Open Glossary

Open Glossary

 Open Glossary is a resource designed to equip people with the terminology that is used within discussions about the general field of open scholarship. Additionally, it possesses numerous external resources that may be of use. This has been a crowd-sourced effort (original document),  It will be updated every few months.

http://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/files/2015/02/OpenGlossary1.pdf

Open Access is not free

Paying the Bills 

Open access is not free. By saying that up front, I hope to confound some of the more extreme critics of the open access movement, who sometimes pretend that all OA supporters are dreamy-eyed and woolly-headed librarians who imagine that all information “wants” to be free. So I start from the premise that open access costs money, but I do immediately need to qualify that statement. By definition, open access does not charge the consumers of information any fee for access. It is free in that sense, but not in the sense that there are no costs involved in producing the works or making them freely available. 


See more at: 
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/02/10/paying-bills/

Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey

Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014

As of May 2014, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) listed close to ten thousand fully open access, peer reviewed, scholarly journals. Most of these journals do not charge article processing charges (APCs). This article reports the results of a survey of the 2567 journals, or 26% of journals listed in DOAJ, that do have APCs based on a sample of 1432 of these journals. Results indicate a volatile sector that would make future APCs difficult to predict for budgeting purposes. DOAJ and publisher title lists often did not closely match. A number of journals were found on examination not to have APCs. A wide range of publication costs was found for every publisher type. The average (mean) APC of $964 contrasts with a mode of $0. At least 61% of publishers using APCs are commercial in nature, while many publishers are of unknown types. The vast majority of journals charging APCs (80%) were found to offer one or more variations on pricing, such as discounts for authors from mid to low income countries, differential pricing based on article type, institutional or society membership, and/or optional charges for extras such as English language editing services or fast track of articles. The complexity and volatility of this publishing landscape is discussed 

 See more at: 

http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/3/1/1/htm

Open Education Week March 2015

Open Education Week

Event Date:   Monday March 9, 2015 to Friday March 13, 2015

Event Location: Worldwide

Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. SPARC encourages campuses to participate in this annual international event by organizing events, sharing resources, and taking action to help celebrate the benefits of free and open sharing in education

www.openeducationweek.org
#openeducationwk

Database of Southeast Asian Islamic Manuscripts

Database of Southeast Asian Islamic Manuscripts (D'SAIN)

Database of Nusantara Islam Manuscripts is a database that provides various informations related to Nusantara Islam manuscripts. The database covers a wide range of Nusantara Islam manuscripts-based research—using philological approach or other approaches; conducting by foreign scholars or native scholars. As the center of Nusantara Islam manuscripts, the database not only records the title, author, copyist, language, and literacy texts, but also provides a number of manuscript collections and catalogues including lists, and various publications relating to manuscript which is used as the primary resource of research. 


In addition, the database provides authors and copyists’ biographical information and their activities. Therefore, Database of Nusantara Islam Manuscripts, as the center of information and research on manuscript that can be accessed online, is very important for the manuscripts-based researches and other researches. 

http://fah.uinjkt.ac.id/dsain/

Open Access Journal Kashmir Lit

Kashmir Lit is a platform for all those interested to write about Kashmir, particularly Kashmiri and diaspora writers. We will endeavor to feature credible authors who will

• Enhance awareness of and be a good resource on all things Kashmiri
• Garner moral support from people interested in Kashmir
• Create new opportunities for writing about Kashmir through virtual and actual workshops, and interactions

Kashmir Lit, the word ‘Lit’ should not be confused with being short for “Literature” as in popular parlance. It is to be read as a whole word which means “set afire or burning”

http://www.kashmirlit.org/

Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journals

 Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journals by EGU

EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the geosciences and the planetary and space sciences for the benefit of humanity.

EGU has been providing the open access to a variety of peer reviewed journals.  These diverse list of journals can be accessed throw following

http://www.egu.eu/publications/open-access-journals/

صدور كتاب المستودعات الرقمية على الإنترنت

صدر مؤخرًا عن الهيئة العامة لقصور الثقافة بالقاهرة، كتاب: المستودعات الرقمية على الإنترنت، للزميلة الدكتورة إيمان فوزي عمر.

يشتمل الكتاب على ثلاث فصول: نشأة وتطورالمستودعات الرقمية المفتوحة، و تقييم المستودعات الرقمية المفتوحة على الإنترنت، و تصور مقترح لتأسيس مستودع مؤسسي جامعي على الانترنت.

 

Pakistan Research Repository

Pakistan Research Repository

Pakistan Research Repository is the project of Higher Education HEC Pakistan to promote intellectual work research produced by the academic institute of Pakistan under HEC.
This repository has digitized PhD theses and still in progress to archive more in a high quality digitized format. It provides free and single point access to view the manuscript of research executed, and disseminate this information as far as possible.

Pakistan Research Repository can be searched and browsed by following link

http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/

Open Archives Initiative

Open Archives Initiative: OAI

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Open Archives Initiative is currently an organization and an effort explicitly in transition, and is committed to exploring and enabling this new and broader range of applications.

The Open Archives Initiative working on different projects as

• ResourceSync
• Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
• Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)

The Open Archive Initiative can be accessed at:  

http://www.openarchives.org/