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EU Open Access to Research Data STM Written Contribution

Open Access Licensing

Open Access Licensing Making Open Access Licensing Work   Whilst licensing terms should be easy to find, easy to read and easy to interpret, Open Access to scholarly materials now presents publishers and authors alike with a wide variety of user licence options to copyright-protected works, including bespoke licences that individual publishers have created and…

Twelve Points to Make Open Access Licensing Work

Open Access Licensing Best Practice Public Statement

Spring Conference USA – Cotta – A European Policy on Open Access

Spring Conference USA – Taylor – Gold Open Access UK Style

Taylor & Francis Open Access survey results show diverse author opinions

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…

SHERPA Tool for RCUK New Open Access Policy

FACT1 – Seeley – Open Access and Creative Licensing

FACT1 – Joshua – Licensing in an Open Access Environment

FACT1 – Dixon – Licensing in an open access environment: The publishing view

E-Production – Mellins Cohen – Open Access Production

IJC USA – Nolan – Open Access

Irish Government announces National Open Access Policy

 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 and research institutes.  http://bit.ly/TaC9Xi

UK Government invests £10 million to help universities move to Open Access

07 September 2012 10:00 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills A £10 million Government investment announced today by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts will help universities with the transition to open access to publicly-funded research findings. The investment will enable a number of research-intensive UK institutions to kick-start the process of developing policies and…

European Commission embraces Open Access

17 July 2012. Scientific data: open access to research results will boost Europe’s innovation capacityThe European Commission today outlined measures to improve access to scientific information produced in Europe. Broader and more rapid access to scientific papers and data will make it easier for researchers and businesses to build on the findings of public-funded research….

David Willetts: U.K. publicly-funded research to be made open access

16 July 2012. The government is to make sure that publicly-funded research is made freely available to the public, starting as soon as late 2013, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts announced on 16 July. Currently most formally published research is only available behind paywalls. From late 2013 or early 2014, publicly-funded research will be…

RCUK announces new Open Access policy

16 July 2012Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today, 16th July 2012, unveiled its new Open Access policy. Informed by the work of the National Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Professor Dame Janet Finch, the policy at once harmonises and makes significant changes to existing Research Councils’ Open Access policies….

Wellcome Trust strengthens its open access policy

28 June 2012. The Wellcome Trust today announces that it will be strengthening the manner in which it enforces its open access policy with immediate effect. Failure to comply with the policy could result in final grant payments being withheld and non-compliant publications being discounted when applying for further funding. http://bit.ly/MY32e9  

STM Press Release – PEER partners consensus on Gold Open Access

29 May 2012. STM welcomes support for gold open access from PEER conference ‘Gold’ open access publication is the practical route to achieving sustainable open access, the project partners agreed today at the PEER End of Project results conference in Brussels. The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project, which will report to the…

STM Press Release PEER Partners Consensus on Gold Open Access

Publishers Support Sustainable Open Access

Publishers Support Sustainable Open Access Publishers are committed to the widest possible dissemination of and access to the content they publish. We support any and all sustainable models of access that ensure the integrity and permanence of the scholarly record. Such options include ‘gold’ open access, whereby publication is funded by an article publishing charge…

Publishers Support Sustainable Open Access

Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Leading Open Access STM Journal Publisher (Medknow)in India

Philadelphia, PA (December 5, 2011) – Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that it has acquired Medknow PVT Ltd., a leading Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) journal publishing operation headquartered in Mumbai, India and one of the largest open access publishers in the world. The acquisition expands Wolters Kluwer Health’s Medical Research business’ presence in key…

Thirty-three North American research institutions endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge

November 9, 2011. Washington, DC – Thirty-three research institutions, associations, and foundations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have made a commitment to Open Access to research by signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. These top private, public, and non-profit organizations join nearly 300 more from around…

Frankfurt Conference – Hall – Open Access Engage or Oppose

PA – ALPSP Journal Publishers’ Forum – Open access: the next ten years

Special rate for STM, ALPSP and PA members. 31 March 2011, London, UK. Open to publishers only. Places are limited  – an early registration is recommended.

Wiley launches new program of open access journals

On Feb 1, Wiley announced the launch of Wiley Open Access – a program of open access journals, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences, including neuroscience, microbiology, ecology and evolution.

