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American Research Journals Inc., is maintaining 18 open access online international journals list including the journals on Agricultural Sciences, Biosciences, Engineering and Medical journals.

ARJ's mission is to provide a creative platform for highly qualified authors to publish their open access journals and academic journals on a global platform to a broad audience.

ARJ's mission is to provide a creative platform for highly qualified authors to publish their open access journals and academic journals on a global platform to a broad audience.

I was reading about the small window that opened the other day in the "Great Firewall of China" and then read this article. It bothers me that so many people seem to be ready to send printing presses to a junkyard and rely entirely on electronic distribution of information. First, there is still a HUGE demographic who does not have regular access to the internet. Secondly, what would happen if all of our information could be controlled with a filtering program? And finally, printed material still gets into places that a computer cannot. I read an opinion piece in the NYT before Christmas that discussed how an Afghanistan woman learned to read with the help of her young daughter and the newspaper pieces that wrapped her fish. Are we turning information into something elitist? Is there a parallel between a push to make everything electronic - so only people with Kindles and laptops can get information, and a time not-so-long-ago when literacy was a class distinction? DO WE REALLY WANT TO CREATE A NEW CLASS DISTINCTION BY RESTRICTING INFORMATION TO ONLY THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD ACCESS TO IT?

Fascinating points!!! The printed word has been responsible for the American colonists ability to read the words of the great Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin and perhaps be inspired to foment the continued revolt that brought us America. It brought the thoughts of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and Adolf Hitler to the world. For good, and less so, the printed word has been a catalyst for change that has moved the world and impacted people around the globe. While there are many who have access to the Internet and PC, there are far greater numbers around the world who have no such access, for them even a phone is a luxury. Many represent the populations of the third world, but high numbers are the disadvantaged right here at home or in other developed nations around the globe. When oppressive regimes and less then optimal economic or geographic conditions prevent technology from bringing information via wire or air wave, the printing press will continue to spread the message. Education, found in the pages of textbooks, passed down from generation to generation or moved around the world, bring knowledge and potential to those who have no access to the Internet. Until, in some distant future when the earth is truly the global nation envisioned by some futurists today, the printing press will hold its place as a global facilitator of knowledge and information.

Bentham revisited!!! Hoax article pulled prior to print. How can we better protect the validity of content with the rapid spread of Open Access Publishing?

Google has been working with the Federal government on facilitating access to government data - this article talks about the first fruits of that effort.

So many posts from the Scholarly Kitchen could be linked here because they often write on relevant topics, but this one caught my eye. The discussion about the open access book, which will not be made open access until a year out, is particularly interesting.

This is a great article on the importance of universal broadband access and why it is in the public's interest.

Is open access a solution for bridging the digital divide? Many people think so.

Haystack is a new program designed to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran. The software package is compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix systems, and specifically targets the Iranian government's web filtering mechanisms

American research journals publishes the most rapid and reliable information of open access journals in the development area of agricultural sciences.

Good news for students, teachers, and (potentially) textbook publishers.

From Meredith "Another interesting article to share about the digital divide in America. What I thought was interesting in this wasn't that there was a gap in technology tools but that there is a gap in technology support once those tools/gadgets arrive at the school."

Very interesting article. Though internet access can be a huge problem in rural areas, this article didn't mention its rather large costs. Often times, rural areas pay significantly more for internet than in a city. For some of these kids the problem is not just having the phone company improve access, but the cost of it, too.

Interesting blog post about the New York Times using material from a freely accessible website for an editorial column, which the Times then charged users to access (part of their paywall).

Here is some information about open access and the Public Knowledge Project. This piece generated a lot of comments, which are also worth reading.

The debate about open access continues with a hearing that was held in Washington on Thursday.

One of the downsides to easy access to online content is that it makes plagiarism easier too. Another high-profile writer is caught plagiarizing.

I think this is an excellent read on the rapid speed of the digital divide. Written about England, but applies everywhere.

Concern the the Google-AAP settlement gives Google an unfair advantage wrt to orphan books and may inhibit scholarly access to these out-of-print works.

Response to criticism of the Google Book Settlement by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.