text availability; its Institutional Repository, under development, which aims to collect and provide online open access to publications and scientific works by ULB professors and researchers.

Les Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles : http://www.editions-universite-bruxelles.be/

The Librairies of Université Libre de Bruxelles : http:// www.bib.ulb.ac.be"

Texto de Françoise Vandooren

Novo número do International Journal of Baudrillard Studies

2007-10-24T08:57:00.000+01:00

EurOpenScholarship

2007-10-21T08:45:00.000+01:00

No dia 18 de Outubro, o Reitor da Universidade de Liege recebeu Reitores das Universidades de Trieste, Roma 2, Roma 3, Politécnico da Catalunha, Vicenza, Porto, Salford, Lancaster, Roterdão (U. Erasmus), Turim, Antuérpia, Ghent e Southampton, bem como os administradores ou directores do Instituto Paul Ehrlich, o Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Caspur Consortium, o Rutherford Appleton Laboratory e um representante da Comissão Europeia. O objectivo do encontro foi estabelecer as bases de um movimento europeau para o Acesso Livre as publicações científicas e académicas: EurOpenScholarship.
(Reenvio de Alma Swan para Stevan Harnad)

Versão inglesa de alguns excertos do discurso do Reitor:
"EurOpenScholar will be a showcase and a tool for the promotion of OA in Europe. It will be a consortium of European universities resolved to move forward on OA and to try to convince the largest possible number of researchers, their institutions and their European Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly be the mode of communication of tomorrow. The transitional period will be the most difficult. Our goal is to facilitate and thereby accelerate as much as possible the transition to the OA era. (...)
The EurOpenScholar web site, hosted by the ULg, will provide an information-gathering service concerning OA institutional repositories and OA journals, with a discussion forum on OA and the methods emerging in the field of scientometrics (research performance and impact measurement, ranking and anlysis). (...) EurOpenScholar's primary objective will be to open researchers' eyes to the new ways of promoting the spread of knowledge and of assessing research progress and performance in the OA era. This will contribute to the advancement of research in Europe and to the promotion of European research and European researchers. (...)
In addition, EurOpenScholar will address itself to research managers, funding agencies, national and local research policy-makers, the R&D industry, the media, and the general public, facilitating synergies and technology transfer and providing an effective channel for the communication of real science to the public, either directly or through the media."
[Bernard Rentier, Rector, U. Liege]

Mensagem de Stevan Harnad

Artigos que conduziram ao Nobel podem ser descarregados livremente

2007-10-17T11:24:00.000+01:00

Da American Physical Society:

Enhanced magnetoresistance in layered magnetic structures with antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange( G. Binasch, P. Grünberg, F. Saurenbach, and W. Zinn, Phys. Rev. B 39, 4828 (1989))

Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr Magnetic Superlattices(M. N. Baibich, J. M. Broto, A. Fert, F. Nguyen Van Dau, F. Petroff, P. Eitenne, G. Creuzet, A. Friederich, and J. Chazelas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2472 (1988))

Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas (L.N. Cooper, Phys. Rev. 104, 1189 (1956))

Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity (J. Bardeen, L.N. Cooper, and J. R. Schrieffer, Phys. Rev. 106, 162 (1957))

Theory of Superconductivity (J. Bardeen, L. N. Cooper, and J. R. Schrieffer, Phys. Rev. 108, 1175 (1957))"

Do American Institute of Physics (http://journals.aip.org/Nobel2007.html), incluindo:

Theory of magnetic superlattices: Interlayer exchange coupling and magnetoresistance of transition metal structures
P. M. Levy, K. Ounadjela, S. Zhang, Y. Wang, C. B. Sommers, and A. Fert
J. Appl. Phys. 67, 5914 (1990)

Magnetic and transport properties of Fe/Cr superlattices
A. Barthélémy, A. Fert, M. N. Baibich, S. Hadjoudj, F. Petroff, P. Etienne, R. Cabanel, S.
Lequien, F. Nguyen Van Dau, and G. Creuzet
J. Appl. Phys. 67, 5908 (1990)

Layered magnetic structures: Antiferromagnetic-type interlayer coupling and magnetoresistance due to antiparallel alignment
P. Grünberg, S. Demokritov, A. Fuss, M. Vohl, and J. A. Wolf
J. Appl. Phys. 69, 4789 (1991)

Interplay between oscillatory exchange coupling and coercivities in giant magnetoresistive [Ni80Fe20/Cu/Co/Cu] multilayers
T. Valet, J. C. Jacquet, P. Galtier, J. M. Coutellier, L. G. Pereira, R. Morel, D. Lottis, and A. Fert Appl. Phys. Lett. 61, 3187 (1992)

Magnetoresistance in rf-sputtered (NiFe/Cu/Co/Cu) spin-valve multilayers
D. Lottis, A. Fert, R. Morel, L. G. Pereira, J. C. Jacquet, P. Galtier, J. M. Coutellier, and T. Valet J. Appl. Phys. 73, 5515 (1993)

