The Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship (ARCS) conference happened for the first time this past spring. One of the conversations from that conference was about the negative information some people hear about sharing their scholarship more openly. You know, the “if you share your data you’ll get scooped” warning. The… read more
Open access
Travel Scholarship Available
Are you interested in creating better access to research and educational materials? Do you want to help make that a reality on the UT Austin campus? If so, please consider applying for a travel scholarship to attend OpenCon 2015. OpenCon is an academic conference for students and early career researchers… read more
FASTR reintroduced
The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) bill has been reintroduced with bipartisan support. One difference between FASTR and the White House memo of a couple years ago, is that FASTR requires an electronic copy of a journal article resulting from publicly-funded research to be made available within… read more
OA journal from Penn State announced
Penn State has announced the start of a new OA journal called Digital Literary Studies. Digital Literary Studies will publish “scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources”. Their call for submissions for the inaugural issue… read more
Alcalde interview with Lorraine Haricombe
AHRQ releases public access plan
The Agency for Health Research & Quality (AHRQ) has released their public access plan – a response to the OSTP memo of nearly two years ago. Details of the plan are available here: http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/publicaccess/index.html Very briefly: AHRQ states that authors will be required to submit scholarly papers to PubMed Central. AHRQ-funded… read more
Humanities Open Book grant program
The NEH and the Mellon Foundation are teaming up to offer grants to publishers to turn out-of-print books into freely accessible ebooks. The grant money will be used to secure rights and make the books available online under Creative Commons licenses. Press release: http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2015-01-15/humanities-open-book
Dutch universities fight for open access
Dutch universities are fighting to make the work published by their academics open access at no extra charge. They are also unwilling to continue to pay above-inflation cost increases for journal subscriptions. The universities have been negotiating with publishers to come up with plans to meet this goal. Click here… read more
New music and religion journal from Yale
The Yale Journal of Music and Religion will begin publishing on January 1, 2015. This will be an open access journal publishing original research on music, theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, ritual studies, religious studies, theology, and liturgical studies. For more information, please see the journal homepage: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/
Nature makes articles free to read
Nature Publishing Group has announced that it will make Nature and 48 other journals freely available in a read-only format. Subscribers will be able to share an article through a read-only link. Users of that link will be able to view the articles in a web browser but will not be… read more
