WattJournals: Towards an Economic and Li…

WattJournals: Towards an Economic and Lightweight Search Tool Alternative for Libraries To Help Their Students and Researchers Keep Up-To-Date :

“Learn how Heriot-Watt University Library’s WattJournals could be just the search tool your patrons need to efficiently find the content that your library subscribes to. Built on top of a RESTful search API created by the JISC-sponsored JournalTOCs Project, WattJournals is a toolkit for connecting fulltext articles to the people who need them. This article provides a technical overview of the system, showing how it uses citation data pulled from the JournalTOCs table of contents awareness service to provide access to just your library’s subscriptions.”

URL : http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4134

Open Access repositories and journals fo…

Open Access repositories and journals for visibility: Implications for Malaysian libraries :

“This paper describes the growth of Open Access (OA) repositories and journals as reported by monitoring initiatives such as ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories), Open DOAR (Open Directory of Open Access Repositories), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Directory of Web Ranking of World Repositories by the Cybermetrics Laboratory in Spain and published literature. The performance of Malaysian OA repositories and journals is highlighted. The strength of OA channels in increasing visibility and citations are evidenced by research findings. It is proposed that libraries champion OA initiatives by making university or institutional governance aware; encouraging institutional journal publishers to adopt OA platform; collaborating with research groups to jumpstart OA institutional initiatives and to embed OA awareness into user and researcher education programmes. By actively involved, libraries will be free of permission, licensing and archiving barriers usually imposed in traditional publishing situation.”

URL : http://majlis.fsktm.um.edu.my/detail.asp?AID=960

Analyse prospective du libre accès en Fr…

Analyse prospective du libre accès en France :

“Dresser un panorama et identifier les enjeux liés au développement du libre accès en France ont été les objectifs de l’étude que nous avons menée. Pour réaliser cette étude, nous avons emprunté une méthode de travail d’une autre discipline, la prospective, qui est souvent utilisée dans le domaine du management stratégique. L’analyse structurelle, la première étape de la prospective, est utilisée dans le cadre général de cette méthode à la fois pour dresser un panorama de l’environnement de l’entreprise et pour identifier les questions clés liées au développement de celle-ci. Par le biais de la méthode MICMAC (Matrice d’Impacts Croisés—Multiplication Appliquée à un Classement), nous avons pu identifier que les principaux enjeux liés au développement du libre accès en France seraient le développement des mandats obligatoires, les politiques de l’Union européenne et les embargos liés à l’auto-archivage. Ces enjeux devront s’articuler autour de deux spécificités françaises, à savoir HAL, l’archive ouverte disciplinaire et nationale, et l’environnement disparate de la recherche publique française.”

URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00537239/fr/

10 years of Malaria Journal: how did Ope…

10 years of Malaria Journal: how did Open Access change publication patterns ? :

“Fifteen years ago, most publications were paper-based, accessible only by subscription. By the late 1990s, this ‘traditional’ mode of access to scientific literature was about to change dramatically, as the result of the development of Open Access. This Editorial, written as Malaria Journal reaches its 10th birthday, looks at the impact of the Open Access movement on publication in the field of tropical medicine in general and malaria in particular.”
URL : http://www.malariajournal.com/content/9/1/284

First results of the SOAP project. Open …

First results of the SOAP project. Open access publishing in 2010 :

“The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has compiled data on the present offer for open access publishing in online peer-reviewed journals. Starting from the Directory of Open Access Journals, several sources of data are considered, including inspection of journal web site and direct inquiries within the publishing industry. Several results are derived and discussed, together with their correlations: the number of open access journals and articles; their subject area; the starting date of open access journals; the size and business models of open access publishers; the licensing models; the presence of an impact factor; the uptake of hybrid open access.”

URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0506

L’économie de l’attention pour le Libre Accès : Le cas de Revues.org dans les bibliothèques universitaires

Dans un contexte d‘offre documentaire électronique en pleine expansion, le concept d‘économie de l‘attention s‘impose : ce qui devient rare – et donc cher, précieux – n‘est plus l‘information en elle-même mais bien la capacité d‘attention que des usagers ou consommateurs potentiels peuvent lui porter. Définition, pères fondateurs, concepts liés et champs d‘application (management de l’attention, stratégies marketing, économie des biens culturels et informationnels numériques) de l’économie de l’attention sont présentés.

Le mémoire interroge dans un second temps la manière dont les ressources Open Access (Gold OA) s’inscrivent dans l’économie de l’attention des bibliothèques universitaires; il rend compte d’une enquête de terrain qui vient à la fois infirmer et confirmer pour partie la contradiction théorique qui peut exister entre leur mission souveraine d’acquisition des ressources et un engagement manifeste dans le Gold OA.

URL : http://memsic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/mem_00521126/fr/

Open access publishing – Models and Attr…

Open access publishing – Models and Attributes :
“The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has compiled data on the present offer for open access publishing in online peer-reviewed journals. Starting from the Directory of Open Access Journals, several sources of data are considered, including inspection of journal web site and direct inquiries within the publishing industry. Several results are derived and discussed, together with their correlations: the number
of open access journals and articles; their subject area; the starting date of open access journals; the size and business models of open access publishers; the licensing models; the presence of an impact factor; the uptake of hybrid open access. In addition, a number of qualitative features of open access publishing, relevant to understand the present landscape, are described.”
URL : http://edoc.mpg.de/478647