Selected links to various materials received by e-mail (Aug-17 Sep 2008) from D. Nicholson, WITS, Copyright Services Librarian ( see below her e-mail, if you would like to subscribe to her e-mail alert):
Ithaka’s 2008 report on its 2006 faculty and librarian surveys
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/ithaka-2008-report-on-its-2006-faculty.html
http://www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys
Open Access: Institutional Repositories
Publishers allowing the depositing of their published version/PDF in Institutional Repositories
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html
3 Articles on IR's in Developing Countries
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/09/3-articles-on-irs-in-developing.html
Open Access Repositories begin to reap benefits for South African Science as CSIR research goes global:
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray-area/2008/07/29/csir-research-goes-global
Seven Academic Open-Access Repositories Compared
http://www.icommons.org/articles/oa-academia-in-repose
LabMeeting: a scientist’s answer to an institutional repository?
http://lib.calpoly.edu/blog/crossingthechasm/2008/07/30/labmeeting-a-scientists-answer-to-an-institutional-repository/
Many publishers do allow authors to deposit their works in institutional repositories. See: Sherpa/Romeo
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.html
Director of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
Open Access: Science/ Education/ Research
Open Access – What is it?
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/scholcomm/openaccess.html
Open Access in South Africa
http://www.sivulile.org/
Open Educational Resources
http://deoracle.org/online-pedagogy/emerging-technologies/open-educational-resources.html
Open Access and Science
http://lib.calpoly.edu/blog/crossingthechasm/2008/09/11/open-access-and-science/
Are Online and Free Online Access Broadening or Narrowing Research?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/443-Are-Online-and-Free-Online-Access-Broadening-or-Narrowing-Research.html
Research funders’ open access policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php
Open Access: Good for Business!
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2005/09/open-access-good-for-business.html
Structural Genomics Knowledgebase (free resource)
http://kb.psi-structuralgenomics.org/about/this_site.html
Science Dissemination using Open Access (free to download)
http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/SciDissOpenAccess.pdf
Max Planck Society - Scientists Publish at PloS - Free of charge for their institutes
http://lilyheart.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/max-planck-society-scientists-publish-at-plos-free-of-charge-for-their-institutes
Out in the Open: Some MIT Scientists Sharing Results, Posting Unpublished Data
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N31/openscience.html
Science Dissemination Using Open Access (free downloadable book)
http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/08/science-dissemination-using-open-access.html
How open access is your research area? (revisited)
http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/how_open_access_is_your1
Microsoft Research Unveils Free Software Tools to Help Scholars and Reseachers Share Knowledge
http://www.reviewspc.com/microsoft-research-unveils-free-software-tools-to-help-scholars-and-researchers-share-knowledge.html
Open Access: Scholarly Publishing/Peer Reviewing/Commons
Data Sharing and the Digital Science Commons
http://blog.mttlr.org/2008/09/data-sharing-and-digital-science.html
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/toc.htm
Who Profits when you Publish?
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2008/JA/Feat/wall.htm
The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship
http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2008-04.pdf
Best Practices for Access to Images: Recommendations for Scholarly Use and Publishing
http://www.arhv.lhivic.org/index.php/2008/08/22/790-best-practices-for-access-to-images-recommendations-for-scholarly-use-and-publishing
CreateChange – Digital Scholarship
http://www.createchange.org/
Bringing down the barriers (digital scholarship)
http://www.createchange.org/modes/bringing.shtml
Peer reviewing: privilege and responsibility
http://www.textjournal.com.au/april08/johnston_krauth.htm
Researchers benefit from Sharing
http://www.createchange.org/modes/researchers.shtml
Open Source approach to textbook publishing
http://www.springwise.com/education/open_source_approach_to_textbo/
ThoughtMesh: an Innovative Scholarly Publishing and Discovery Model
http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/05/thoughtmesh-innovative-scholarly.html
Funding for Open Access Publishing (one way of addressing OA publishing)
http://ucalgaryhslnews.blogspot.com/2008/08/funding-for-open-access-publishing.html
Open Access: Authorship/Copyright
Authorship: why not just toss a coin?
http://ajpcell.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/295/3/C567
Open Access anxiety in the publish or perish world
http://www.plos.org/cms/node/397
Authors’ rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors'_rights
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.shtml
Canadian Association of University Teachers advises Authors to retain Copyright
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/caut-advises-authors-to-retain.html
Search Engines/ Directories/ References/ Databases
World Wide Web Reference
http://www.wwwreference.info/
Student Research Resources
http://www.studentresearch.info/
Quick Reference Research
http://www.refdesk.com/instant.html
Alltheweb.com
www.alltheweb.com
CompletePlanet (Deep Web Directory)
http://aip.completeplanet.com/index.jsp
The Web: How we use it.
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/07/the_web_how_we_use_it.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
National Center for Biotechnology Information – Public Databases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Life Sciences Search Engine
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery
Biodiversity Heritage Library
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Science Portal (Open Access - 90% of items not accessible on Google)
www.WorldWideScience.org
Biodiversity Heritage Library (Open Access)
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/About.aspx
The Digital Doorway (South Africa)
http://www.digitaldoorway.org.za/index_main.php
Open Access: Journals
Directory of Open Access Journal growth rate nearly doubles in the past year
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/08/doaj-growth-rate-nearly-doubles-in-past.html
Make China journals open access, says top scientist
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/make-china-journals-open-access-says-top-scientist.html
Support for Open Access Journals
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/support-for-oa-journals.html
Searching Patents
WIPO Patentscope
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/
European Patent Office
http://ep.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_ep
Google Patents
www.google.com/patents
Patent Information in Brief
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/data/patent_information.html
If you know of any persons who may benefit from this information, please ask them to email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za with their name, name of institution/organization and contact details.
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