Overview of content related to 'open access'
This page provides an overview of 214 articles related to 'open access', listing most recently updated content first. Note that filters may be applied to display a sub-set of articles in this category (see FAQs on filtering for usage tips). Select this link to remove all filters.
Open access (OA) refers to unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals, and increasingly also book chapters or monographs. Open Access comes in two forms, Gratis versus Libre: Gratis OA is no-cost online access, while Libre OA offers some additional usage rights. Open content is similar to OA, but usually includes the right to modify the work, whereas in scholarly publishing it is usual to keep an article's content intact and to associate it with a fixed author. Creative Commons licenses can be used to specify usage rights. The Open Access idea can be extended to the learning objects and resources provided in e-learning. OA can be provided in two ways: 1) "Green OA" is provided by authors publishing in any journal and then self-archiving their postprints in their institutional repository or on some other OA website. Green OA journal publishers endorse immediate OA self-archiving by their authors. 2) "Gold OA" is provided by authors publishing in an open access journal that provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website. (Hybrid open access journals provide Gold OA only for those individual articles for which their authors (or their author's institution or funder) pay an OA publishing fee.) (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Open access publishing)
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Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management |
Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies |
Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2010, issue62, news and events |
Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age |
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! |
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Book Review: Information Science in Transition |
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. |
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Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE |
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment |
Brian Westra describes a data services needs assessment for science research staff at the University of Oregon. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Open Repositories 2010 |
Philip Hunter and Robin Taylor report on the Open Repositories Conference held in Madrid between 6 -9 July 2010 at the Palacio de Congresos. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting |
Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS |
Nick Sheppard reports on the event examining integrated, systemic approaches to research information management organised by the Welsh Repository Network and supported by JISC and ARMA at Leeds Metropolitan University, in May 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Book Review: Digital Information - Order Or Anarchy? |
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a review of a work which examines the future of digital information and emerging patterns of scholarly communication. |
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Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford |
James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm |
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
Repository Fringe 2010 |
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Europeana Open Culture 2010 |
David Fuegi and Monika Segbert-Elbert report on the annual Europeana Conference, held at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam in October 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010 |
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Book Review: Acquisitions in the New Information Universe |
Eilidh Mackay reviews a work which takes a concept-based approach to contemporary acquisitions practices. |
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Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66. |
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Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles |
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
10 Years of Zetoc |
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
International Digital Curation Conference 2010 |
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
Beyond the PDF |
Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges |
Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning |
Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA) |
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment |
Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP). |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector? |
Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services |
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. |
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Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Project Launch Conference |
Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit |
Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres |
Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia |
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Collaborations Workshop 2012: Software, Sharing and Collaboration in Oxford |
Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012. |
April 2012, issue68, event report |
Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Launching a New Community-owned Content Service |
Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
