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All about OA publishing in the one flow chart.

Interesting blog post re a growing and disturbing trend - academic spamming in the name of "open access publication". Read before you agree to any approach from InTech

Open access to knowledge.

Another useful blog post about what is and what is not Open Access publication. There are some shifty people out there so beware.

A nice intro about open access scholarly publishing.

"Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable"

Great presentation with some simple advice for academics and researchers about raising their online profiles, using open access and some colaborative tools.

Presentation about the costs of higher education (albeit US costs) and some alternative ways we can assist including more open access, social media and social networks.

Open access to 690,569 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

Open access content harvester / search engine.

Sniffing out peer review scams

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Hi Sophie, I currently use Endnote but am thinking about switching to Mendeley. I've read that Mendeley doesn't interact as easily (i.e import references) with Library Online Catalogues /databases- have you tried it? Also, are there any copyright issues with Mendeley if I want to keep pdf's attached to all my references and share my library with users? Does it have the functionality to share just citations but not the fulltext pdf's?

Hi Sarina 1. I haven't seen any options to export references to mendeley in catalogues or databases. However they get around this by using a web bookmarking tool to bookmark and then import citation information from databases. I haven't tested this function so you may want to try it out with the databases you like to use before you give up Endnote. Here's the link to learn more: http://www.mendeley.com/import/ 2. This is a bit of a copyright minefield. You could only share someone else's copyrighted work if you have written permission from the author, or they use something like a creative commons license which allows sharing. Educational purposes only encompasses sharing a work to UTS students or staff and this sharing must occur through our DRR (http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/staff/learning-and-teaching/digital-resources-register). You can share your own materials as long as you still hold the copyright of your work and haven't signed it over to your publisher. *phew* This is why we love open access at UTS :D We have heaps of info about copyright here: http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/students/finding-information/copyright 3.You can add citations without adding a pdf. I hope that helps :D

a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.