Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] List of links to news and commentary about Plan S

2019-02-10 Thread Peter Suber
g for OATP), here's how to start or see what's involved. bit.ly/oatp-start-tagging Best, Peter Peter Suber bit.ly/petersuber On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:49 AM Danny Kingsley wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Because it is useful to me, and presumably therefore to everyone else too,

[GOAL] Journal-flipping report open for public comments

2016-03-28 Thread Peter Suber
f you want to share this draft with others who might have comments, please do so in the next few weeks. Thanks, Peter Peter Suber Director, Office for Scholarly Communication Widener Library G-20 Harvard University bit.ly/petersuber ___ GOAL mailing

[GOAL] Journal-flipping report open for public comments

2016-03-15 Thread Peter Suber
publication. Home page for the journal-flipping project https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/programs/journal-flipping/ Thanks, Peter Peter Suber bit.ly/petersuber ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: a chronology about open access

2015-06-24 Thread Peter Suber
Thanks for the correction, Hélène. Yes, I started my timeline in 2001 or so. In 2009, I gave stopped trying to maintain it myself and turned it over to the Open Access Directory for communal updating. Best, Peter Peter Suber bit.ly/petersuber On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:12 AM

[GOAL] Fwd: RFP for journal-flipping project

2015-04-16 Thread Peter Suber
Please consider this opportunity for yourself, and please forward it to others who may be interested. Thanks, Peter Peter Suber bit.ly/petersuber ​-- cut here -- ​ Request for Proposal (RFP): Writing a literature review on methods for converting subscription-based

[GOAL] Fwd: SPARC Statement in Response to Dept. of Energy Public Access Plan

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from SPARC. --Peter Suber.] -- Forwarded message -- From: Sparc Media sparcme...@arl.org Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:05 PM Subject: SPARC Statement in Response to Dept. of Energy Public Access Plan To: me...@sparc.arl.org *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Contact: Ranit

[GOAL] Re: The Journal Publisher Lobby in the UK Netherlands: Part I

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Suber
publishing a success, the enthusiastic cooperation of the professional publishing companies active on the scientific market is highly desirable. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ISU-2011-0622 Peter Peter Suber bit.ly/petersuber On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wouter.gerrit

[GOAL] Fwd: Berlin OA conference: registration for remaining seats

2013-10-16 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Georg Botz. --Peter Suber.] As of today, the registration for the Berlin 11 Open Access conference is open to the public. Because of the special nature of this year's conference, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration, a large fraction of participants has

[GOAL] Re: OA declarations

2013-09-16 Thread Peter Suber
Also see the Open Access Directory list of declarations in support of OA. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Declarations_in_support_of_OA Note that OAD is a wiki and welcomes additions and corrections from the OA community. Peter Peter Suber bit.ly/petersuber On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:15

[GOAL] June 2013 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2013-06-01 Thread Peter Suber
issues are all open access, of course. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter Peter Suber Senior Researcher, SPARC Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project

[GOAL] March 2013 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2013-03-02 Thread Peter Suber
are all open access, of course. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter Peter Suber Senior Researcher, SPARC Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director

[GOAL] Major new bill mandating open access introduced in Congress

2013-02-14 Thread Peter Suber
actions to support OA to federally-funded research. I'll pull the series of posts together for an article in the March issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Happy Valentines-BOAI day! Peter Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society

[GOAL] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Backlash against my blog

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.] Colleagues, ** ** I am the author of Scholarly Open Access http://scholarlyoa.com/, a blog that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent journals. ** ** I'm writing

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

2012-12-13 Thread Peter Suber
70% of OA journals (not articles) charge no fees at all. But that that number will very likely approach zero under the new RCUK policy, at least when publishing articles by RCUK-funded authors. Peter Peter Suber bit.ly/suber-gplus On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Richard Poynder ri

[GOAL] December 2012 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Suber
How to subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter and discussion forum. http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan The current and back issues are all open access, of course. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter Peter Suber Senior Researcher, SPARC Director, Harvard

[GOAL] Good practices for university open-access policies

2012-10-17 Thread Peter Suber
-access policies http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies Stuart Shieber Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University http://www.seas.harvard.edu/~shieber Peter Suber Director of the Harvard Open

