Monthly Archives: July 2011

Open Access — 1st North American Meeting

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SPARC to host first North Amer­i­can meet­ing on Open Access in 2012

The Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing and Aca­d­e­mic Resources Coali­tion (SPARC) will host its first North Amer­i­can meet­ing on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the suc­cess­ful bien­nial SPARC Dig­i­tal Repos­i­to­ries meet­ing.
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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter July 27, 2011

Cambridge Journals — Open Access through August 30, 2011

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“ Cam­bridge Jour­nals open access to online con­tent pub­lished dur­ing 2009 and 2010 — 18 Jul 2011

Cam­bridge Jour­nals, a divi­sion of Cam­bridge Uni­ver­sity Press (CUP), UK, is cel­e­brat­ing recent achieve­ments by mak­ing all its online jour­nals con­tent from 2009 and 2010 free for six weeks.

Cam­bridge has enjoyed accel­er­at­ing suc­cess in recent years with increas­ing num­bers of jour­nals pub­lished, improved impact fac­tors and mul­ti­ple enhance­ments made to Cam­bridge Jour­nals Online (CJO). Usage has sig­nif­i­cantly increased with the digi­ti­sa­tion of new and archive con­tent, and more peo­ple are now able to access Cam­bridge Jour­nals than before. Cur­rently over 1.3 mil­lion arti­cles are down­loaded from CJO every month.

To cel­e­brate these suc­cesses, and to reach out to new cus­tomers, Cam­bridge Jour­nals has announced that it is mak­ing all online con­tent pub­lished dur­ing 2009 and 2010 free between July 15 and August 30, 2011.

Dur­ing the trial, the Cam­bridge Jour­nals team will also be look­ing for feed­back to help shape the future of the ser­vice. The CJO web­site is con­tin­u­ally devel­op­ing, informed by con­sul­ta­tion with key cus­tomers in the aca­d­e­mic and library com­mu­ni­ties. Users will be encour­aged to give their feed­back on CJO and con­tent, to ensure the ser­vice keeps on devel­op­ing accord­ing to their needs.”

Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 18, 2011