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UK Parliament - Commons Select Commitee, 10/09/13 The Government's commitment to increasing access to published research findings, and its desire to achieve full open access, are welcome, says the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee in a Report published today. However, whilst Gold open access is a desirable ultimate goal, focusing on it during the transition to a fully open access world is a mistake, says the Report.

07/03/14 In contrast with the type of openness encouraged by Open Education Resources and Open Courseware labels, the openness of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is severely limited. Consequently, Leo Havemann and Javiera Atenas find the recent growth of high quality online learning content is not able to be used to its full advantage. The process of opening up MOOC resources would add value to the resources by reaching a wider community. But most importantly, HE institutions currently investing in MOOCs could demonstrate, beyond reasonable doubt, their real commitment to openness and improved access to education for all.

by Benedikt Fecher & Tony Ross-Hellauer - Impact of Social Sciences - 25/01/18 Openness is deeply rooted in how science understands itself. The shoulders of giants upon which Newton saw future generations standing continue to bring us all closer to understanding. More broadly, "open" is a key ingredient of narratives of the digital sphere. Just as in open source software, the prefix denotes a dissolution of a formerly linear and closed production mode in favour of an accessible, decentralised, and loosely coupled system.

European Commission, 17/06/15 The EU-funded FP7 project RECODE has leveraged existing networks, communities and projects to address challenges within the open access and data dissemination and preservation sector. On the basis of this work, RECODE now presents policy recommendations on open access to research data.

Couperin, 15/12/14 Les résultats de l'enquête Réseaux sociaux de la recherche et Open Access menée en juin 2014

by Lucy Montgomery - Cltural Science, vol.7:n°2, 2014 This special issue of Cultural Science Journal is devoted to the report of a groundbreaking experiment in re-coordinating global markets for specialist scholarly books and enabling the knowledge commons: the Knowledge Unlatched proof-of-concept pilot. The pilot took place between January 2012 and September 2014. It involved libraries, publishers, authors, readers and research funders in the process of developing and testing a global library consortium model for supporting Open Access books. The experiment established that authors, librarians, publishers and research funding agencies can work together in powerful new ways to enable open access; that doing so is cost effective; and that a global library consortium model has the potential dramatically to widen access to the knowledge and ideas contained in book-length scholarly works. Full Text:pdf

par Guillaume Champeau - Numérama, 08/02/13 Lorsqu'on leur demande de choisir quelle licence utiliser pour diffuser leurs publications en Open Access, seulement 5 % des chercheurs choisissent la licence Creative Commons la plus permissive.

InTech, un éditeur multidisciplinaire, vient de publier les résultats d'une étude menée en avril dernier auprès de 211 bibliothécaires et intitulée « Assessing the role of librarians in an Open Access world », ayant pour but d'évaluer le rôle des bibliothécaires dans le monde du libre accès (Open Access). InTech a ainsi cherché à analyser : - le niveau de connaissances des bibliothécaires vis-à-vis de la publication en libre accès ; - leurs opinions et leurs attitudes envers le libre accès ; - leur rôle actuel en ce qui concerne le libre accès ; - les changements induits par le libre accès

By Sarah Fahmy - Open Access JISCinvolve, 03/08/14

Eve, Martin Paul - Cambridge University Press, 2014 - Ful text pdf URL If you work in a university, it is likely that you have heard the term "open access" in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of pay-to-say publishing. In this book, Dr. Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversies for open access, specifically in the humanities

by Bo-Christer Björk - Research on Open Access Publishing, 22/05/13 This is the accepted version of an article that will be published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Lancement d'un nouveau service de monographies en libre accès, Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), par OAPEN

Lancement du projet MedOANET (Mediterranean Open Access Network). Son objectif est de coordonner, à un niveau régional et national, les stratégies, politiques et structures pour le Libre accès dans six pays méditerranéens. Ce projet d'une durée de deux ans est financé dans le cadre du 7e programme cadre de la Commission européenne.

ENSSIB - Rencontre Open Access 24/06/2013

by Samuel Moore, 23/08/15 The competitive nature of scholarship and the precariousness of academic employment is what currently hinders early-career researchers, not open access publishing. Rather than warning researchers of the dangers of confronting outdated and proprietary forms of scholarship, all should be engaged in questioning the practices that perpetuate the broken system,

by Eanna Kelly - Science Business, 01/03/16 Dutch EU presidency has vowed to bring countries together on open access, but a new study reveals there is a long way to go in making journals subscription-free

par Stéphanie Michaux - Lettres numériques, 06/12/13 Cette semaine, Lettres numériques consacre un dossier spécial à l'open access ou archives ouvertes (comme vous voulez). Débat complexe, il interroge fondamentalement les questions de la diffusion du savoir et des droits d'auteurs. Il nous paraissait donc fondamental pour couvrir ce débat de présenter plusieurs éléments de réponses. Vous pourrez donc retrouver dans ce dossier spécial : une introduction à l'Open Access et ses enjeux ; une inteview de Paul Thirion, directeur général du réseau des bibliothèques de l'ULg ; une interview de Benoit Dubois, président de l'ADEB ; une interview de François Renaville, bibliothécaire ; un glossaire des archives ouvertes.

Welcome to the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities. Please feel free to look around the site and get in touch if you'd like to be involved.

Science in the open, 27/09/15