THE OPEN ACCESS SITUATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITION COUNTRIES: A Report from the EIFL General Assembly 2010 in Lund : http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/news/media/open-access-situation-in/downloadFile/file/EIFL_GA_2010_Lund.pdf?nocache=1285575761.09
Open Source Software Libraries : « Open …
Open Source Software Libraries :
« Open source software is not something to be afraid of! It’s software that you can modify, fix, add to, and distribute to others. Benefits are numerous, including having the ability to create good software that works for you and your library, all while paying a fraction of the cost that you might spend on proprietary software. This website introduces librarians to using open source software and provides tips for implementing and evaluating your transition, ideas for funding, and suggestions for open source software to use in your library. »
URL : http://ir.uiowa.edu/bsides/17/
Open Libraries: More than Just Open Book…
Open Libraries: More than Just Open Books or Open Doors : http://data.memberclicks.com/site/ola/olaq_16no3.pdf
Free to Learn Guide : « Open Educational…
Free to Learn Guide :
« Open Educational Resources (OER) offer higher education governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving the quality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing costs imposed on students related to the purchase of expensive commercial textbooks and learning materials. Leading scholars around the world are already participating in the OER movement even without support from most higher education institutions, including community colleges. Higher education governance officials, particularly boards of trustees and senior academic governance leaders, have a tremendous opportunity to harness the advantages of OER for their institutions. »
URL : http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Free_to_Learn_Guide
eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) : « The …
eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) :
« The eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a powerful open source platform for providing access to digital content. Developed and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL), XTF functions as the primary access technology for the CDL’s digital collections and other digital projects worldwide. »
URL : http://xtf.cdlib.org/
Towards Scholarly Communication 2.0: Pee…
Towards Scholarly Communication 2.0: Peer-to-Peer Review & Ranking in Open Access Preprint Repositories :
« In this paper we present our unified peer-to-peer review model for Open Access preprint repositories. Its objective is to improve the efficiency and effectivity of digital scholarly communication. The key elements of this model are standardized quality assessment instruments, public and private communication channels, special rankings and novel incentives. The model allows scholars to proficiently evaluate both the manuscripts and their peer reviews. These scrutinized manuscripts and peer reviews will then be made available to the relevant parties. These standardized quality assessments allow for new quality metrics for papers and peer reviews. The Reviewer Impact, which represents the peer review proficiency and peer review output of scholars, is one such metric. The model includes diverse rankings for scholars to appear in to receive better odds of having their own manuscripts noticed, read, peer reviewed and cited. Their specific ranking is proportional to their Reviewer Impact and the overall quality of their manuscripts. The Open Access preprint repository model is a suitable foundation for our model because of its high degree of accessibility, but little to no certification of its deposited manuscripts. With this combination we envision a novel, Open Access, peer-to-peer scholarly communication model that functions independently of, but not incompatibly with, the traditional journal publishing model: Scholarly Communication 2.0. »
URL : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1681478
PEER : Annual Report – Year 2
PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC eContentplus programme, is investigating the potential effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research.
The project has recently been granted a nine month extension and will now run until May 2012.
URL : http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/reports/D9_8_annual_public_report_20100930.pdf