Cool OA Limbic Feeling good about open
access
The limbic is part of the human brain that sets the emotional tone, and
when less active is believed to be set in a more positive state. This
blog seeks to locate the cool limbic among those who practice and
celebrate open access. More
Many at whom open access (OA) is aimed - the researchers and authors of
these materials - are practicing OA by simply providing OA to their
papers and using OA papers by others. For authors there are the
intangibles of giving and sharing, and for the best papers the very
tangible effect of increased use and impact measured by the number who
reference the works. For users and the research communities there is
the prospect more effective and faster progress, what research managers
might call productivity, or more simply, access for all. These are some
of the undoubted benefits of OA. Others are finding more reasons for
OA. The blog aims to find those people, and share their enthusiasm for
OA.
Open access (OA) is a simple concept - free Web access to published
research papers. In fact, if it weren't for the title of this blog, one
might even call it a 'no brainer', but not quite. 'Published' means
there are rights and interests attached to the materials at issue. In
addition, protagonists for OA are not always as united in their aims as
might appear, witness debates on 'green' (in repositories) versus gold
(in journals) OA, subject versus institutional repositories, and the
chicken-or-egg discussion about open access (the papers) versus open
data. Mostly these boil down to speed of progress and pragmatism, the
'how' rather than the 'if 'of OA. These issues continue to be seriously
debated on established forums and blogs. OA would be straightforward if
we weren't starting from here.
OA is not just about resources, issues, differences. Cool OA Limbic -
putting people into OA.
http://openaccessanthropology.org/
Welcome to Open Students
http://www.openstudents.org/2008/01/25/welcome-to-open-students/
Open access for critical and cultural theory: Open Humanities Press
by Sigi Jöttkandt
http://www.openstudents.org/2008/03/17/open-access-for-critical-and-cultural-theory-open-humanities-press/
Student publishing as an assessment tool for assignments and research
papers
by Jos van Helvoort
http://www.openstudents.org/2008/02/13/student-publishing-as-an-assessment-tool-for-assignments-and-research-papers/
related ISS Becker & van Helvoort EADI IMWG conference "Open
Access" Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4894741671890584925
SPARC Innovators: AGENTS OF CHANGE - Student Activists for open access
(December 2007)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/students.shtml
SPARC ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL SPARKY AWARDS
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0122.shtml
First Place
“Share”
http://blip.tv/file/488550
Written and directed by Habib Yazdi, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
First Runner Up
“Pri Vetai: Private Eye”
http://www.blip.tv/file/512440
Directed by Tommy McCauley and Max Silver, Carleton College
Second Runner Up
“An Open Access Manifesto”
http://blip.tv/file/517300
Written and directed by Romel Espinel and Josh Hadro, Pratt Institute
Open Access Manifesto, January 07, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXBEYnWcnyE
OATES : Open Access To Eye and Skin, a blog
http://eyeandskin.blogspot.com/
Steve Lawson, Open Access and the reference librarian, See Also ... blog
4 Mar 2008
http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2008/03/open_access_and_the_reference_librarian.html
?? Author Agreements…2 examples
May 08, 2008 By: Kim Christen
http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=328
Harvard mandates
John Palfrey, HLS Goes Open Access, Unanimously
May 7, 2008
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2008/05/07/hls-goes-open-access-unanimously/
A tribute to a great mind, 21 December 2007
http://optimalscholarship.blogspot.com/2007/12/tribute-to-great-mind_21.html
Benefits of Open Access, BioMedCentral, November 20, 2007
BioMed Central's authors and editors discuss the benefits of open
access publishing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2JT23E1bRE
Chris McManus on open access to scientific research articles, July 02,
2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgc52Ygf2H4
Making your research results Open Access, February 20, 2008
Librarian Helena Stjernberg is interviewing researcher Erik Svensson, a
Research Fellow at the Section for Animal Ecology at the Department
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qUL_nhKR0
Bart Knols - open access publishing and the developing world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJF7ERrxho
ScienceFoo Campers: JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), January
17, 2008 Google Channel
JoVE: an Open-access library of experimental videos to revolutionize
biomedical research and scientific publishing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJz7U_L6tU
Librarian's Guide to...Understanding Academic Copyright, October 26,
2007
Prof Weasel struggles to understand the problems with the traditional
journal publication system
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7giW7efQggo
At 12:48 10/06/2008, Stevan Harnad wrote: (BCC)
Funny, but full of errors and misunderstandings! No, the author's
institution does not need to "buy back" its own authors' work (and
neither do their students), and that's not the point. They buy in the
work of authors from other institutions. That's where the problem lies.
And the primary problem is not student access, but researcher access.
And the solution is not to retain copyright (though trying's always a
good idea), but IDOA mandates and the Button.
In other words, this is just the usual, old, well-meaning but naive and
confused librarian's-eye view (journal affordability, student course
packs, "double-pay," and rights management). A bit of truth in it, but
a huge lot of nonsense too.
