10 Friday Jul 2015
Posted in New titles added to JURN
The DOAJ’s new ‘one article, one page’ feature is live and visible to Google Search. The DOAJ had previously announced that, sometime in 2015, “every single article entry in DOAJ will have, once again, its own landing page”. The DOAJ article pages at https://doaj.org/article/* are now included in JURN. Usually a DOAJ result only shows up when Google can’t find/show the article at its actual location.
10 Friday Jul 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
Open Library of Humanities has just landed a grant for $741,000…
“Birkbeck, University of London has been awarded a three-year grant of $741,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to cement and expand a new model for open-access publishing in the humanities disciplines.”
This is to be centred on making a peer-reviewed open access…
“mega-journal, multi-journal and books platform for the humanities”, “with no author-facing charges”.
No full-text search and access at the OLH, as yet. But it looks like many major university libraries are signing up in principle.
09 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
Juan Pablo Alperin, “The Public Impact of Latin America’s Approach to Open Access”, June 2015.
“It is evident that the degree of adoption of the OA models is fairly extensive [in Latin America], although there are no exact figures. … The highest estimate, although not based on a rigorous study, comes from the director of SciELO, an expert in scholarly communications in Latin America, who suggests that 95% of all online journals published within the region are fully OA. Unfortunately, none of the databases that collect subscription information provide an adequate sample from which to gather a more exact estimate.”
“The underlying assumption, found repeatedly in the OA literature, is that the OA portals in Latin America are seen as contributing to “development” by extending the readership and circulation of Latin American research, thereby connecting them to a global “system of science” [but until now] nobody has attempted to verify the underlying assumption that there is interest from a broader community of readers in accessing research from developing regions.”
06 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
The DOAJ has removed a very large list of journal titles from the publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing Inc.), along with the titles of SCIRP’s Chinese associate publisher Hans Publishers Inc., citing alleged “Editorial misconduct” from both publishers.
Neither publisher was directly indexed in JURN.
03 Friday Jul 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
Imaggeo : the open access geosciences image repository. A very large hi-res selection, but sadly users can’t filter by CC licence type. I’d say they need a new category: ‘Commercial use allowed’, so that print media workers can easily find a hi-res image to illustrate a science or eco news item.
