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AuthorChoice — the ACS model for open access publishing

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Links to the journals and description of the program:   http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/articles/index.html

The following editorial was promoted  yesterday on the CHMINF listserv —

by Kitty Porter, Stevenson Science & Engineering Library, Vanderbilt University

AuthorChoice: a great way to get your papers read.
LJ Marnett – Chem Res Toxicol, 2007 – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chem Res Toxicol. 2007 Sep;20(9):1235-6. Click here to read AuthorChoice:
a great way to get your papers read. Marnett LJ. Publication …
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(Bibliographic data & links, here, thanks to Google!)

Princeton University Library subscribes to all of the American Chemical Society journals, and they are all indexed by SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service) with full text links where available.

 

 

Cal (Berkeley) to pay for authors to publish in Open Access journals

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"enews feature: Berkeley steps forward with bold initiative to pay authors’ open-access charges 

 

It’s one thing to say you support open-access publishing. It’s another to provide authors with a pot of money to actually pay for it. That’s what’s happening at the University of California Berkeley. In January, the university launched the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative, a pilot program co-sponsored by the University Librarian and the Vice Chancellor for Research to cover publication charges for open-access journals… "

 

From SPARC enews, May, 2008

 

To read more, or subscribe to the SPARC  (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) newsletter: http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.shtml 

Open Access Directory

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Open Access Directory: A wiki to organize information about the open access movement
 
Boston, April 30, 2008.  Peter Suber and Robin Peek have launched the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki where the open access community can create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Suber, a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, and Peek, an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, conceived the project in order to collect OA-related lists for one-stop reference and searching. 
 
The wiki will start operating with about half a dozen lists –for example, conferences devoted to open access, discussion forums devoted to open access, and journal "declarations of independence"– and add more over time. 
 
The goal is to harness the knowledge and energy of the open access community itself to enlarge and correct the lists. A list on a wiki, revised continuously by its users, can be more comprehensive and up to date than the same list maintained by an individual. 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 open access. 
 
The URL for the Open Access Directory is http://oad.simmons.edu . 
 
To contact us, email Athanasia Pontika, the Assistant Editor (OAD.contact@gmail.com), or the Editorial Board (OAD.editors@gmail.com).
 
The wiki is represented by an editorial board consisting of prominent figures in the open access movement. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at Simmons College hosts and provides technical support to the OAD.

Source:  Patty Gaspari-Bridges & ScholComm, a listserv of the American Library Association