“In light of the recent, failed attempt to abridge access to scholarly articles via the Research Works Act (RWA), a growing number of researchers have expressed their frustration with the status quo
in scholarly publishing, and are interested in learning about concrete actions that they can take to effect positive change. SPARC has prepared this resource for our members, to help you to engage
your faculty and researchers, and talk with them about options for taking such action.”

“Publishing Your Research 101 is a new educational video series, to assist authors and reviewers with the processes of writing, submitting, editing, and reviewing manuscripts.”

Abstract: “Enhancing publications has a long history but is gaining acceleration as authors and publishers explore electronic tablets as devices for dissemination and presentation. Enhancement of scholarly publications, in contrast, more often takes place in a Web environment and is coupled with presentation of supplementary materials related to research. The approach to enhancing scholarly publications presented in this article goes a step further and involves the interlinking of the 'objects' of a document: datasets, supplementary materials, secondary analyses, and post-publication interventions. This approach connects the user-centricity of Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web. It aims at facilitating long-term content structure through standardized formats intended to improve interoperability between concepts and terms within and across knowledge domains. We explored this conception of enhancement on a small set of books prepared for traditional academic publishers. …”

„Tausende Wissenschaftler boykottieren derzeit den größten Wissenschaftsverlag Elsevier, um gegen dessen Preisgestaltung zu protestieren. Boykotteur Professor Günter M. Ziegler kritisiert, dass die Knebelverträge des Verlags die Unis zu viel Geld kosteten, das dann an anderer Stelle fehle.“

“One of the recent additions to the EconStor collection was a working paper from CESifo called “A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review”. In this paper the authors describe their experiences as editors and also present some interesting insights.”

Günter M. Ziegler von der Freien Universität Berlin über seine Motivation, den Elsevier-Boykott mitzutragen.

“Non commercial licenses are not just a way to prevent other publishers from reselling content, which is often the focus of the conversation, but a tax on startups and companies who want to treat the literature as data. … If the web had been NC licensed, we would not have google, and pagerank would have remained where it started as an academic theory experiment.”

Stanton, K. V. & Liew, C. L. (2012). Open access theses in institutional repositories: an exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students. Information Research, 17(1) paper 507. [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/17-1/paper507.html]

Schriftliche Fassung des Beitrags zur Tagung ‚Weblogs in den Geisteswissenschaften‘ am 9. März 2012

Unique IDs 2012

(http://www.scholasticahq.com

European Commission

“Science is part of almost every aspect of our lives. Although we rarely think about it, science makes extraordinary things possible. At the flick of a switch, we have light and electricity. When we are ill, science helps us get better. It tells us about the past, helps us with the present, and creates ways to improve our future.”

including:

* Results of the public consultation on scientific information in the digital age
* Survey on open access in FP7

“This is the first draft of the introduction for my thesis, tentatively titled Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age, posted to the web as an illustration of an open thesis approach. Please cite as: Morrison, H. Introduction (draft, March 2011)”

Public Access to Scholarly Publications: Public Comment

On November 3, 2011, OSTP released a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting public input on long-term preservation of, and public access to, the results of federally funded research, including peer-reviewed scholarly publications as required in the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010.

“In a response to Jason Priem’s post advocating the use of Twitter by academics, Don Taylor writes that while Twitter, blogs and other social media should be part of academic life, we must not lose the slow, deliberative process that emphasizes thoughtful scholarship behind traditional publication in journals. ”

Toward a new model of scientific publishing: discussion and a proposal

“eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide.”

video tutorials for authors and editors on how to use Open Journal Systems