Harvard mandates open access to Arts and Sciences faculty research publications
Late yesterday, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted on a measure to permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online. This will likely have major implications for the open access movement.
Links to articles about this in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Harvard Crimson: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=3943&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521835>
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521861
–Beth McNeil
High-energy physics and SCOAP: proposing a new model for publishing
An interesting development in alternative business models has been put forward by the high-energy physics community, through their SCOAP3 initiative (www.scoap3.org), Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing. In short, they are attempting to turn the entire field of high-energy physics open access. By creating a super-consortium, they would make a tender offer to the current […]
Bill mandates open access for NIH-funded research
On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed the omnibus appropriations bill, including the NIH research access provision requiring the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to mandate open access for NIH-funded research. This is major news, as it’s the first OA mandate for a major public funding agency in the US, and sets a precedent […]