[GOAL] How to stay on top of open-access developments

2012-10-05 Thread Peter Suber
introduction to TagTeam, our new open-source platform. http://bit.ly/tagteam-about And here's the OATP home page. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project Peter Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society Senior Researcher, SPARC bit.ly

[GOAL] How to stay on top of open-access developments

2012-09-17 Thread Peter Suber
to the old OATP feeds from Connotea.) If you want to go beyond following OATP feeds as a reader, and help us construct them as a tagger, see the details in our transition handout. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam Thanks, Peter Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access

[GOAL] For users of the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)

2012-09-15 Thread Peter Suber
to TagTeam). http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project Best, Peter Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society Senior Researcher, SPARC bit.ly/suber-gplus My latest book: Open Access, MIT Press, 2012 bit.ly/oa-book

[GOAL] Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online

2012-09-12 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from the Open Society Foundations and SPARC. --Peter Suber.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2012 CONTACT: Andrea Higginbotham, SPARC, and...@arl.org; 202-296-2296 Amy Weil, Open Society Foundations, aw...@sorosny.org; 212-548-0381 Scientists, Foundations, Libraries

[GOAL] September 2012 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2012-09-02 Thread Peter Suber
/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter Peter Suber Senior Researcher, SPARC Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge bit.ly/suber-gplus

[GOAL] Re: Finding a business model for a growing Open Access Journal

2012-07-19 Thread Peter Suber
See the list of OA journal business models at the Open Access Directory. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models Peter Peter Suber gplus.to/petersuber On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: I am forwarding a message from the OKFN's

[GOAL] Re: Dreadful Daily Mail article on Open Access

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Suber
Act and Federal Research Public Access Act. (The article covers many other topics; for this particular argument, see Section 1.11.) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-12.htm#rwafrpaa Peter Peter Suber gplus.to/petersuber On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Eric F. Van de Velde

[GOAL] World Bank Announces Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge

2012-04-10 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from the World Bank. --Peter Suber.] News Release 2012/379/EXTOP *World Bank Announces Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge * *Launches Open Knowledge Repository* WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 - The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy

[GOAL] World Bank Announces Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge

2012-04-10 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from the World Bank.  --Peter Suber.] News Release  2012/379/EXTOP World Bank Announces Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge  Launches Open Knowledge Repository WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 - The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy

[GOAL] Helping the Open Access Directory

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Suber
to research, launched in 2008 and maintained by the OA community at large. To date it has over 2.5 million unique views, and many of our technical questions will concern our growing pains. If you're interested, please reply offlist to Robin Peek robin.peek at simmons.edu and/or Peter Suber psuber

[GOAL] Helping the Open Access Directory

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Suber
to research, launched in 2008 and maintained by the OA community at large. To date it has over 2.5 million unique views, and many of our technical questions will concern our growing pains.  If you're interested, please reply offlist to Robin Peek robin.p...@simmons.edu and/or Peter Suber psu

[GOAL] 24 New Co-sponsors Added to FRPAA!

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Heather Joseph. --Peter Suber.] Delighted to let you all know that fresh on the heels of yesterday?s well-attended Congressional briefing on public access, 24 new bipartisan co-sponsors have officially been added to the roster of supporters for FRPAA! The list reflects

[GOAL] 24 New Co-sponsors Added to FRPAA!

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Heather Joseph.  --Peter Suber.] Delighted to let you all know that fresh on the heels of yesterday’s well-attended Congressional briefing on public access, 24 new bipartisan co-sponsors have officially been added to the roster of supporters for FRPAA!   The list reflects

[GOAL] Public comments on the RCUK's draft new OA policy

2012-03-14 Thread Peter Suber
in the subject line.      Peter Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society Senior Researcher, SPARC gplus.to/petersuber  [ Part 2: Attached Text ] ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

[GOAL] Rockefeller University Press director opposes RWA

2012-01-13 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Mike Rossner, Executive Director of Rockefeller University Press.  --Peter Suber.] January 13, 2012   Representative Carolyn Maloney 2332 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515-3214   Dear Representative Maloney,   I am the Executive Director of The Rockefeller University Press

[GOAL] MIT Press does not support Research Works Act

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Suber
position on the Research Works Act. Kudos and profound thanks to Ellen Faran and MIT Press for their leadership on this issue. Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society Senior Researcher, SPARC gplus.to/petersuber [ Part 2: Attached Text

