The UMass Libraries have submitted comments to the NSF for its 2017-2018 Strategic Plan update. (Further reading: Summary of current Strategic Plan, and full text of current Strategic Plan, published in 2014.) Re: Comments on Strategic Plan, 2017-18 Update Dear National Science Foundation, Thank you for providing this opportunity to comment on the 2017-18 update…
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Federal Agency Open Access Mandates
Some resources for campus folks on the ongoing roll-out of US government agency open access policies: Crowd-sourced librarian spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PYOhBh6bglh6BkQFlpvNLOwlpzvQyguWAG8AkQMtU0s/edit#gid=0 ARL’s review and links: http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/public-access-policies/federally-funded-research/2696-white-house-directive-on-public-access-to-federally-funded-research-and-data#.VQwHkEs1TQR Columbia University list of brief descriptions: http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-access/public-access-mandates-for-federally-funded-research/…
open access – federal policies
The federal “open access” policy rollouts continue. The Department of Defense put their proposal out a couple of days ago; they will develop their own system (a la PubMed): DoD’s repository, the Defense Technical Information Center or DTIC will create and maintain a system for the long-term preservation and access to the DoD funded peer-reviewed…
WMUA interview for Open Access Week, 2014
Open Access Week interview of me by Despina Durand on campus radio station, WMUA, was posted online here: https://wmuanews.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/the-umass-libraries-celebrate-open-access-week-an-interview-with-laura-quilter/…
open access math journals
New math prize winner might use prize money to set up #openaccess math journals. Hear, hear! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/us/the-multimillion-dollar-minds-of-5-mathematical-masters.html…
Elsevier still charging for access to open access articles
Oh, #Elsevier. STILL charging for #openaccess articles, two years after you were caught doing it. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/21/major-publisher-elsevier-caught-charging-money-for-open-access-science-articles/ … @ElsevierConnect…
Open Access Added to 2014 Omnibus Appropriations
Open access added to 2014 Omnibus Appropriations (Jan. 16, 2014) – Following on the White House/OSTP Open Access Directive, the appropriations bill passed in January 2014 included funding for open access for the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health & Human Services. Read more at the Association of Research Libraries’ SPARC and the Electronic Frontier…
RIP Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 – Open Access Activist
R.I.P. Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 Aaron Swartz, an open access activist, committed suicide on Friday, January 10, 2013. He was facing a 13-count indictment from the US Dept. of Justice for breaking into JStor, an academic articles database, although JStor had dropped all charges. Academics worldwide have begun releasing their papers as a tribute, posting the…
Open Access AND Open Use
Open Access AND Open Use / Jan. 6, 2013 – Cameron Neylon, “Science Publishing: Open Access Must Enable Open Use”, Nature 492, pp. 348-349 (Dec. 20, 2012). Open access is not enough – researchers need to be able to index and have other reuse rights to scholarly literature….
ResearchGate litigation settled
ResearchGate and ACS & Elsevier have settled the copyright lawsuits the publishers filed in Germany and the US. The gist of the settlement: At the point of upload, the ResearchGate platform will check rights information for ACS and Elsevier published content. ResearchGate will then immediately determine how the content can be shared on its site….