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STM Submission to the HEFCE Consultation

admin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:41:13 +0000

Response from the International Association of STM Publishers to the letter from HEFCE seeking early input to help shape the consultation on the role of open access publishing in submissions to the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Download the letter … Continue reading →

Taylor & Francis Open Access survey results show diverse author opinions

admin — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:49:38 +0000

A survey of over 14,000 authors conducted by Taylor & Francis reveals a wide variety of opinions across Open Access licensing, policies and article submission practices.

Highlighted in recent a press release, their dataset indicates that in terms of the available licensing options for Open Access publication, authors could be satisfied by a mixed offering of the traditional (Exclusive
Licence to Publish/ Copyright Assignment) and the new (CC BY-NC-ND/ CC BY-NC). However, the results of the survey suggest that there is still a need for a choice of licensing options and that clear guidance should be provided to authors on CC-BY licenses, which in this survey was cited as authors ‘least preferred’ licensing option.

Read the complete survey results and report:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/open-access-survey-march2013.pdf

Open letter to STM Members: SHERPA Tool for RCUK OA Policy

admin — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:40:12 +0000

Download the open letter here.

Text Mining and Scholarly Publishing

admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:47:23 +0000

What is text mining? How does it relate to data mining? Why do people want to do text mining? How does it work? What do publishers need to do to support text mining?

Download Jonathan Clark's Report

Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations Laid Before Parliament

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:44:44 +0000

On 28 January, the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013 were laid before parliament.

The regulations seek to ensure that the Legal Deposit Libraries (LDLs) can provide a national archive of the UK’s non-print published material, such as websites, blogs, e-journals and e-books in a way that does not prejudice publishers’ commercial interests and that respects copyright ownership. In doing so, they address the important challenge of preserving the nation’s digital heritage for future generations. Researchers of the future will be able to study and analyse a comprehensive source of material within LDLs which accurately reflects UK society today.

Libraries and publishers have worked collaboratively, through the Joint Committee on Legal Deposit, to establish the principle and content of the regulations. They will be implemented in April this year, at which point the archiving of our digital heritage by LDLs can begin in earnest.

Download the Joint Communication

Open letter to publishers on CC-BY licences

admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:13:17 +0000

The PDF can be downloaded here.

AAUP appoints Peter M. Berkery incoming Executive Director effective March 13, 2013

jkuta — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:13:03 +0000

November 16, 2012 (New York, NY)—The Board of Directors of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has named Peter M. Berkery, Jr., the next Executive Director of the Association, starting March 1, 2013.

Berkery comes to AAUP from Oxford University Press, where he has served for the last 4 years as Vice President and Publisher for the US Law Division. Prior to that he worked for Wolters Kluwer for 11 years in a series of positions, publishing works on securities licensing examination training, securities law, taxation, and financial planning.

http://bit.ly/U3VvCc

Research4Life publisher partners commit to free and low cost access through 2020.

jkuta — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:10:30 +0000

14 November 2012. London, United Kingdom – London, November 14th, 2012 – The Research4Life partners announced today that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020. Research4Life (www.research4life.org) currently provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. The renewed commitment will ensure that the 18,000 peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases now available through the public-private Research4life partnership will continue to reach research communities in low- and middle-income countries.
http://bit.ly/X9MNWN

Irish Government announces National Open Access Policy

jkuta — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:53:57 +0000

24 October 2012. Ireland’s National Principles for Open Access – announced by Minister Sean Sherlock at noon today. A national statement on Open Access policy for all publicly-funded research in Ireland has been agreed by all Irish research funding councils … Continue reading →

Publishers and Google Reach Settlement Agreement

jkuta — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:25:53 +0000

Thursday, 04 October 2012 | Andi Sporkin

Mountain View, CA and Washington, DC; October 4, 2012 — The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers’ in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.

The agreement settles a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google on October 19, 2005 by five AAP member publishers. As the settlement is between the parties to the litigation, the court is not required to approve its terms.

http://www.publishers.org/press/85/