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Harvard response to the White House RFI on OA to publicly funded research

2012-01-05 Thread Peter Suber
Hi Steve:  I'm blogging about the new anti-OA bill at Google+.  Please join the conversation and spread the word.https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/QYAH1jSJG6L       Peter Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet

Open Access Directory opens for Open Access Week event details

2010-09-07 Thread Peter Suber
to report that this summer OAD passed the milestone of one million visitors.  Thank you everyone for your support.  Robin Peek and Peter Suber, co-founders of OAD http://oad.simmons.edu 

Re: Ranking Web of Repositories: July 2010 Edition

2010-07-11 Thread Peter Suber
-only.  If you offer PDF editions, then also offer XML or HTML editions.      Best,      Peter Peter Suber www.bit.ly/suber -- On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Leslie Carr l...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: On 10 Jul 2010, at 15:37, Peter Suber wrote: For more detail on rich

Re: Ranking Web of Repositories: July 2010 Edition

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Suber
 But since even HTML is superior to PDF for purposes of access and reuse, I self-archive in HTML rather than PDF whenever I can.      Peter Peter Suber www.bit.ly/suber

OA mandate from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. --Peter Suber.] New Open Access Policy for NCAR Research Boulder, Colorado - The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has passed an Open Access policy that requires that all peer-reviewed research published by its

Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Suber
I agree with Alma, Tony, Mike, and others.  This list depends on Stevan's energy and dedication, and would be much less valuable without them.  Peter Suber At 11:08 AM 10/7/2008, you wrote: I agree. Stevan should remain, doing his own inimitable thing, which has been invaluable

January issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2008-01-02 Thread Peter Suber
, of course. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter -- Peter Suber Senior Researcher, SPARC Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Author, Open Access News blog http

September issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2007-09-02 Thread Peter Suber
/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter -- Peter Suber Senior Researcher, SPARC Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Author, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters

July issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2005-07-04 Thread Peter Suber
://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter -- Peter Suber Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ peter.su

Re: PNAS policy on NIH-funded authors

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Suber
funding) to self-archive their articles in their institutional repositories immediately upon publication. Peter Peter Suber Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http

December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Suber
/fos/newsletter/12-02-04.htm How to subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter and discussion forum http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html The archive of back issues is open to non-subscribers http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter -- Peter Suber Open

Re: Victory for the NIH open access plan in the House

2004-11-23 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from ARL and SPARC. --Peter Suber.] FROM: Prue Adler, ARL and Rick Johnson, SPARC RE: Congress Reaffirms Support for NIH Proposal to Enhance Public Access to Research Information We are delighted to report that Congress again affirmed its support for NIH to enhance public access

Re: Evolving Publisher Copyright Policies On Self-Archiving

2004-11-03 Thread Peter Suber
%), self-archive preprint + corrigenda and inform the journal. (4b) If the journal responds to (4a) with an objection, negotiate or remove. (Peter [Suber], if my memory does not fail me, you too have recommended something along the lines of 4a/4b: Is there a URL?) Peter Suber has since

Victory for the NIH open access plan in the House

2004-09-10 Thread Peter Suber
If the Open Access News blog is so full of news these days that you can't read every item, then let me draw special attention to this one from yesterday: Victory for the NIH plan in the House By an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 388-13 the House of Representatives tonight adopted the

Southampton scientists welcome Parliamentary report on academic publishing

2004-07-21 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from the University of Southampton. --Peter.] 20 July 2004 Southampton scientists welcome Parliamentary report on academic publishing Researchers at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science have welcomed the conclusions of the report into the

Another major Australian OA initiative

2004-07-06 Thread Peter Suber
From Open Access News Blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_07_04_fosblogarchive.html#a108908328421964239 Another major Australian OA initiative Australia's National Scholarly Communications Forum (NSCF) http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/overview.htm and Department of Education,

Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

2004-06-07 Thread Peter Suber
AmSci Subject Thread: The Special Case of Law Reviews (Nov., 2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3192.html Forwarding from Dan Hunter of the Wharton School. If you remember back to November 2003, Dan wrote an open letter to the California Law Review (CLR) asking it

