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- Springer launches SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone
- Publishers Applaud “Research Works Act,” Bipartisan Legislation To End Government Mandates on Private-Sector Scholarly Publishing
- H.R.3699 - Research Works Act
- Switching to open access for the new year
- Why is Sharing So Much Harder than Selling? | Inside Higher Ed
- Research in Learning Technology has moved to Co-Action Publishing
| Springer launches SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:42 AM PST www.springer.com "Springer, a leading global scientific publisher, has launched the SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch. It is free to download....Free content in the form of article abstracts, over 127,000 open access research articles, plus book and journal covers and other document details are included in the app...." |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:54 AM PST www.publishers.org "The legislation is aimed at preventing regulatory interference with private-sector research publishers in the production, peer review and publication of scientific, medical, technical, humanities, legal and scholarly journal articles. This sector represents tens of thousands of articles which report on, analyze and interpret original research; more than 30,000 U.S. workers; and millions of dollars invested by publishers in staff, editorial, technological, capital and operational funding of independent peer review by specialized experts. North American-based science journal publishers alone account for 45% of all peer-reviewed papers published annually for researchers worldwide...." |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:07 AM PST The Research Works Act (HR 3699) is a new bill to repeal the open-access policy at the NIH and block similar policies at other federal agencies. Co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), it was introduced on December 16, 2011, and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The main section is brief: "No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that -- (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work." |
| Switching to open access for the new year Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:18 PM PST The Occasional Pamphlet, (05 Jan 2012) "The journal Research in Learning Technology has switched its approach from closed to open access as of New Year’s 2012. Congratulations to the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)...for this farsighted move. This isn’t the first journal to make the switch. The Open Access Directory lists about 130 of them. In my own research field, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) converted its flagship journal Computational Linguistics to OA as of 2009, and has just announced a new open-access journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Each such transition is a reminder of the trajectory that journal publishing ought to head. The ALT has done lots of things right in this change. They’ve chosen the ideal licensing regime for papers, the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. They’ve jettisoned one of the largest commercial subscription journal publishers, and gone with a small but dedicated professional open-access publisher, Co-Action Publishing. They’ve opened access to the journal retrospectively, so that the entire archive, back to 1993, is available from the publisher’s web site. Here’s hoping that other scholarly societies are inspired by the examples of the ALT and ACL, and join the many hundreds of scholarly societies that publish their journals open access. It’s time to switch." |
| Why is Sharing So Much Harder than Selling? | Inside Higher Ed Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:20 PM PST www.insidehighered.com "Joshua Kim raised an interesting question on Tuesday. In just an hour, he was able to get a whole bunch of books and chose among formats for preference and price. The fact that Amazon makes it insanely easy to buy books – but makes it difficult or impossible to share them (thanks in large part to publishers) leads him wonder about the dominance of Amazon and the impact on libraries....[For my project, using journal articles] I would have had to spent a lot more than Joshua did; single articles cost four or five times what he spent on each book because the economics of scholarly publishing are so borked. Besides, what I really want to do is share these things, not buy them just for myself. If I buy them, I can't share them....This bugs me for two reasons. One is that librarians didn’t invent Amazon before Amazon did....The other reason it frustrates me is that these texts were mostly written to be shared, not sold....I’m frustrated that libraries and the scholars they serve haven’t figured out a more effective and efficient way to share our research that actually fits what we do when we do research. I’m dismayed that, thanks to inattention, we have let the fruits of our research be treated like rare and overpriced consumer goods. Surely we can do better...." |
| Research in Learning Technology has moved to Co-Action Publishing Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:56 AM PST www.researchinlearningtechnology.net "Research in Learning Technology has moved to Co-Action Publishing and is now published Open Access and online-only...." [PS: In addition, the full backfile to 1993 is OA.] |
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