There’s a brief article in Webology that’s worth taking a look at for librarians and open-access advocates. In brief, the author asked a bunch of physicists and astronomers about how they prefer to access materials. No big surprise; they’d rather grab it online. What is curious is ...

Openness: Fostering Sharing, Collaboration, and Open Access to Knowledge and Resources Notes from a discussion session held at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference Feb 25, 2009. Notes provided by Jeremy Donald, Trinity University. Speaker(s)     * Cynthia Golden, Vice President, EDUCAUSE  ...

Rarely do you see things put so susinctly. Sometimes I could just kiss Paul Graham, but that would be kind of weird and creepy. :) He captures the inevitability of the TV vs. Internet war, the sheer obviousness and the magic and slaps it all down in a few hundred words like it was meant to be. From:...

Peter Suber weist im aktuellen SOAN Newsletter auf die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen für Open Acess hin. Durch die Weltwirtschaftskrise ist es noch viel wichtiger, dass wir alle ökonomischen Anreize nutzen und OA ist einer (der Wichtigsten) davon. The US, and the world, are now in profound econom...

When Andrew Albanese asked to interview me for a Library Journal article on IRs, I said yes immediately. I knew his work already; I assign his pieces on e-reserves to my students, because they boil a stunning amount of complexity down into something students can easily and profitably assimilate. Thi...

Evans and Reimer published a paper in Science on the effects of Open Access entitled Open Access and Participation in Science. They analyse citations to articles in journals indexed by Thomson Scientific’s Science, Social Science, and Humanities Citation Indexes (CI). These include articles and as...

Evans and Reimer published a paper in Science on the effects of Open Access entitled Open Access and Participation in Science. They analyse citations to articles in journals indexed by Thomson Scientific’s Science, Social Science, and Humanities Citation Indexes (CI). These include articles and as...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Evans and Reimer published a paper in Science on the effects of Open Access entitled Open Access and Participation in Science. They analyse citations to articles in journals indexed by Thomson Scientific’s Science, Social Science, and Humanities Cita...

It seems to me that there is now quite a general acceptance of what the 'open access' movement is trying to achieve. I know that not everyone buys into that particular world-view but, for those of us that do, we know where we are headed and most of us will probably recognise it when we get there. He...

Peter Suber links to a government report on the state of open access in Canada, mysteriously unpaginated and protected to prevent cut and paste, making it almost impossible to cite. The state of the state is not pretty: "Much of the research data being produced today is hard to access by other Canad...