Re: Directory of Open Access Journals

2004-06-04 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Lund University. --Peter.] Lund University Libraries Head Office Director of Libraries Lars Björnshauge Lund, June 3rd 2004 For immediate release LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES LAUNCHES PHASE 2 Of THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS - NOW WITH ARTICLE LEVEL SEARCH Lund, Sweden

Re: India Open Access Workshops: Press Release

2004-05-24 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Subbiah Arunachalam. --Peter.] Workshops on Open Access in India Two workshops on open access and institutional archives were organized by Subbiah Arunachalam at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, during 2-4 and 6-8 May 2004, with a view to developing a cadre of

Workshop on Open Access

2004-03-21 Thread Peter Suber
M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION Third Cross Street, Taramani Instituional Area, Chennai 600 113 Tel: 044 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax: 044 2254 1319 Workshop on Open Access Overview All scientists need to publish their findings. Indeed, research is incomplete as long as it remains

Re: How many journals sell authors Open Access by the article?

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Suber
for authors who cannot pay. http://www3.oup.co.uk/nar/special/14/default.html Peter -- Peter Suber Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu

SciDev.Net's Special Section on Open access and Scientific Publishing

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from SciDev.Net. --Peter.] The Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is pleased to announce its new quick guide on science publishing (www.scidev.net/scipub). Concentrating on the issue of how developing-country scientists can access the latest scientific research, the

Message from Declan Butler, Nature

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Declan Butler at Nature. --Peter.] Nature is to run a web focus on access to the literature from mid March to mid-May. I would very much like to link from the focus to as many position papers that people have made public on this. In particular, many institutions have worked

Re: OAI compliant personal pages

2004-02-14 Thread Peter Suber
Jim, Jean-Claude, and Tim, Don't forget about Kepler, http://kepler.cs.odu.edu:8080/kepler/index.html, software for creating an archivelet or an OAI-compliant archive for the research output of a single person. Kepler runs on Windows 2000/XP, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. Peter Suber

February issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Suber
/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter -- Peter Suber Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ peter.su...@earlham.edu

New channel of support for open-access publishing

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Suber
For immediate release January 14, 2004 For more information, contact: Helen Doyle, Public Library of Science, +1 415.624.1217, hdo...@plos.org or see http://www.plos.org/support. NEW CHANNEL OF SUPPORT FOR OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING Public Library of Science Announces Launch of Institutional

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2004-01-05 Thread Peter Suber
, Peter -- Peter Suber Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ peter.su...@earlham.edu

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2004-01-03 Thread Peter Suber
Jan, Thanks for your comment. I've already argued in public that deposit should not be part of the definition of OA, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-04-03.htm, and there's no need to repeat the arguments here. The same arguments apply to OAI-compliance. The point is a

January issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Suber
I just mailed the January issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month, it takes a close look at open access momentum during 2003, the many-copy problem and many-copy solution, and the gap between the literature directly

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Suber
://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-04-03.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-04-03.htm . Peter _ Peter Suber Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2004-01-01 Thread Peter Suber
At 03:16 PM 12/31/2003 +, Stevan Harnad wrote: The discussion of the Free/Open Access distinction appears to be growing. I see that Peter Suber has posted a reply to the SOAF list, which I will re-post to the Amsci Forum in a moment so I can reply to it on both lists after I have replied

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Suber
I agree with Mike. Here's how I've put it e.g. in http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm. There are two important kinds of access barriers: price barriers and permission barriers. Free online access removes price barriers. Open access removes both price and permission barriers. Do

Open access gaining momentum

2003-12-14 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding a brief excerpt from the current issue of Outsell's e-briefs (not otherwise online). --Peter.] http://content.outsellinc.com/coms2/ebriefs == Outsell's e-briefs December 12, 2003 A Weekly Analysis of Events and Issues Affecting the

December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Suber
Peter -- Peter Suber Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ peter.su...@earlham.edu

November issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2003-11-02 Thread Peter Suber
Subscription info, back issues, discussion forum http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html Subscriptions are free, and the archive of back issues is open to non-subscribers http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter -- Peter Suber Research Professor

Re: Open Letter to Philip Campbell, Editor, Nature

2003-10-29 Thread Peter Suber
At 09:48 AM 10/29/2003 +, you wrote: On 28 Oct 2003 at 17:02, Peter Suber wrote: This elaboration can easily be read to include the author's directory within an institutional repository. but the next faq from Nature says that 'you may not distribute the PDF... on open archives'. So

