The transnational open access movement: paper to be presented at the Global...
My proposal for the Global Communication Association's 7th annual conference this November in Ottawa has been accepted! The Global Communication Association is the founder of the innovative suite that...
View ArticleAcademic libraries could fund a fully open access journal system - and save...
The title expresses the gist of my article, Economics of scholarly communication in transition, published today in First Monday. Abstract Academic library budgets are the primary source of revenue for...
View ArticleOpen access is global unrestricted access
This post is in response to an initiative to digitize Canadian historical materials ironically "leaked" on Bibliocracy. This leak describes a plan by Canadian and Library and Archives Canada to...
View ArticleComments on DOAJ proposed new selection criteria
The Directory of Open Access Journals has posted a draft of their new selection criteria and is requesting comments by July 15, 2013. Kudos to DOAJ for taking this open, transparent approach to their...
View ArticleLIS publisher Emerald: profit, not knowledge-sharing?
As sent to various lists, June 17, 2013. Update June 17 - comment from Issac Gilman inserted into the message for context. LIS publisher Emerald has introduced a 24-month embargo on authors whose...
View ArticleOutsell Open Access Report: missing the main point or are governments really...
The Outsell Open Access Report is an interesting development in itself - industry looking at open access as a market rather than as a threat, and some of the information in the report is very useful....
View ArticleThe Springer sub-prime scholarly publishing deal?
Reuters recently announced that a group called BC Partners will buy Springer for 3.3 billion euros. Of this, 2.5 billion is debt - backed by Barclays, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Nomura...
View ArticleJune 30, 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access coming soon
The June 30th edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access will be issued just a little bit later than usual as I'm moving to a new province, starting a new job and opening up my account at the uO...
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June 30, 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Kudos to the Directory of Open Access Journals for an oustanding second quarter! In the past few months, DOAJ has added 912 titles for a total of 9,759 journals. That's a net growth rate of over 10...
View ArticleOur fair deal for a fair digital future
Our Fair Deal http://ourfairdeal.org/ is crowdsourcing ideas for what we the people want to see in trade agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) currently being negotiated. Go to the Our...
View ArticleOpen Access class 2013
Some of the final projects from my open access class of 2013 at the University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archival and Information Studies are now posted on the course blog.
View ArticleCreative Commons and Open Access research: some next steps
Rosie Redfield has posted results of a survey on author perspectives of CC-BY licenses on RRResearch, along with her own comments. This is a useful addition to a question that is very much in need of...
View ArticleDFATD Development Data widget generator
The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) Development Data widget generator is a tool that anyone can use to create a widget for a website that will search the DFATD aid data....
View ArticleCanada's Action Plan on Open Government Consultation - my comment
Following is the comment that I just posted to Clement's consultation on the Action Plan on Open Government, currently queued for moderation. Good progress has been made on the Action Plan. However,...
View ArticleThe Elsevier "open access" / exclusive license to publish hybrid
Elsevier has come up with a twist on open access licensing that should give pause to advocates of equating open access with particular Creative Commons licenses such as CC-BY, that is, a version of...
View ArticleThe commerical overlords of scholarship rewrite copyright licenses to suit...
As just posted to the openscience list:What can or cannot be done under CC-BY may quickly become a moot point - according to Elsevier Connect, "the International Association of Scientific, Technical...
View ArticleThoughts on transforming peer review processes: lessons from funding agency...
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is in the process of developing a new, streamlined peer review support system. The development process includes testing IT solutions for coordinating peer...
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Open Access Week 2013: Heather's schedule
Open Access Week is coming up October 21 - 27, 2013 everywhere. Here is my schedule for OA Week this year so far - in brief, emerging research at uO on Monday, October 21, and Whose scholarship? Our...
View ArticleNew course blog: information policy and government publications
Just created: a new blog for my course this fall, information policy and government publications, ISI 5164. This is a seminar-based course with minimal lectures, so posting is likely to be light. The...
View ArticleBeginning of the great California Community Colleges sell-out?
All of the California Community Colleges now require that all works funded by the Chancellor's Office be licensed as CC-BY. There is some good news in this, in that these works will now be much more...
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