Monthly Archives: April 2008

Open Access Week – kudos to the Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust has led the revolution towards making research articles both free (priceFree) and Open/libre (permissionFree). Here is Robert Kiley on Stevan Harnad’s blog (link): At the Wellcome Trust we also believe that “fair use is not enough” if … Continue reading

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Open Access Week – thank you MRC

Peter Suber alerts us to the MRC’s new mandate on the publication of their funded research Revision to OA mandate at MRC (read it). The key paragraph is simple: [MRC] If an open access fee has been paid MRC requires … Continue reading

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UKSG – final thoughts – the future is in your hands

I didn’t have time to blog during UKSG so here are a few random bits. I had the general feeling of a community knowing that inevitable unspecified change was going to happen but no sense that they could do anything … Continue reading

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Clarification on ACS/NIH policy

Rich Apodaca posted the definitive version of the ACS position on the NIH mandate: ACS and the NIH Public Access Policy: Clarification at Last (permalink) An alert Depth-First reader pointed me to the new ACS policy for authors receiving NIH … Continue reading

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A Wikipedia for data…

From Rufus Pollock: Open Data Going Mainstream? RP: Bret Taylor’s recent post entitled “We Need a Wikipedia for Data” has been garnering a lot of attention around the blogosphere. [PMR – there are zillions of useful comments] While his suggestions … Continue reading

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A better interpretation of "green" and "gold"

In my last post I had the presumption to lecture my readership on what “green” and “gold” access mean. Hubris strikes – I got it wrong. I comment on the comments and then continue with why I think “green” is … Continue reading

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Open Access Week – Green is not enough

As today is part of “Open Access Week” (April 7 was when the NIH mandate took effect), I’m trying to write a post a day on the topic… UPDATE — my use of Green and Gold is not correct — … Continue reading

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UKSG

A few snippets from my 1.5 days at UK Serials Group meeting – a mixture of publishers, LIS and others. One scientist. I don’t think that many at the meeting really had much idea what scientists actually do on a … Continue reading

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OA at Stirling

I was on the Staff at the University of Stirling (in Scotland) for 15 years so I am delighted to repost Peter Suber: Stirling U adopts an OA mandate: (Stirling research goes global, a press release from Stirling University, April … Continue reading

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UKSG – Jim Griffin

Spent the last 1.5 days at UK Serials Group in Torquay – a mixture of univeristy LIS people, publishers and suppliers of services/products in scholarly publishing. A clear indication that major change is in the air but few pointers that … Continue reading

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