2009/10/06
2009/09/15
Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE)
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.
"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.
2009/05/24
2009/05/04
2009/03/28
Comunidade Autónoma de Madrid adere ao auto-arquivo
"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]
“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]
2009/03/22
MIT adopta política de auto-arquivo
"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
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
2008/12/30
RCAAP
"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".
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
"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".
2008/11/22
Lançamento da Europeana
O êxito do lançamento da Europeana, deixou o site temporariamente indisponível.
Para ver o vídeo de apresentação aponte para aqui.
Para ver o vídeo de apresentação aponte para aqui.
Lançamento da "The Global Library of Women's Medicine"
Reúne material de extrema qualidade, sujeito a 'peer review'.
2008/10/28
Direitos de autor
Mais um documento que visa esclarecer sobre os aspectos fundamentais a ter em conta na publicação de artigos científicos.
2008/10/27
Mais um título da BioMed Central: Epigenetics & Chromatin
"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
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
2008/10/11
Universidade de Glasgow reforça posição relativamente ao OA
"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]
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]
2008/10/09
Prémio Nobel da Física 2008
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.]
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.]
2008/09/22
Espresso Book Machine da On Demand Books na biblioteca da Universidade de Michigan
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."
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."
2008/09/16
SAGE-Hindawi lançaram novo título em OA: Dental Biomechaniscs
"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"
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"
2008/09/05
Professional Engineering Publishing Launches Engineering Conferences Online
"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
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
2008/07/25
RoMEO inclui mais de 400 políticas editoriais acerca do auto-arquivo
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]
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]
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