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02 أبريل 2015

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Springer and Jisc agree model to reduce cost of open access and subscriptions


Springer SBM and Jisc have agreed an arrangement to take into account UK scientists’ need to comply with multiple open access policies while accessing scientific articles published by Springer, while containing the combined costs of article processing charges and subscriptions.
The proposed agreement will cap the amount paid by UK higher education (HE) institutions to subscribe and maintain full access to Springer’s subscription journals and to make their researchers’ articles open access in those journals – the latter being in compliance with the requirements of HEFCE’s Research Excellence Framework, RCUK’s open access policy and other major funders such as the Charity Open Access Fund. 


The two parties hope the agreement will significantly reduce the cost and administration barriers to hybrid open access publishing for UK academic institutions, while supporting the transition to open access in a transparent and sustainable way.
Jisc and Springer first entered into negotiations in response to changes to the UK’s open access requirements in early 2014. Jisc supports education and research through digital services, and approached Springer with a clear mandate and objectives to contain the costs to UK institutions. 
'Springer is proud to work so closely with Jisc on this new direction in science publishing,' says Roné Robbetze, vice president for sales in north-western Europe and Africa. 'The UK has taken a major step in further developing open access and we are happy to be the first to have such a far-reaching arrangement here.'

Lorraine Estelle, executive director of digital resources and divisional CEO of Jisc Collections, added: 'Jisc sees the development of these models as essential in order to contain the total cost of ownership of scholarly communication. Springer has shown a deep understanding of the issue and contributed proactively in finding a model that addresses the needs of UK higher education institutions as they lead in the transition to open access.'


01 يناير 2015

Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources ROAD

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ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO.  Launched as a beta version on 16th December 2013, 

ROAD provides a free access to a subset of the ISSN Register (1,7 millions of bibliographic records, available on subscription, http://www.issn.org/en/understanding-the-issn/the-issn-international-register/). This subset comprises  bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access which have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network : journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories. ROAD records are also downloadable as a MARC XML dump and will be available as RDF triples in 2014.

The bibliographic records are enriched, when appropriate, by metadata about the coverage of the resources by indexing, abstracting, citation databases, registries and journal indicators.

ROAD serves four major purposes  :

  • It provides a single access point to different types of online scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available.

  • It also provides information about the quality and prominence of OA resources, or at least the criteria they meet, by indicating by what services or journal indicators they are covered

  • as such, and once the coverage of ROAD is developed, to give an overview of the Open Access scholarly production worldwide (for statistics purposes for instance)

  • ROAD demonstrate new ways of using the ISSN for compiling information from various sources.

Follow the link to search the ROAD Resources



18 سبتمبر 2014

Open Access Directory

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is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them, use them for reference, and update them. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA. To see what it has, browse its table of contents, browse the table of categories, or use the search box. To help the cause, just register and start editing.
OAD is a wiki and depends on the OA community to keep it comprehensive and up to date. It welcome you to register, make additions and corrections to existing OAD lists, propose new lists, and share your ideas on other ways to improve the OAD. - Robin Peek and the OAD Editorial Team.

OAD is a wiki and it count on its users to keep these lists accurate, comprehensive, and up to date. Its goal is for the OA community itself to maintain the lists with little intervention from the editors or editorial board. It welcome your contributions to the lists, ideas for new lists, and comments to help us improve. Please contact us or use the discussion tabs on individual pages. The OAD is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science atSimmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.

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