Calculation of the temperature dependence of the giant MR and application to Co/Cu multilayers
J. L. Duvail, A. Fert, L. G. Pereira, and D. K. Lottis
J. Appl. Phys. 75, 7070 (1994)

Giant magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayered nanowires
L. Piraux, J. M. George, J. F. Despres, C. Leroy, E. Ferain, R. Legras, K. Ounadjela, and A. Fert Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 2484 (1994)

Magnetoresistance and magnetization oscillations in Fe/Cr/Fe trilayers
R. Schad, C. D. Potter, P. Beliën, G. Verbanck, V. V. Moshchalkov, Y. Bruynseraede, M. Schäfer, R. Schäfer, and P. Grünberg
J. Appl. Phys. 76, 6604 (1994)

Perpendicular giant magnetoresistance of NiFe/Cu multilayered nanowires
S. Dubois, C. Marchal, J. M. Beuken, L. Piraux, J. L. Duvail, A. Fert, J. M. George, and J. L. Maurice
Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 396 (1997)

Inverse CPP-GMR in (A/Cu/Co/Cu) multilayers (A=NiCr, FeCr, FeV) and discussion of the spin asymmetry induced by impurities
C. Vouille, A. Fert, A. Barthélémy, S. Y. Hsu, R. Loloee, and P. A. Schroeder
J. Appl. Phys. 81, 4573 (1997)

Informação recebida de Peter Suber

Nova revista em OA da BioMed Central "Journal of Biological Engineering"

2007-10-14T09:29:00.000+01:00

Site do ALEMPLUS

2007-10-06T08:57:00.000+01:00

Está já disponível o site ALEMPLUS (Acesso Livre em Países Lusófonos) que visa sensibilizar para a necessidade da divulgação da informação científica produzida nestes países com o objectivo de lhe conferir maior visibilidade.

Novidades da Taylor & Francis de revistas em OA

2007-10-05T09:21:00.000+01:00

Discurso do Ministro Mariano Gago no encerramento da conferência Berlin 5 Open Access

2007-10-01T16:07:00.000+01:00

Materiais de suporte ao ensino em OA

2007-09-28T12:54:00.000+01:00

Manuscritos medievais na Holanda disponíveis na Web

2007-09-25T16:59:00.000+01:00

Canadian Journal of Sociology em OA

2007-09-24T09:17:00.000+01:00

O Canadian Journal of Sociology passa a estar em acesso livre. As razões que conduzem a esta mudança são explicadas por Kevin Haggerty, o próximo editor desta revista, Change and Continuity at the Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, que destaca, entre outras, o maior impacto que os autores podem atingir quando um título se encontra em OA, o número e a extensão dos artigos aceites para publicação e a adição de funcionalidades impossíveis de implementar no ambiente impresso.

The New York Times em acesso livre

2007-09-24T09:12:00.000+01:00

Carlyle Letters Online

2007-09-17T18:22:00.000+01:00

Esta colecção agora disponível permite explorar recursos da era vitoriana. Publicado pela Duke University Press está agora, via HighWire Press, disponível sem qualquer encargo para indivíduos ou instituições.

OncologySTAT

2007-09-17T18:02:00.000+01:00

A Reed Elsevier abriu-se ao OA com a criação de um site dedicado à oncologia no qual é fornecido acesso livre ao conteúdo das revistas desta editora incluindo o The Lancet e o Surgical Oncology. Em troca, é pedido àqueles que trabalham na área da saúde (incluindo bibliotecários) que procedam ao registo. O serviço é pago através de publicidade inserida nas páginas.

Royal Society Digital Journal Archive disponível de 1 de Setembro a 30 de Novembro de 2007

2007-09-17T11:44:00.000+01:00

O "Royal Society Digital Journal Archive" que remonta a 1665 e inclui 60,000 artigos está livremente disponível em linha de 1 de Setembro a 30 de Novembro de 2007.

O SPARC e a CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) publicam adenda para que os autores possam reter o copyright dos seus artigos

2007-09-09T12:15:00.000+01:00

A Fundação MacArthur anunciou o financialmento de projectos na área da 'New Digital Media and Learning"

2007-09-09T12:11:00.000+01:00

O Internet Archive foi reconhecido oficialmente como uma biblioteca

2007-09-09T11:54:00.000+01:00

Learned Publishing inclui opção para OA

2007-07-31T13:26:00.000+01:00

"The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), publisher of Learned Publishing – the leading journal on scholarly and professional publishing – announces a hybrid ‘Open Access’ option whereby authors can choose to make their articles freely available online immediately on publication, on payment of a fee.
(...)
The ‘ALPSP Author Choice' service is being offered on a trial basis that will run for 12 months, before being reviewed by ALPSP Council, at which point the current subscription rates will also be considered".
Fonte: Lesley Ogg

Oxford University Press anuncia baixar os preços das suas revistas

2007-07-30T12:33:00.000+01:00

A redução anunciada pela OUP deve-se ao facto de cada vez mais autores escolherem disponibilizar os seus artigos em acesso livre através do Oxford's Oxford Open pagando o custo envolvido.
titutional subscription for the title.
É possível aceder à lista das revistas e respectivo ajustamento de preço, apontando para A list of the journals in Oxford Open and their 2008 pricing adjustments is available. <.doc>

Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition

2007-07-24T15:46:00.000+01:00

Uma nova revista em acesso livre editada pela BioMed Central:
"This journal the official journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) is an open access, online, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses a broad range of aspects concerning sports nutrition, supplementation, exercise metabolism, and/or related scientific policies".