Study of Open Access Publishing presents findings

The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project presented the results of its two year European Commissiion (EU) funded examination of open access publishing January 13, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

STM and Open Access PEER Madrid 17 June 2010

IJC Europe – Goerner – Open Access – Basics, Numbers, News

Berlin 7 Open Access Conference Paris 2 Dec 09 – Steven Hall Pesentation

Berlin 7 Open Access Conference Paris 2 Dec 09 Steven Hall Powerpoint

STM Response to SFI Open Access Policy

Frankfurt Conference Author Open Access Oxford Journals

Frankfurt Conference Open Access Open for Business

STM Position on NIH Open Access Proposal

STM Response to Request for Information (RFI) on NSF Public Access Plan 2.0: Ensuring Open, Immediate, and Equitable Access to National Science Foundation Funded Research (88 FR 85664)

Access / Open Science

Access / Open Science The Public Affairs committee have provided the following resources:   Signatories publish statement on Rights Retention Strategy  Each of the undersigned publishers and societies have long been committed to Open Research and the broadening of Open Access options for researchers. They offer a wide variety of paths to Open Access, including Open Access journals, hybrid journal options, article self-archiving, and transformative (including…

STM joins Year of Open Science

In accordance with STM’s mission to advance credible and accessible research, STM has joined a coalition of US federal agencies, organizations, and universities in supporting the Year of Open Science and NASA’s Transform to Open Science initiative.  As a part of the coalition, STM and other member organizations commit to transforming the culture of science…

Change ahead! How a new web standard will change access to online scholarly resources

Moderated by: Heather Flanagan, Principal Consultant at Spherical Cow Consulting Academia has long been concerned with the privacy and security of their personnel and students online. Big tech is under pressure to do the same, but their focus is on the consumer web. What happens when web browsers are redesigned to optimize for consumer-type transactions but…

STM Solutions in search of a Product Manager of ‘Access & Identity Solutions’

Update: This position has been filled. ___ STM Solutions is looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead the development and implementation of cross-industry solutions that improve the access experience for researchers and that support new modalities for how scholarly content can be discovered and delivered.   The Product Manager will lead the further development of…

SeamlessAccess Webinar

Understanding the Challenges around Where-Are-You-From (WAYF) Moderated by: Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions There are many ways to manage access to remote resources. From the use of IP addresses via VPN or proxy services to federated identity, the goal of enabling access to remote content is both easier and more complicated than ever…

Statement: STM’s response to the OSTP memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research

STM is committed to advancing trusted research in partnership with all stakeholders in the research ecosystem. We have been partners with the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and federal agencies on implementation of current US public access policy, and have invested heavily in collective initiatives to support open research practices, including research…

STM Trends 2026 Webinar: The Beauty of Open at Scale

There are limited seats available.  Please register at your earliest convenience. Presented by: Eefke Smit, Director of Standards and Technology, STM   Please join the STM China Chapter and Japan Chapter for this member-only webinar to introduce STM Trends 2026.  STM Trends is an annual project of STM to identify the leading trends in the STM…

Introduction to Seamless Access

Free to attend – Monday 10th May 2021   With researchers, faculty, and students increasingly working from a wide range of locations, both on- and off-campus, easy and streamlined access to online scholarly content is more important than ever. SeamlessAccess is a service designed for exactly this. It helps foster a more streamlined online access…

Open Exploration Publishing Inc.

Open Success

Open Success One of the biggest changes in the history of academic publishing has been the movement towards Open Access, where scholarly articles are free to read, download, copy, distribute, and print at the time of publication. This movement to remove paywalls has been enthusiastically embraced by publishers who have made huge advances in the…

Implementing Seamless Access and GetFTR, a free Webinar from STM. EU/ US East and West

Presentations from this event are available below: Atypon Seamless GetFTR  GetFTR Presentation  Griffey – Current state of SA Two industry initiatives focused on improving access to scholarly information, SeamlessAccess and GetFTR, have made much progress this year, seeing uptake from major publishers and platforms and growing usage. Providing streamlined, easy-to-use access to remote users is…

Implementing Seamless Access and GetFTR, a free Webinar from STM. APAC/EU

Presentations from this event are available below: Atypon Seamless GetFTR  GetFTR Presentation  Griffey – Current state of SA Two industry initiatives focused on improving access to scholarly information, SeamlessAccess and GetFTR, have made much progress this year, seeing uptake from major publishers and platforms and growing usage. Providing streamlined, easy-to-use access to remote users is…