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Science librarians as campus OA advocates

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has blogged (Science librarians as campus OA advocates) an article : Elizabeth C. Turtle and Martin P. Courtois, Scholarly Communication: Science Librarians as Advocates for Change, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 2007. Abstract: Science librarians are … Continue reading →

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Ingenta replies; suggestions for the future

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

I have blogged about how our Open Access paper was offered for sale by Ingenta, and how they had removed our copyright on the abstract and replaced it by their own. I am pleased to see we have a reply: … Continue reading →

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Wiley and eMolecules: unacceptable; an explanation would be welcome

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

Some readers may have been surprised why I got agitated ( Wiley and eMolecules: Unacceptable) from a spam letter from eMolecules – after all we get umpteen SPAM a day, we had probably swapped emails and had even talked about … Continue reading →

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Grass roots action on exposing publisher blocks to OA

Posted on September 6, 2007 by pm286

I have had an excellent response from Alethea to my stories of publishers putting up toll or permission barriers to OA articles: Alethea Says: September 6th, 2007 at 8:05 am eI’m pretty certain that OA-labeled articles in PNAS are publicly … Continue reading →

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ARL on PRISM and suggestions for action

Posted on September 6, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has blogged Association of Research Libraries on PRISM. The actual document (AAP PR Campaign against Open Access and Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Update re the PRISM Coalition) is relatively small and worth looking at. My immediate … Continue reading →

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Wiley and eMolecules: Unacceptable

Posted on September 6, 2007 by pm286

Today I received the following unsolicted eMail from Klaus Gubernator of eMolecules and Wiley, which I regard as unacceptable, both morally and legally. At one stage I was investigating a collaboration with eMolecules – now I shall not go near … Continue reading →

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Thank you again OUP – other publishers take note

Posted on September 5, 2007 by pm286

I am delighted to report that OUP has responded rapidly to my concern about charging for Author-pays Open Access papers which are intended to be free to read and free to re-use non-commercially for all: Kirsty Luff Says: September 5th, … Continue reading →

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ACS: The Author-pays AND Reader-pays model

Posted on September 5, 2007 by pm286

Two months ago I reviewed the hybrid offerings for “openness” from major publishers. In Author Choice in Chemistry at ACS – and elsewhere? I reviewed the ACS’s policy and found that they gave the paying author a very poor product. … Continue reading →

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Hybrid OA: Author Choice at ACS

Posted on September 5, 2007 by pm286

Steve Bachrach has been a long-time supporter of new approaches in scientific publishing. He started the Internet Journal of Chemistry (which sadly failed to gain traction – ahead of its time). Here he comments on the ACS’s hybrid OA scheme. … Continue reading →

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Thank you OUP for not supporting PRISM

Posted on September 5, 2007 by pm286

I am delighted to report the reply from Martin Richardson of OUP about PRISM: Martin Richardson Says: September 5th, 2007 at 3:41 pm eDear Professor Murray-RustIn your recent ‘Open Letter to Oxford University Press’, dated 2nd September 2007, you request … Continue reading →

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