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Tag Archives: OA
Chemists to get their own preprint server
World’s largest scientific society plans to introduce ChemRxiv for a traditionally reluctant discipline.
- Daniel Cressey
11 August 2016
Nature DOI: doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20409
http://www.nature.com./news/chemists-to-get-their-own-preprint-server-1.20409
From Bob Buntrock (Princeton Class of ??) on the CHMINF Listserv.
Like arXiv and bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, hopes to facilitate the discovery and sharing of significant happenings in Chemistry. ACS is welcoming input during this planning stage.
arXiv hits 1 million submissions
From the “Cornell Chronicle”, Jan. 15, 2015, and seen in the “Fast Facts” column of “College & Research Libraries News”, Vol. 76(2) p. 108, Feb., 2015,
“As an open-access service, it allows scientists from disciplines encompassing physics, statistics, computer science and others to share research before it’s formally published. One million papers have now been uploaded to the repository.”
“arXiv received more than 97,000 new submissions in 2014. More than 150 subject experts from around the world evaluate and categorize every article posted on arXiv.”
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/01/research-repository-arxiv-hits-1-million-submissions
Virus Evolution — New OA journal from OUP
http://ve.oxfordjournals.org/
“Virus Evolution is a new Open Access journal focusing on the long-term evolution of viruses, viruses as a model system for studying evolutionary processes, viral molecular epidemiology and environmental virology.
The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for original research papers, reviews, commentaries and a venue for in-depth discussion on the topics relevant to virus evolution.”
“Editors-in Chief, Professor Oliver Pybus, University of Oxford, and Professor Santiago Elena, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV) welcome submissions at:https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vevolu.”
Source of information: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, Feb. 9, 2015
eLIFE — a respected OA journal
eLIFE
- http://elifesciences.org“This highly thought of open access journal promises a speed and ease of publishing unheard of in most traditional life science journals. Initial decisions on a manuscript are usually made within days. Post-review decisions are made within weeks. Most articles only go through a single round of revisions. For the reader, this means that the results you’re reading are hot off the lab bench. Best of all, unlike most scientific journals, which can cost upwards of $20 for a single article, the 842 (and counting) articles on this site are completely free. The eLIFE podcast is also available for easy download, online listening, or subscription. [CNH]“
- Source: The Scout Report — Volume 20, Number 40 (HTML) Univ. of Wisconsin, 10/17/2014
Science Advances — new OA journal from AAAS
AAAS launches new title – Science Advances – 14 Feb 2014
“The non-profit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, plans an expansion of its scientific communication efforts with the launch of a new title, Science Advances, as an extended forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed research.
Spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the social sciences, the new digital publication will leverage Science’s uniquely broad scope to help speed scientific progress by promoting the rapid communication of current research. Science Advances will be published online – on an open-access basis, with articles freely available to the public – through the payment, by authors, of an article processing fee.”
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, 2/14/14
Open Access week is here — October 21-27 (2013)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY
Open access explained – 8 min video (PhD cartoon)
“Quite good”, writes
Anne Langley
Head Librarian, Science and Technology Libraries
Director of Scholarly Communications
Chemistry Liaison
Princeton University
P.S. More information about OA can be found at http://www.openaccessweek.org/
100 Open Access science journals to be launched by Versita in 2012
Versita Launches Open Access Journal Program
From ResourceShelf Newsletter No. 558, May 31, 2012
From the press release:
Academic publisher Versita announced today the launch of a new program of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012. The program’s focus is on young and rapidly developing fields of science, which have not yet been covered by a designated journal. The emerging topics have been identified in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Mathematics.
…One of the main reasons of this outstanding support is the Open Access publishing model, which provides free and unlimited access to the journal articles for all interested readers. In view of Academic Spring – and with Open Access gaining a momentum across scholar communities worldwide – Versita is not planning any publication fees for the first two years.
Petition for Public Access to all Publicly-funded Research
ASU (Arizona State University) Libraries have posted a concise piece about Open Access to scholarly research in ” The Library Channel” newsletter: http://lib.asu.edu/librarychannel/2012/05/21/petition/
There is a video and a link to more information as well as the petition at http://www.whitehouse.gov
Freely share the data and the knowledge!
Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) launched by UNESCO
Global Open Access Portal launched at UNESCO meet – 07 Nov 2011
“The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) was launched at a special side event organised during the 36th session of the UNESCO General Conference at Paris headquarters. The portal is aimed at presenting a snapshot of the status of open access (OA) to scientific information around the world.
For countries that have been more successful in implementing OA, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of OA development, it identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.
The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2,000 initiatives/projects in member states. It is supported by an existing Community of Practice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowledge Communities Platform that has over 1,400 members.
The GOAP, launched together with the revamped Open Training Platform (OTP) and the first UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform, provides the information for policy-makers to learn about the global OA environment. They can also view their country’s status, and understand where and why OA has been most successful.
Development of the portal has been made possible with support received from the governments of Columbia, Denmark, Norway and the US. The portal will be a work in progress, and shall be further improved with the support received from the community of OA practitioners.
OA is reportedly at the heart of UNESCO’s mandate to provide universal access to information and knowledge. The UNESCO Open Access programme shall continue to facilitate policy dialogue in member states, share knowledge and best practices in the field of OA, and build and share local capacities through North-South and South-South co-operation to build knowledge societies for sustainable development.”
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter (today)