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Open Access News & Overview

This site is designed to provide news and background information about the open access movement to the University of Oregon community. It is not intended to be comprehensive.

News Items : National and International

• Open Access News Blog (continuously updated)
• 13 August 2005: Open Access and Peer Review : Time and Cost Savings
• 12 August 2005: First Fruits of the NIH PUblic Access Policy
• 28 June 2005: Research Councils UK Statement on Open Access
• 15 May 2005: Cornell University Faculty Senate Endorses Resolution on Open Access and Scholarly Communication
• 21 April 2005: Columbia University Senate Endorses Open Access
• 11 Apr. 2005: Open Access Journals Flourish
• 04 Apr. 2005: Webcast on Open Access Publishing
• 28 March 2005: Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
• 07 Mar. 2005: American Chemical Society Broadens Access to Its Articles
• 10 Jan. 2005: Southampton Uni Goes Open Access

News items : UO

• 28 Mar. 2005: Inside Oregon Takes it to the Bank
• 18 Jan. 2005: New Scholars' Bank Serves as Faculty Research Repository
• 19 Apr. 2004: UO Libraries Helps Test New Online Search Service

Background information

According to the Wikipedia:

The open access movement (also known as open-access publishing and free online scholarship) is an effort to grant access to a large variety of up-to-date information sources for free. Correspondingly, the open access paradigm focuses on allowing all members of society to freely access relevant cultural and scientific achievements, in particular by encouraging the free (online) availability of such information. This includes both the authors' general agreement to a work's free distribution and the implementation of a suitable (technical) infrastructure that allows for such a distribution. Click here for more detail.

• Open Access Working Group
• Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving (Sherpa) (continuously updated)
• May 2005: Open Access Self Archiving: An Author Study (104 pages)
  • Abstract and References for Open Access Self Archiving
• April 2005: Open Access Briefing Paper / Joint Information Systems Committee
• 15 Mar. 2005: Funding the Way to Open Access / Robert Terry
• 18 Feb. 2005: The Reailty of Open-Access Journal Articles / Andy Gass and Helen Doyle
• 2004: Authors and Open Access Publishing / Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown
• 22 Oct. 2003: Berlin Declaration on Open Access

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