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Routledge has announced its latest free access campaign, Access All Areas, offering free online access to its complete range of Area Studies journals for six weeks, available from 3 November to 16 December 2011 inclusive. Access All Areas incorporates more than 150 journals within the Area Studies classification, with 30 additional titles now included such as Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Journal of Asian Public Policy and Chinese Journal of Communication which publish a significant amount of research that is specific to a particular region.

• Area Studies (156) News
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  • American Studies (14)
  • Asian Studies (53)
  • Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies (15)
  • European Studies (37)
  • Middle East Studies (17)

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From Peter Scott's Library blog

 

 

...The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.

Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.

The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665.  Henry Oldenburg – Secretary of the Royal Society and first Editor of the publication – ensured that it was “licensed by the council of the society, being first reviewed by some of the members of the same”, thus making it the first ever peer-reviewed journal.

Philosophical Transactions had to overcome early setbacks including plague, the Great Fire of London and even the imprisonment of Oldenburg, but against the odds the publication survived to the present day.  Its foundation would eventually be recognised as one of the most pivotal moments of the scientific revolution.

...Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment.  And nestling amongst these illustrious papers, readers willing to delve a little deeper into the archive may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution – including accounts of monstrous calves, grisly tales of students being struck by lightning, and early experiments on to how to cool drinks “without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Niter, and That at Any Time of the Year.”

...The move is being made as part of the Royal Society’s ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing.  Opening of the archive is being timed to coincide with Open Access Week, and also comes soon after the Royal Society announced its first ever fully open access journal, Open Biology.

From a Royal Society Announcement

Direct to Searchable Archive
The oldest publication in the database dates back to January 1665.

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 a Video Journal for Biological and Medical Research

 

 

From PhilBradley's weblog:

JoVE: What is it?

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.

 

JoVE: Rapid Knowledge Transfer

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) was established as a new tool in life science publication and communication, with participation of scientists from leading research institutions. JoVE takes advantage of video technology to capture and transmit the multiple facets and intricacies of life science research. Visualization greatly facilitates the understanding and efficient reproduction of both basic and complex experimental techniques, thereby addressing two of the biggest challenges faced by today's life science research community: i) low transparency and poor reproducibility of biological experiments and ii) time and labor-intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.

JoVE: Addressing Complexity

The complexity and breadth of life science research has increased exponentially in recent years. Research progress and the translation of findings from the bench to clinical therapies relies on the rapid transfer of knowledge both within the research community and the general public. Written word and static picture-based traditional print journals are no longer sufficient to accurately transmit the intricacies of modern research.

 

Indianjournals.com
This site is maintained by Divan Enterprises. It provides information and tables of contents from several hundred interdisciplinary journals published in India. Registration is free of charge and allows users to set up tables of contents alerts and search the database for references and abstracts of journal articles. Full text access is for subscribers only. Although individual articles can also be bought online. Those interested in ejournal content might like to try the free MedInd site a project of National Databases of Indian Medical Journals (Indian Medlars Center) which provides full text access to peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature. Currently available are 77 titles from 1985 onwards.

From http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/

Cambridge Journals is celebrating recent achievements by making all its online journals content from 2009 and 2010 free for six weeks. Cambridge has enjoyed accelerating success in recent years with increasing numbers of journals published, improved impact factors and multiple enhancements made to Cambridge Journals Online. Usage has significantly increased with the digitisation of new and archive content, and more people are now able to access Cambridge Journals than ever before. Currently over 1.3 million articles are downloaded from CJO every month. To celebrate these successes, and to reach out to new customers, Cambridge Journals has announced that it is making all online content published during 2009 and 2010 free between 15 July and 30 August 2011

From Peter Scott's Library blog

Scientific Reports and success of PLoS ONE spell trouble for specialist journals. Paul Jump reports

The launch by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) of a high-volume open-access journal spanning the natural sciences is being tipped to accelerate the extinction of subscription fees in science publishing, and could also prompt the closure of many specialist journals.

Scientific Reports will launch this summer and will cover biology, chemistry, the earth sciences and physics.

Like the Public Library of Science's PLoS ONE journal, Scientific Reports will be entirely open access and will publish every submission deemed by a faster peer-review process to be technologically sound - including those reporting useful negative results.

The importance of articles will be left to readers to judge via comments and metrics such as how often papers are downloaded, emailed and blogged about.

At $1,350 (£890), Scientific Reports' article-processing charge will be the same as that levied by PLoS ONE - although it is set to rise next year to $1,700.