5th Freedom: Research in Europe

2007-07-09T15:09:00.000+01:00

Estão disponíveis as sessões em vídeo do evento '5th Freedom: Research in Europe'.

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Espanha

2007-07-09T15:02:00.000+01:00

O Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas já tem 12 das 32 revistas que edita em OA e planeia adicionar as restantes.

American Physiological Society disponibiliza "Open Choice"

2007-07-03T19:21:00.000+01:00

Os autores que pretendam publicar em títulos da American Physiological Society e tornar os seus contributos imediatamente disponíveis podem recorrer à opção "Open choice" custeando o pagamento associado ao OA. Tal opção está disponível desde o dia 1 de Julho de 2007 e visa responder, entre outras, à preocupação de tornar os conteúdos OA sempre e quando tal constituir uma condição para o financiamento da investigação.

Nova ferramenta: Journal Info

2007-07-01T11:07:00.000+01:00

As bibliotecas da Universidade de Lund com o patrocínio da Biblioteca Nacional da Suécia, disponibilizaram uma nova ferramenta, ”Journal Info”, para fornecer o acesso rápido e simples à informação das revistas. A informação encontra-se dividida em quatro rubricas: geral, acessibilidade, custo e qualidade e cada área inclui um conjunto de pontos relevantes: por exemplo, as bases de dados onde a revista é indexada, o seu custo para a biblioteca ou as fontes alternativas de revistas em livre acesso. Estão já incluídas 18.000 títulos.

Esta base de dados destina-se a complementar o DOAJ (Directory of Open Access JOurnals), igualmente produzido pela Universidade de Lund.

Canadian Library Association adere ao OA

2007-07-01T11:03:00.000+01:00

A Canadian Library Association (CLA) fornecerá o acesso livre a todas as suas publicações com excepção para o Feliciter e as monografias. Para o primeiro haverá um período de embargo de um fascículo, enquanto as monografias serão consideradas caso a caso como candidatas para a publicação em OA.

O relatório da "Task Force's Report" está disponível em:
http://www.cla.ca/about/committees/Open%20Access%20Report.pdf

Fonte: Heather Morrison

Uma nova ferramenta para troca de informação: Nature Precedings

2007-06-20T10:38:00.000+01:00

"Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened by our professional curation team for relevance and quality, but are not subjected to peer review. We welcome high-quality contributions from biology, medicine (except clinical trials), chemistry and the earth sciences".

Journal of Experimental Botany disponibiliza acesso livre aos assinantes da revista

2007-06-20T10:31:00.000+01:00

"Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that all primary papers published in the Journal of Experimental Botany after 1 April 2007 are being published without any open access charge if the corresponding author’s institution has a current subscription to the journal.

The Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) launched the first phase of its open access (OA) experiment in April 2004 and since this time approximately 30% of primary research articles have been made freely available online from the time of publication. In the first phase of the experiment, publication costs were partially met in part by OA fees from authors (£250 per paper) and by two grants from the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

The unique feature of the new phase of JXB’s open access experiment is that institutional subscriptions will now pay not only for content (including reviews and special issues, which are not eligible for open access) but also for open access publication. Corresponding authors from subscribing institutions will have no OA charges to pay, while others who wish to take advantage of OA publication in JXB will have to pay £1500 ($2800/€2250).

‘We are working hard at building a viable business model that can provide a sustainable service to the plant science community,’ explains Professor Jerry Roberts, Editor-in-Chief, based at the University of Nottingham. ‘The cost of a full online subscription to the JXB in 2007 is £816 ($1469, €1224). On a cost per page basis this is a very competitive price; it is cheaper than any other comparable plant science journal without page charges or subsidy, and will now include the additional benefit of providing free open access for member authors.’

The Journal of Experimental Botany is one of 50 journals published by Oxford Journals that offer optional open access, and its new initiative broadens Oxford Journal’s experiments with open access publishing models. Instead of Oxford Open’s standard optional open access model, which offers a two tier author payment system with substantial discounts for authors from subscribing institutions, this initiative makes open access completely free for these authors, thus putting the onus on libraries to support open access via their members".
Fonte: Oxford Journals apud Peter Suber

RomeReborn 1.0

2007-06-13T11:55:00.000+01:00

Uma equipa internacional composta por especialistas oriundos de diferentes áreas do conhecimento criou a cidade de Roma, com imagens fixas e animadas, tal como seria no ano 320.