Re: Open Letter to Philip Campbell, Editor, Nature

2003-10-28 Thread Peter Suber
Stevan, I'm publishing a letter to the editor in _Nature_ and just got the license to sign. I thought you'd like to see a copy (attached). It still gives authors permission to post the work to their own web sites. But it now contains a mini-FAQ explaining this: The licence says I may post

Guide to Institutional Repository Software

2003-10-17 Thread Peter Suber
OSI is pleased to announce the release of the Guide to Institutional Repository Software. The guide describes the five open source, OAI-compliant systems currently available. As many institutions are developing repositories, OSI thought it would be helpful to produce such a guide so that each

Oxford-University-Press/Oxford-University-Eprint-Archive Partnership

2003-10-03 Thread Peter Suber
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OANews/List.html For immediate release: Friday 3 October 2003 OUP supports Oxford University Library Services Open Archives Initiative Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce a partnership with Oxford University Library Services, (OULS) in support

Re: Third World Academy of Sciences and open access

2003-10-02 Thread Peter Suber
.) For more details, see the working group page, http://www.wsis-si.org/si-frame.html. Peter -- Peter Suber Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http

Wellcome Trust statement on open access

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Suber
Reposted from: https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/ A position statement by the Wellcome Trust in support of open access publishing The mission of the Wellcome Trust is to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health. The main output of this research is

Wellcome Trust report on science publishing

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Suber
Re-posted from: https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/ REPORT HIGHLIGHTS SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CONCERNS A new report published today by the UK's leading biomedical research charity reveals that the publishing of scientific research does not operate in the interests of scientists and the

Re: ePrint Repositories

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Suber
http://lists.openlib.org/pipermail/oai-eprints/ [Forwarding at the request of Eugenio Pelizzari. --Peter Suber.] Dear Prof. Suber, I put on the web site of my library a paper on OAI: Harvesting for Disseminating that will be published on the journal The Acquisitions Librarian (in 2005!). I'd

Directory of Open Access Journals

2003-05-12 Thread Peter Suber
LUND UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS May 12, 2003 Lund, Sweden - Lund University Libraries today launches the Directory of Open Access Journals ( DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org ), supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute (

Quick Guide to Eprints from Oxford University Computing Services

2003-03-30 Thread Peter Suber
Excerpted from: http://www.eprints.org/fosblog.php Michael Fraser has written a very useful Quick Guide to Eprints http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/eprints/index.xml for the Oxford University Computing Services web site. For readers new to the concept, this guide is just the right length. Apart from

Anniversary of the BOAI, launch of the BOAI Forum

2003-02-15 Thread Peter Suber
School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University on this project. http://acis.openlib.org/ 9. Free Online Scholarship newsletter, written by Peter Suber, was supported from October 2001-August 2002. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm 10. User's manual for Eprints2, an Open

SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist Resource Guide: Raym Crowe

2003-02-01 Thread Peter Suber
SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist Resource Guide by Raym Crowe http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html Posted to http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html by Peter Suber at 5:31 PM. Excerpts: Institutional repositories complement existing metrics for gauging

Re: Nature's vs. Science's Embargo Policy

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Suber
But Peter Suber was unsuccessful in getting it clarified: (2002) Elsevier's self-archiving policy http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2104.html (The last includes reference to a letter Peter Suber sent to Derk Haank for a clarification of Elsevier self-archiving policy

Re: PLoS Biology

2003-01-04 Thread Peter Suber
://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2212.html] that open-access eprint archiving --as opposed to open-access journals-- had reached its tipping point. I provided six months' worth of evidence to show that its adoption and endorsement are accelerating. Peter Suber -- Peter Suber, Professor

Re: Online Self-Archiving: Distinguishing the Optimal from the Optional

2002-12-17 Thread Peter Suber
Peter -- Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374 Email pet...@earlham.edu Web http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Editor, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ Editor, FOS News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos

Re: UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Suber
are discussed and some methods for minimising these are proposed. Many of the factors that dictate caution in judging individuals by their citations tend to average out when whole departments are compared. Peter -- Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374

Re: The Economist: Publish and perish

2002-11-19 Thread Peter Suber
toll-access science depends on peer-review reform. Peter -- Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374 Email pet...@earlham.edu Web http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Editor, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos

