Following on the open access and marine themes of the past few weeks, the Census of Marine Life is a terrific open access resource. The census, carried out over ten years, was an impressively massive effort involving: A DECADE OF DISCOVERY 2,700 scientists 80+ nations 540 expeditions US$ 650 million 2,600+ scientific publications 6,000+ potential [...]
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Census of Marine Life, Open Access Gem
Posted in great resource, oceans, open access on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
AU and Open Access
Posted in open access, scholarly communication on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Be sure to check out Antioch University’s open access dissertations this week. And if you’re on the New England campus, be sure to ask Environmental Studies faculty member Jim Gruber about his upcoming article in the open access journal Conservation and Society. Jim sporting the OA t-shirt he won during last year’s Open Access Week.
Students’ Right to Research
Posted in open access, scholarly communication on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As a student trying to get this week’s assignments done, open access may seem only tangentially related to you and your education. Actually, it’s vitally important. And here are a few reasons why from the folks at The Right to Research Coalition: The current system puts students from smaller schools at a disadvantage: due to [...]
Open Access: Free the Research
Posted in information landscape, open access, scholarly communication on October 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Woo hooooo! Open Access Week is here! Hard to contain your excitement, isn’t it? If you weren’t around for last year’s global event promoting OA, and are wondering if anyone other than librarians should be interested, here’s how the organizers describe open access: “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the [...]
Open Access at Antioch
Posted in faculty, information landscape, open access, scholarly communication on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a couple of ways Antioch is supporting open access: ANE’s Environmental Studies doctoral candidates deposit their dissertations in the OhioLINK ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) Center, an open access repository, as do doctoral candidates in Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change program. Dr. Carolyn Kenny, a faculty member in Antioch’s PhD in Leadership [...]
An OA Journal for You
Posted in education, information landscape, open access, psychology, scholarly communication on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open access journal publishing is one way that scholarship and research can be made available to the worldwide community, and a good place to find OA journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Here are some examples from browsing the DOAJ subject lists: Under psychology in social sciences: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, [...]
