[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

2013-01-12 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Alma Swan wrote: The UK's House of Lords (upper chamber of Parliament) Science Technology Committee is conducting an enquiry into Open Access. Written submissions are welcome. Individuals and organisations are invited to give their views on the actions taken by Government and RCUK following

[GOAL] Cost effectiveness for open access journals

2013-01-12 Thread Heather Morrison
Thanks to Eigenfactor.org and journalprices.com for this chart. Good to see lots of dots on the upper left-hand side: high influence, low cost! http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/ Heather G. Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org

[GOAL] House of Lords enquiry

2013-01-12 Thread Alma Swan
Alma, could you provide the source of the issues you highlight? The URL you gave is just to the format of how to submit, but does not include the actual remit of the inquiry. I can now, but there was nothing available when I posted the news approximately 24 hours ago. This press release was

[GOAL] Re: House of Lords enquiry

2013-01-12 Thread brentier
Alma, There is a mistake on the link. It should read: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/open-access/ Cheers, Bernard Le 12 janv. 2013 à 10:11, Alma Swan a.s...@talk21.com a écrit : Alma, could you provide the source

[GOAL] Aaron Swartz RIP

2013-01-12 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Many on this list are probably aware of Aaron Swartz due to his investigation (some have described it as hounding) after his unauthorised installation of a computer in a network system cupboard at MIT through which he downloaded a substantial number of papers from JSTOR (which he explained he