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Portal designed to aggregate material to provide training, knowledge development, and skills for the implementing of OA repositories and OA journals.

tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 26-JUN-09

"This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. You are free to download and sample from music on this site and share the results with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it."

Collaboratively built legal encyclopedia and dictionary from Cornell's Legal Information Institute.

tagged dictionaries encyclopedias law open_access by bmarcell ...on 11-NOV-08

Open-access, free patent informatics resource.  It serves as the cyberinfrastructure platform for the Initiative for Open Innovation.

tagged open_access patents by bmarcell ...on 03-OCT-08

"A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA." Founded by Peter Suber and Robin Peek.

Mashup using data from ROAR and OpenDOAR

tagged institutional_repositories open_access by bmarcell ...on 19-MAY-08
From their homepage, " The Publishing Research Consortium is a group of associations and publishers, which supports global research into scholarly communication in order to enable evidence-based discussion. Our objective is to support work that is scientific and pro-scholarship. Overall, we aim to promote an understanding of the role of publishing and its impact on research and teaching." Publish whitepapers and other papers looking at peer review, open access, etc.
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.
"The daily intelligence resource for the STM publishing industry."
An international partnership to build a large-scale public infrastructure for research information across Europe.
Research report on purchasing preferences of librarians. Identifies key factors prompting substitution of OA materials for journal subscriptions.
tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 08-JAN-07
Chapters from the book Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects (N. Jacobs, editor), Chandos Publishing: Oxford, 2006. Links available at eprints.org
tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 14-AUG-06
By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Discusses what an IR is, and looks at the relationship between IRs and the open access movement.
"The Office of Scholarly Communication facilitates internal partnerships among the UC libraries, faculty, and administration and, where appropriate, in concert with entities outside UC." Nice use of faculty champions/testimonials.
Compiled and written by Peter Suber. Also includes function for searching the newsletters, the OA blog and other Suber writings on OA.
Advocacy site for self-archive initiatives.
tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 08-MAY-06
BC libraries' scholarly communications site with a mission to, "keep users informed of and to garner user input regarding developments in all aspects of scholarly communication."
"Dedicated to fostering open access to quality information in support of learning, scholarship, research and patient care."
"Presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005." Published in print by Adrian K. HO and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. in Reference Services Review (vol. 33, no. 3, 2005, pp. 346-364)
tagged bibliographies open_access by bmarcell ...on 12-MAR-06
"Provides commentary on open access, scholarly electronic publishing and digital culture issues."
"Running list of research papers, editorial appointments, and other content and actions results in freely available scholarship by researchers at CalTech. Created by CalTech librarians.
Peter Suber's OA news blog.
tagged blogs open_access by bmarcell ...and 1 other person ...on 12-MAR-06
Cornell University Library scholarly communication website. "The purposes of this Web page are (a) to inform Cornell faculty of some of the key issues that drive the debates over scholarly communication, and (b) to suggest action that faculty might consider to support needed changes."
Chronological bibliography covering research that examines the relationship between open access and citation impact.