DOAJ Humanities and Social Science Journals

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Feb, 2010
A new study showed that 78% of the social science and humanities journals listed in the DOAJ are not indexed in any of five major SSH journal indices:  the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH), and Agence pour l’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (AERES).
http://www.cybergeo.eu/index22862.html

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PubMed: how to find articles that are free online

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Feb, 2010

* 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

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Journals Using Open Journal Systems by Continent

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Feb, 2010

From:  

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

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Open Access Journals indexed by Web of Science

Posted by Celia Walter | 6 Jan, 2010

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


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Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

Posted by Celia Walter | 3 Oct, 2009

A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard.

http://dash.harvard.edu/

From Internet Resources Newsletter, October, 2009

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"The Bodleian's treasures, available to all"

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Mar, 2009

In 2004, Google began a partnership with Oxford University Library to scan mostly 19th century public domain books from its Bodleian library. Five years on, we're delighted to announce the end of this phase of our scanning with Oxford, our first European partner. Together, we have digitized and made available on Google Book Search many hundreds of thousands of public domain books from the Bodleian and other Oxford libraries, representing the bulk of their available public domain content." - Inside Google Book Search

Peter Scott's Library blog

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Yale Courses: YouTube

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Mar, 2009
Yale Courses: YouTube
This YouTube Channel is maintained by Yale University. It provides free acess to an online collection of film clips and videos of lectures and courses courses taught by staff at Yale University. These cover a range of subject areas including literature, philosophy, politics, psychology and religious studies. Most courses are at an introductory undergraduate level. The video materials are in many cases linked to online course available via the Open Yale OpenCourseWare website, a link to which is provided. Users should consult the latter for information on the course objectives, plus transcripts and reading lists. Copyright and technical information is displayed. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.youtube.com/yalecourses

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More on AcademicEarth: Academic Earth Aggregates Video Lectures

Posted by Celia Walter | 6 Mar, 2009

A new online portal called Academic Earth has aggregated the video lectures available from universities such as MIT, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley. According to The Bivings Report they plan to roll out many social features for users over the next couple of months. Another good place to look for open courseware and lecture materials is the Open Courseware Consortium where you can browse or Google across the collections of the 200 international universities who provide OCW.

From iLibrarian blog

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Dutch East India Company

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009
Dutch East India Company
This article on the Dutch East India Company is from the suite 101 website, which collects good articles on academic subjects. It is a useful source of information for students. The Dutch East India Company was an important joint stock company and a new kind of venture. It helped the Netherlands to expand commercially worldwide and was part of the Dutch Golden Age. From Intute.ac.uk
http://dutch-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/dutch_east_india_company

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LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group Video Archive

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Sep, 2008
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has hundreds of different research units, and the Information Systems and Innovations Group recently joined with other departments to form the new Department of Management. Both academic units have sponsored a wide range of guest speakers and scholars over the years, and this website lets interested parties watch these talks at their leisure. All told, there are over twenty five talks currently available, and they include Ricky Burdett's talk on "Social Aspects of Urban Form", Leopoldina Fortunati's "Discussing the Meaning of the Mobile Phone", and Danny Quah's "Digital Goods and New Economy". Visitors can also chime in with their two cents via the weblog discussion thread that resides under each video. [KMG]
Scout Report

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems//newsAndEvents/videoArchive.htm

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Directory of Open Access Journals updated

Posted by Celia Walter | 8 Sep, 2008

"Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 3614 journals in the directory. Currently 1249 journals are searchable at article level. 208756 articles are included".

Peter Scott's library blog

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20 Websites for Free E-Books

Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Aug, 2008

Hongkiat has compiled a list of 20 of the best Web destinations which offer free e-books which includes 15 additional briefly suggested sites, and reader-contributed recommendations in the comments. If you haven’t had enough with these, you could check out the 22 e-book websites listed in 80 Online Resources for Book Lovers, or if you’re on the fence about the value of e-books, head over to read the 30 Benefits of Ebooks.

iLibrarian blog

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70+ Open Courseware Resources

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Aug, 2008

Christina Laun at CollegeDegrees.com has compiled The Ultimate Guide to Using Open Courseware: 70+ Apps, Search Engines and Resources for Free Learning. Her annotated list of resources are divided into the following categories:

  • Search Engines and Directories
  • Open Courseware Collections
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • eBooks
  • Educational TV
  • Resources, Articles and Guides
iLibrarian blog

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UNESCO. Open Training Platform

Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Jul, 2008
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added a new partner to its Open Training Platform (press release). The Open Training Platform is a collaborative tool to share and promote “open” training materials. The posted materials are free and accessible for non-commercial purposes such as teaching, learning and research. Categories cover the many aspects of UNESCO's programme, and include conversational language courses, information management, and conflict prevention. RSS feeds available for all new content, or specific topics, e.g. ethics or environment.  UN Pulse Permanent Link: UNESCO's Open Training Platform

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Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation

Posted by Celia Walter | 5 Jun, 2008

Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation is a new peer-reviewed OA journal sponsored by the Sense Lab.  The inaugural issue is undated but now online.

What is research-creation?  From the about page:

Inflexions...invite[s] writing and/or other forms of expression actively exploring such issues as: (inter/trans/non) disciplinarity; the emergence of new modes of collaboration; micropolitics and the life and death of institutions; creativity, subjectivity and collectivity in cultural production; the ethics of aesthetics; the aesthetic as ethics. The goal is to promote experimental practices combining research and creation in such a way as to foster symbiotic links between philosophical inquiry, technological innovation, artistic production, and social and political engagement. Of continuing concern will be how these efforts may renew and recast relations between the concrete and the abstract, perception and conception, the body and technology...

Open Access News 

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