http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:48:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ARL Releases New Analysis Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released "PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy," by Ben Grillot, MLS (Maryland 2002), second-year student at the George Washington University Law School, and ... http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/08/18/publisher-author-agreements-and-the-nih-public-access-policy/ This year, the University Senate has devoted a considerable amount of time to the topic of intellectual property rights. We started by broaching this topic within the context of inventions, copyrightable works with potential commercial value, tangible research property and research data, and income derived from intellectual property. At the ... http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/03/18/purdue-university-senate-passes-cic-authors-copyright-contract-addendum/ 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  http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/02/13/harvard-mandates-open-access-to-arts-and-sciences-faculty-research-publications/ 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 ... http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/02/12/high-energy-physics-and-scoap-proposing-a-new-model-for-publishing/ Published impact factors affect authors' decisions about manuscript submission, funding awards, and promotion and tenure. While  critiques of the use of impact factors are common, this report by the editors of the Journal of Cell Biology and the Journal of Experimental Medicine is the first to raise serious questions about ... http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/01/23/isi-and-impact-factors/ 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 ... http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/01/04/bill-mandates-open-access-for-nih-funded-research/ Victor Lechtenberg, Interim Provost, appointed a Scholarly Communication Task Force earlier this fall. James Mullins, Dean of Libraries, chairs the task force. Members of the Purdue Scholarly Communication Task Force are Thomas Bacher, Director, University Press; George Bodner, A. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Education; Nancy Bulger, Assistant Provost; ... http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2007/12/18/welcome-from-the-scholarly-communication-task-force/