Opens Roundup (March 25)
In this issue, the US FIRST act meets opposition on all fronts, David Wiley (champion of open education) on the 5Rs of openness, Wellcome releases its report on how to promote an effective market for...
View ArticleThe stick, the carrots and the bear trap
UK HEFCE Public Access policy is a shift in the landscape After a one-year consultation, the four UK higher education funding bodies (HEFCE) have issued the first national policy to explicitly link...
View ArticleThe Embargoes Don’t Work: The British Academy provides the best evidence yet
The debates today on implementing Open Access pivot around two key points. The first is the perceived cost of a transition to a fully funded Open Access publishing environment. The second is the...
View ArticleOpens Roundup (May)
To help navigate the content in this issue of the roundup, here’s an index of the topics covered with links to the items below: POLICY DEVELOPMENTS: US: House Committee Amends FIRST ACT to reduce...
View ArticleWikimania: We need to choose the main stream over our small pool
The Wikimania meeting is the annual jamboree of the Wikimedia movement. The sessions cover museums, pop culture, politics, technology, communities and tools. Two thousand people have descended on the...
View ArticleMomentum growing in support of Creative Commons framework
Last Thursday we published a letter with 57 other organisations calling on the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers to withdraw their model licences and work within...
View ArticleThe rise and rise of Creative Commons: Over 1.2M CC Licensed Scholarly Articles
In our call to the STM Association to withdraw their model licenses we drew attention to the fact that Creative Commons licenses are a de facto global standard. But sometimes it is claimed that (as the...
View Article#NoNewLicenses Update
Since our coalition of over 50 signatories first released our letter to the STM Association calling on them to withdraw their new model licenses there has been overwhelming support. We’ve added new...
View ArticlePolicy Design and Implementation Monitoring for Open Access
We know that those Open Access policies that work are the ones that have teeth. Both institutional and funder policies work better when tied to reporting requirements. The success of the University of...
View ArticleLet it go – Cancelling subscriptions, funding transitions
A central question for many people involved in Open Access is whether it can, or will save money. Most analyses suggest that a fully OA environment is cheaper (or at worst similar in cost) for...
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