Version 73, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
Version 73 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship.
This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

It’s time for academic access all areas

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=403205&c=1

By Tara Brabazon

Stop decrying the signal-to-noise ratio in online scholarly resources, says Tara Brabazon, and give open-source web journals your full support
I am drawn to research that develops a sociology of the web. It is easy – too easy – to assume that “everyone” is online and using digitised platforms in [...]

European Commission Launches Open Access Pilot Project

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1262&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=de
Better access to scientific articles on EU-funded research: European Commission launches online pilot project
Fast and reliable access to research results, especially via the Internet, can drive innovation, advance scientific discovery and support the development of a strong knowledge-based economy. The European Commission wants to ensure that the results of the research [...]

Max Planck Society SCIENTISTS PUBLISH AT PLoS – FREE OF CHARGE FOR THEIR INSTITUTES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, 21 August 2008
**Open Access contract with Public Library of Science: MPS and PLoS agree upon central funding of publication fees**
MPS SCIENTISTS PUBLISH AT PLoS – FREE OF CHARGE FOR THEIR INSTITUTES
In accordance with its commitment to ensure public availability of its research output, the Max Planck Society (MPS) [...]

Hindawi Announces an Open Access Institutional Membership Program

Press Release
August 18, 2008
Hindawi Announces an Open Access Institutional Membership Program
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of its Open Access Institutional Membership program, which will enable authors from member institutes to publish their work in Hindawi’s 125+ open access journals without having to administer and pay any Article Processing Charges from their [...]

SPARC e-news August 2008

http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/enews/sparc-enewsaugust-2008.shtml

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* New Web tools help educators use Sparky video awards in fall courses – Student video contest promotes critical thinking and creative expression
* Now online: Video from the SPARC-ACRL forum on Campus Open Access Policies
* New: Open Access Teaser Cards, for the Right to Research Campaign
* [...]

Publisher-Author Agreements and the NIH Public Access Policy

ARL Releases New Analysis
Washington DC–The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released “PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy,” by Ben Grillot, MLS (Maryland 2002), second-year student at the George Washington University Law School, and legal intern [...]

Taylor & Francis Group and PubMed Central

As part of our author services program, Taylor & Francis will deposit to PubMed
Central (PMC) author manuscripts on behalf of Taylor & Francis, Routledge and
Psychology Press authors reporting NIH funded research.  This service is
offered as part of Taylor & Francis’ new 2008 deposit agreement with the NIH.
This service will help authors [...]

Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship

James A. Evans
Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print—scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or peruse—electronically available journals may portend an ironic change for science. [...]

Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/copyright-infso/greenpaper_en.pdf
The purpose of the Green Paper is to foster a debate on how knowledge for research, science
and education can best be disseminated in the online environment. The Green Paper aims to
set out a number of issues connected with the role of copyright in the “knowledge economy”1
and intends to launch a consultation on these issues.
The Green [...]