...[more]

http://www.nature.com/scientificreports

From THE

This blog exists so that people may anonymously post links to peer-reviewed scientific papers that been liberated from behind journal-subscription paywalls. Use comments in the 'Requests for papers' threads to post requests for papers, and comments in the 'Papers available' threads to post links to the requested pdfs.
http://scienceleaks.blogspot.com/

Introducing Science Leaks

 This venture was triggered by the many people complaining that they couldn't evaluate the 'arseniclife' paper because the journal Science only allowed access to its abstract, not to the full paper or its supplementary online materials.  In response, Science temporarily opened access to people wiling to register at their site, but when the month ends the barrier will go right back up.

This access problem applies to the great majority of scientific papers.  The public pays for the research, but the results are locked behind journal-subscription paywalls, accessible only to people with personal subscriptions or affiliated with major research libraries, or to those willing to pay $20-$40 for access to individual articles.

Most researchers agree that this legacy of the pre-internet days is morally wrong and unfair to everyone.  Those of us who can afford it pay thousands of dollars to the journals to make our own articles open access.  And many of us post PDFs of our own papers on our personal web sites.  But these aren't easy to find, especially for people not working in the field.

So I've set up a web site called Science Leaks (actually a Blogger blog) to serve as a clearing house, providing links to the papers people want to read.  Anyone who's looking for access to a paper can simply post the paper's information as a comment, and anyone who knows where a pdf is available can then post the link.  (Once a link is posted I'll remove the request comment, to keep things tidy.)

This is just a stopgap solution.  In the short term, if there's sufficient interest someone will (I hope) help me to set up a better site.  But the real solution is to change from having subscribers pay publication costs to having granting agencies pay them, either directly or as a line item in grant budgets.

From CW : a comment on the above post on ScienceLeaks refered to this Google Getarticles Group

Finding journal articles is often difficult. If you're looking for one, just email the citation to getarticles@googlegroups.com and our team of volunteers will try to find it for you.

If you like finding journal articles, please join the list or follow our RSS feed and reply to people's requests.

http://groups.google.com/group/getarticles

 

The African Journal Archive is a project of Sabinet Gateway, a non-profit organisation promoting and supporting library and information services in Africa. The project is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Browse through the collection without formulating a specific search.

Advanced Search - using more options, making your searches more precise and getting more useful results.

From an Abstract:

This work is aimed at testing the most trational bibliometric indicator, Impact Factor, and Open Access journals. It is focused mainly on the JCR Science edition, because of the largest coverage in OA journals (about 5%). OA journals rank in the top fifty percentiles with a 38,62% share. The research is to be continued on the incoming JCR 2010 edition.

Presentation By: Elena Giglia, University of Turin

In ELPUB 2010 – Publishing in the networked world: Transforming the nature of communication, Helsinki (Finland), 16-18 June 2010 (via E-LIS)

Access the Presentation (62 Slides; PDF)

Source: ELPUB (via e-LIS) via Resourceshelf.com

The Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education is an online peer-reviewed journal, the central aim of which is to promote improved practice by encouraging informed debate into pedagogic and related matters in higher education. Each issue comprises of an editorial, papers from all disciplines and subject areas covering higher education policy and management, and learning and teaching (including technology-enhanced learning); and developments, news and reviews. Individual papers are available as PDF downloads. http://jarhe.research.glam.ac.uk/

From Intute.ac.uk

* Jim Till showed how to use the PubMed Advanced Search option to estimate the number of papers based on research by a given funder are free online.  (His immediate purpose was to estimate how many CIHR-funded papers, which ought to be OA, are actually OA.)
http://tillje.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/preliminary-data-about-cihr-supported-publications-cited-in-pubmed/

* Heather Morrison showed how to use the PubMed Advanced Search option to estimate the number of papers published in a given journal are free online.  In a separate post she showed how TA medical journals with green policies (allowing authors to self-archive) can measure or estimate the number of their articles on deposit in OA repositories.
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/calculating-compliance-with-nih-public.html
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-subscription-journals-calculating.html

 

From SPARC Open Access Newsletter

From:  

http://mallikarjundora.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/journals-using-open-journal-systems-by-continent/

Web of Science, covers the contents of 494 peer-reviewed open access journals. That amounts to 4.5% of the roughly 11,000 journals covered by the service, also known by its subsets -- Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index.

Link to list of these titles:

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/206168.html

... A new movement is afoot to improve on this system, and ResearchBlogging.org is proud to be a part of it.  Instead of assigning ratings to entire journals, “article-level metrics” strives to assess the importance of each individual article published. The highly respected journal publisher PLoS began its article-level metrics initiative with several basic tools in March of 2009. But as PLoS ONE publisher Peter Binfield explained in a recent presentation, their plan included rolling out several more advanced features over the course of the year. Today marks the launch of one such tool, a partnership with ResearchBlogging.org to identify—nearly in real time—well-considered blog posts written about their articles...[More] From Researchblogging.

The Singapore Journal of Library and Information Management converted to Open Access, after 37 years of TA publication.
http://singaporelibrariesbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/las-journal-goes-green-and-open-access/