Re: Psychology and self-archiving

2002-11-19 Thread Peter Suber
Christopher Green Stalking the Wild E-Print: A Scout's Impressions of Publicatia Incognita http://www.yorku.ca/christo/papers/stalking.htm a presentation for the upcoming National Communications Association conference (New Orleans, November 22). Four lessons from Green's experience maintaining the

Ariadne, D-Lib and SPARC on Eprint Archives

2002-10-26 Thread Peter Suber
[Excerpts from Free Online Scholarship News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html ] (1) September-October issue of Ariadne is now online. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/ * Andy Powell, 5 step guide to becoming a content provider in the JISC Information Environment

Re: Responses to Walt Crawford's reflections on FOS

2002-10-08 Thread Peter Suber
to produce, they would nevertheless be worth paying for - but it turns out that open access can cost much less than traditional forms of dissemination http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/jbiol.htm Best wishes, Peter -- Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College

Re: Responses to Walt Crawford's reflections on FOS

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Suber
to the arguments for the second half. -- Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374 Email pet...@earlham.edu Web http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Editor, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ Editor, FOS News blog http

Excerpts from: SPARC e-news/August-September 2002

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Suber
Excerpts from *SPARC e-news* August-September 2002 From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc, http://www.sparceurope.org Responses and subscription requests to: ali...@arl.org NB: Registration is still open for October's SPARC-sponsored workshops on

Re: Institutional OAI activity in the UK

2002-09-20 Thread Peter Suber
(scroll to the second story). I haven't separated the UK events from the rest, but that should not be too hard to do. Good luck, Peter -- Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374 Email pet...@earlham.edu Web http://www.earlham.edu/~peters

Re: Excerpts from FOS Newsletter

2002-09-15 Thread Peter Suber
the results, support comparisons and tracking, and prevent duplicated labor. Anyone game? The quotation is from James Morrison, The Free Online Scholarship Movement: An Interview with Peter Suber (September-October issue of _The Technology Source_) http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=articleid=1025

Momentum for Eprint Archiving

2002-08-09 Thread Peter Suber
/ Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/ * Thanks to Helene Bosc, Sarah Faraud, Chris Gutteridge, Melissa Hagemann, Stevan Harnad, Rick Johnson, Xiaoming Liu, Tim Mark, Stephen Pinfield, Colin Steele, and Herbert Van de Sompel for providing details. Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu

Re: Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

2002-08-09 Thread Peter Suber
Mark Rowse at his word. If you are comparing prices for mark-up, hosting, and production (just about everything but editing), then ask Ingenta for quote. Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Copyright (c) 2002, Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/copyrite.htm

Re: Excerpts from FOS Newsletter

2002-08-09 Thread Peter Suber
for the FOS Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/sources.htm Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Copyright (c) 2002, Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/copyrite.htm

Elsevier's self-archiving policy

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
in publicly accessible archives. I asked him in an April letter whether the Budapest Open Access Initiative would be justified in drawing these inferences from his interview, but he has not replied. -- Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374 Email pet

Open access to the scientific journal literature

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
/openaccess/] 3. BioMed Central [http://www.biomedcentral.com] 4. PADI - Preserving Access to Digital Information [http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/18.html] 5. Faculty of 1000 [http://www.facultyof1000.com/] Editors' Note Peter Suber is Editor of The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http

Re: Excerpts from FOS Newsletter

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm Guide to the FOS Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm Sources for the FOS Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/sources.htm Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Copyright (c) 2002, Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters

Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
For immediate release, July 1, 2002 INGENTA SIGNS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON TO CREATE OPEN ARCHIVE E-PRINT SERVICES Ingenta plc, which empowers the exchange of scholarly and professional research content online, has signed a strategic partnership with the

Developing Country Access to On-line Scientific Publishing, 4-5 October 2002

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
Please inform your colleagues interested to participate in a Round Table on DEVELOPING COUNTRY ACCESS TO ON-LINE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Sustainable Alternatives 4-5 October 2002, Trieste, Italy

Open access to the scientific journal literature

2002-06-19 Thread Peter Suber
/openaccess/] 3. BioMed Central [http://www.biomedcentral.com] 4. PADI - Preserving Access to Digital Information [http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/18.html] 5. Faculty of 1000 [http://www.facultyof1000.com/] Editors' Note Peter Suber is Editor of The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http

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