Was the weasel-author meant to be Welsh, or Indian (TC?)? The pub-rat
was a stab at being American (though anglo-dutch might have been closer
to the point). The goose-librarian was properly dotty, but meant to be
wise-oracular, which she certainly was not!
But you said take it easy, and taking it easy, it was funny and fun,
but a bit like a children's skit, with children's simplistic
stereotypes about life...
Editor Video - Professor Ken Peach (2/3), November 20, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phzOuUfy_r4
Editor Video - Professor Ken Peach (3/3), November 20, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXTVYuG_px8
Professor Ken Peach is Editor-in-Chief of PMC Physics A, the first open
access journal published by PhysMath Central
Editor Video - Professor Chris Arme
Chris Arme introduces a new open access journal, Parasites &
Vectors, for which he is Editor-in-Chief (BMC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaoGaSASQvE
Slides: Graeme Boswell, Research Repository: A Researcher’s View
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pubs/Boswell2008-05-22.ppt
Presented at launch of Glamorgan IR
Blog: Open Access Anthropology: Promoting Open Access in Anthropology
http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/
CreateChange Bookmarks
http://www.createchange.org/bm~doc/crchg-bookmarks-final.pdf
HARVARD ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY RECOGNIZED
AS NEWEST SPARC INNOVATORS
June 26, 2008
http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/harvardfas.shtml
interview with Stuart Shieber, Harvard University, Library Notes, July
2008, No. 1344
http://publications.hul.harvard.edu/ln_1344/interview-stuart-shieber.html
video of Stuart Shieber, SPARC meeting on Campus Open Access Policies
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala08/index.shtml
Niamh Brennan's RSP Summer School presentation
Veerle Van den Eynden, Michael P. Oatham, and Winston Johnson
How free access web-based electronic resources benefit biodiversity and
conservation research – Trinidad and Tobago's endemic plants and their
conservation status,
Oryx, July 2008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605308007321
Kimberly Barlow, Open Access: Online archives, University Times (from
the University of Pittsburgh), July 10, 2008
http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=8225&-Find
Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences was just named the
SPARC Innovator for 2008
http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/
Jonathan Eisen, Freeing My Father's Scientific Publications, The Tree
of Life, June 16, 2008
http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/06/freeing-my-fathers-scientific.html
Salo's Philippic?
http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2008/06/08/a-desultory-digital-scholarship-philippic/
At 04:28 14/09/2008, Stevan Harnad wrote:
Bravo to University of Zurich for creating this promotional video .
(Thanks for alert to Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung via Peter
Suber's Open Access News.
in German
http://openaccessday.org/
October 14, 2008
Flyer for this day
http://openaccessday.org/wp-content/uploads/we-support-oa-flyer.pdf
Intelligent Television: The Open Access Documentary Project
http://www.intelligenttelevision.com/index.php/site/production/the-open-access-documentary-project/
Open access movements in developing countries, a short (1:40 minute)
video in which Buhle Motala of UNISA explains why and how developing
countries should support OA
http://powerofinbetween.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/open-access-movement-in-developing-countries/
A new video series presents six unique perspectives on the importance
of Open Access to research across the higher education community and
beyond.
The “Voices of Open Access” series defines Open Access as a fundamental
component of a new system for exchanging scholarly research results,
where: health is transformed; research outputs are maximized to their
fullest extent; efficiencies in the research process enable faster
discoveries; the best science is made possible; young people are
inspired; access transcends the wealth of the institution; cost savings
are realized across the research process; and medical research
conducted for the public good is made available to everyone who needs
it.
http://www.vimeo.com/oaday08
Cameron Neylon, Where does Open Access stop and 'just doing good
science' begin?, Science in the open, October 14, 2008
http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2008/10/14/where-does-open-access-stop-and-just-doing-good-science-begin/
Open Access Day - the blog posts (40 entries, 2 winners)
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/10/open_access_day_the_blog_posts.php
Audio about OA (from OA Directory)
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Audio_about_OA
Video about OA (from OA Directory)
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Video_about_OA
Reasons researchers really rate repositories
by Alma
Swan, blog, 31 Oct 2008
http://optimalscholarship.blogspot.com/2008/10/reasons-researchers-really-rate.html
points to
How To Institute an Open Access Policy? Stand Up.
by John Willinsky on September 28th, 2008
http://www.slaw.ca/2008/09/28/how-to-institute-an-open-access-policy-stand-up/
SPARKY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED, Feb 3, 2009
Student videos offer unique views on information sharing
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0203.shtml
The SPARKY Awards
http://www.sparkyawards.org/
Archive for the Open Access Day (7 videos, posted Feb 13-6 May 2009)
http://www.sparcspaces.org/video/category/open-access-day/
Open Access Week (Oct 19-23, 2009) blog
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Ingrid Cutler
OPEN MINDS – AN INTERVIEW WITH RUNE NILSEN, PROFESSOR OF
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
ScieCom
info, Vol 5, No 2 (2009)
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1622/1317