Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4381 journals in the directory.
For the sake of global scientific progress, human development, and poverty alleviation, it is surely time to end the slavery of traditional publishing.
Texte revu et mis en ligne en juin 2008 par Laurent Martinet Notes rédigées par Ron Day et Laurent Martinet - Tous droits réservés Edition originale aux Editions Documentaires Industrielles et Techniques - EDIT, Paris, 1951
Valerie Tucci [Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship Spring 2010 DOI: 10.5062/F4ZP4419] "Published studies report that Google Scholar's coverage is quickly catching up to the coverage of the traditional A&I services. For example, Meier and Conkling (2008) found a near 90% overlap of Compendex with Google Scholar. In another article (Clark and Kraus 2007) a 65% overlap between Google Scholar and Chemical Abstracts was found.
Most open-access publishers charge fees that are much lower than the industry's average revenue, although there is a wide scatter between journals. The largest open-access publishers - BioMed Central and PLoS - charge $1,350-2,250 to publish peer-reviewed articles in many of their journals, although their most selective offerings charge $2,700-2,900. In a survey published last year2, economists Bo-Christer Björk of the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and David Solomon of Michigan State University in East Lansing looked at 100,697 articles published in 1,370 fee-charging open-access journals active in 2010 (about 40% of the fully open-access articles in that year), and found that charges ranged from $8 to $3,900. Higher charges tend to be found in 'hybrid' journals, in which publishers offer to make individual articles free in a publication that is otherwise paywalled (see 'Price of prestige').
Netherlands Orgnisatio for Scientific Research; NWO, Information and communication Department "Publically financed research must be freely accessible to everybody. Therefore open access publishing must become the norm. NWO is committed to increasing world
"Welcome to the petermr blog! This is one of a series of blogs from scientists in the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at Cambridge. I’ll indicate some of the others on my blogroll. For now, just note that there is another blog specifically dedic
Established in 2003, e-LIS is an internationaldigital repository for Library and Information Science (LIS). It has grown to include a team of volunteer editors and support for 22 languages. The development of an international LIS network has been stimulated by the extension of the Open Access concept to LIS works and facilitated by the dissemination of material within the LIS community. These are some of the reasons for the success of e-LIS.
In a few years, e-LIS has been established as the largest international open repository in the field of library and information science.
By Joseph J. Esposito [ an independent management consultant providing strategic advice, operating analysis, and interim management in the area of digital media to both publishing and software companies.] "Having grown up in New Jersey, I have some qualms about what it means for anyone to form an alliance with unsavory characters. What do you do when they ask for a favor in return?
So it’s about time to consider what happens if the libraries win. By “win” I mean they refuse deals with publishers and turn their constituencies over to unauthorized sites. This will save them huge amounts of money, of course, money that they would surely like to put to other uses. Publishing is an ecosystem, however, and a significant change in one element can ripple across the entire field. If Sci-Hub becomes the default place to go for full-text content, what else will change?
"These musings were prompted by a tweet I saw a couple weeks ago:
What is Sci-Hub’s preservation policy?
Twitter being Twitter, I have no way of knowing the context of that remark. Was it sarcastic? “Now that Sci-Hub is becoming the go-to place to access content, are you going to tell me that those crooks give a damn about the preservation of the scholarly record?” Or was it doe-eyed and innocent? “I would be interested to learn more about Sci-Hub’s preservation policies now that we use it for access.” On the other hand, if we were to be told about Sci-Hub’s preservation policy (Twitter being Twitter), it would be fake news."
In the long discussion Sandy Thatcher said: "One conundrum that libraries who tacitly rely on Sci-Hub create for faculty is to implicate them in associating with an ethically unsavory organization."
We negotiate with publishers, content aggregators and vendors on behalf of library consortia and libraries in partner countries.
As a result, EIFL provides free or highly discounted access, plus fair terms of use, to a wide range of commercial e‑resources and technology products for libraries in EIFL partner countries. In addition, authors from EIFL partner countries can publish their articles in open access for free or at discounted article processing charges.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING EVENT FOR our PARTNERS Publishers, content aggregators and vendors with whom we have agreements are invited to attend the annual EIFL General Assembly (GA). This is a great opportunity for partners to meet Licensing Coordinators in EIFL countries face-to-face during our famous speed-dating event. There are plenty of opportunities to network during social
China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a national level
Scientists reject Harper gov't claims vital material is being saved digitally. By Andrew Nikiforuk, 23 Dec 2013, TheTyee.ca "Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever."
GigaOm 22 Aug 2012: "Co-founder and CEO Victor Henning told me that the company’s API, which offers other services access to its trove of millions of scientific documents, has just surpassed 100 million calls each month. A year after launching the service — which provides access to the information stored in around 65 million scientific papers, documents and files in Mendeley’s databases — the site has around 240 apps that employ it, and is now seeing growth rocket. And that growth, he said, comes through the increasing popularity of those apps, not through any new, specific effort on its own part."
Infact är ett verktyg för att bygga kunskapsöversikter som interaktiva mindmaps där man får en klar överblick och väljer djupdykning i de olika bubblornas faktapresentationer.
r att universitetsbiblioteket åtagit sig att distribuera Actas böcker. Detta sker genom att böckerna kan beställas direkt från bibliotekskatalogen eller Actas hemsida. I stället för att böcker trycks i stora upplagor och sedan distribueras från lager, har vi bestämt att alla böcker ska tryckas först när de beställs. Denna distribution kallas också "print-on-demand". alla titlar ska fulltextpubliceras i Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (DiVA). Fulltextpubliceringen Open Access innebär stor exponering för publikationerna. Erfarenheterna från vår tidigare distributör visar att de titlar som är sökbara i fulltext på Internet också hörde till dem som såldes i fler tryckta exemplar.
"The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody ", Clay Shirky writes. Why group? Anybody can do it. What is the difference between anybody and everybody?
Verkkari - Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston verkkolehti. Ilmatieteen laitoksen kirjasto suljettiin 1.5.2009. Kirjaston aineistot siirretään Kumpulan tiedekirjastoon ja Varastokirjastoon. "Ilmatieteen laitoksen kirjasto ja Merentutkimuslaitoksen kirjasto toi
Do you have dozens of PDF files from your favorite scientific articles scattered on your harddrive? Do you also try to desperately organize them by renaming and archiving them in folders? But like the piles of printed articles on your desk, you can't keep up with all the new papers you download, and despite all your efforts it has become impossible to find that one article.
LibGen or the Library Genesis Project is a search engine for scientific articles and books, which allows free access to otherwise paywalled content. Among others it carries PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal. (Wikipedia)
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
Abstract. Since Swanson’s introduction of literature-based discovery in 1986, new hypotheses have been generated by connecting disconnected scientific literatures. In this paper, we present the general discovery model and show how it can be used for dru
EndnoteWeb, RefWorks, Connotea, CiteULike, Zotero, Mendeley. Nice summary of the state of the art by Martin Fenner. Conclusion - not much to choose in some ways - personal preference!
Survey responses reveal that beyond lack of journal access, convenience and antipathy toward publishers are key motivations for turning to paper repository By John TRavis, May 2016