Scirus: Digital Archives

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Nov, 2007

Scirus

Digital Archives consists of a subset of valuable collections found on the Web from institutional repositories, including preprint (pre-view), postprints (post-review) and reprints (published) of scientific papers, conference papers and posters, theses, reports, books and book chapters, magazines articles, web products, project descriptions, and other published or unpublished documents.

The collections currently covered in Digital Archives are: National Aerospace Laboratories, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Australian National University, Università di Bologna, University of Calgary, Cornell University, Cranfield University, University of Delaware, Universität Dortmund, E-LIS, Erasmus Universiteit, Flinders University, Universiteit Gent, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Glasgow, Göteborg University, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Hokkaido University, University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Kanazawa University, Kumamoto University, Kyushu University, University of Leicester, Universiteit Leiden, University College London, Loughborough University, Lund University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Malmö University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nagoya University, University of New Mexico, Ohio State University Knowledge Bank, OpenMed@NIC, Open Research Online, University of Oregon Scholars’ Bank, Oregon State University, Universidade Federal Do Parana, Pascal Eprints, PhilSci Archive, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, University of Rochester, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, University of Southampton, University of Strathclyde, Texas A&M University, Tsukuba University, Waseda University, University of Washington and White Rose Consortium.

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Open Access?

Posted by Celia Walter | 19 Oct, 2007

When Is Open Access Not Open Access?

Not all of the confusion about open access that currently permeates the scholarly publishing industry is likely to be intentional (at least not all of it); much arises from a genuine misunderstanding of open access by funders, authors, editors, and publishers alike. However, no matter how unintentional such obfuscation might be, it is detrimental to the free exchange and use of scholarly research. It is now time for all publishers to tighten the definition and application of open access and be clearer about the uses and restrictions applied to their articles. Open access is a term that should only be used when the license permits both free access and unrestricted derivative use (and gives appropriate attribution). Authors and funders need to be much more aware of the small print before inadvertently signing away their rights and those of their readers and, even worse, paying good money for the privilege.

Source: PLoS Biology

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WorldWideScience.org

Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Jun, 2007
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway - accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases. Subsequent versions of WorldWideScience.org will offer access to additional sources as well as enhanced features. (More)

Open Access - some pointers

Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Apr, 2007
From the Heriot Watt Library blog Spineless?

http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/open-access-some-pointers/
with an update at: http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/open-access-an-update

OpenDOAR : open access repositories

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Mar, 2007

OpenDOAR : the directory of open access repositories

OpenDOAR Africa

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