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27/04/2010
The National Documentation Centre (EKT) recently launched www.openaccess.gr/blog , a blog on Open Access. The blog aims to promote the dialogue on Open Access, the adoption of Open Access policies in research organizations and the effective dissemination of research performed in Greece. The blog is complementary to www.openaccess.gr , the only Greek website that collects information on Open Access, on the relevant national and international policies, as well as news and events in Greece and the world.
14/04/2010
The European project Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) recently released a study entitled ‘Overview of Open Access Models for eBooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences'. A variety of relevant initiatives were examined with respect to their publishing models, business models and publishing processes. While OA book publishing may still be in a nascent state, the steady increase in experiments reflects the need for new and sustainable business models in HSS monograph publishing, as well as, occasionally, an ideological motivation to open up scholarship to wider audiences.
15/03/2010
The European project Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) recently released a study on ‘Digital Monographs in the Humanities and the Social Sciences: Report on User Needs'. Following the innovations in eJournals, the development of the eMonograph comes as an answer to the so-called monograph crisis, that is the dwindling market for monographs in the HSS caused by the increased budget cuts in the libraries.
11/02/2010
The president of the Dutch Organization for Research (NWO ), Professor Jos Engelen, recently announced that his organization created a 2.5 million Euro Open Access fund. This fund will defray costs for Open Access publication of NWO-funded research.
04/02/2010
PEER project (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) just published a ‘Baseline report on authors and users vis-à-vis journals and repositories'. The report was based on research carried out by the Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University (Department of Information Science & LISU).
25/01/2010
In June 2009, the Committee on Science and Technology of the United States House of Representatives, in coordination with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), convened a Scholarly Publishing Roundtable to examine the current state of scholarly publishing and develop consensus recommendations for expanding public access to the journal articles arising from research funded by agencies of the United States government.
