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What Authors Want From Open Access Publishing

Decision-makers, administrators and research managers should focus on Sections 8 and 9 that capture all relevant issues of OA policy development.

The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter.

Recommendations and reaffirmations for open access publishing on the 10th anniversary of the Budapest declaration

Aims " to collect, preserve, and make accessible as much of the digital record of the disasters as possible, to enable scholarly research and analysis of the events and their effect." A new project from metaLab

five factors - peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata - as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles,

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a project funded within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), develops a network of open repositories providing free online Access to knowledge produced by researchers receiving grants from the European Commission or the European Research Council

Heather Morrison has released a draft of her doctoral thesis Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age.

A thoughtful and well-researched article that offers positive and negative quality indicators for evaluating open access journals for publishing considerations, while the authors caution against a "one-size fits all" approach and the importance of guiding faculty and researchers to make informed personal choices.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published Tuesday a landmark paper entitled "Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain" (an open-access paper) by Dharmendra S. Modha (IBM Almaden) and Raghavendra Singh (IBM Research-India) with major implications for reverse-engineering the brain and developing a network of cognitive-computing chips. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman)

Computers and the web have transformed homes and businesses, and could do the same for education and training. Known as "eLearning," this can be as simple as accessing a school timetable online, or as complex as running virtual communities for sharing and creating knowledge.

"As more sources for citation information have become available - even many scholarly databases today offering cited reference data - the need to identify, access and manage these resources is becoming acute. Information professionals need to become more proactive in their strategies to support these applications and users. .."

Intricate maps of science have been created from citation data to visualize the structure of scientific activity. However, most scientific publications are now accessed online. Scholarly web portals record detailed log data at a scale that exceeds the num

eScience and open access to data chapter by den Besten, P. David and Ralph Schroeder

The portability of a complete course on a mobile device enables students to learn in the classroom, on the bus, or at home-anytime, anywhere. With the new HMH Fuse: Algebra 1, students will have access to all the resources they need on one device

VOSON System - web-based software for the collection and analysis of online network data; incorporates web mining, data visualisation, and social network analysis (SNA). VOSON Data Provider for NodeXL - a plugin for NodeXL (Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel), which is a template for Excel 2007. VOSON+NodeXL allows VOSON account holders users to access VOSON System functionality (data collection and processing) from within NodeXL. Alpha version released February 2010. VOSON SNSLab - a

Metrics collected by reference management software are especially intriguing because they offer a measure of active interest without requiring researchers to do anything more than what they are already doing. Scientists collect the papers they find interesting, take notes on them, and store the information in a place that is accessible and useful to them

Revenue sharing model with publishers, users pay for a small fee for access to sections they are interested in

Heather Morrison reviews statistics of OA growth including DOAJ, Scientific commons, insitutional mandates

critique of an earlier asrtcle by Harnad and others http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0361