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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Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Open Archive Forum Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives |
Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002. CNR, Pisa. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive |
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge |
Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest |
Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Looking Back in Anger: A Retrospective |
Don Revill, former Head of Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a retrospective. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Building on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations |
Clive Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
View from the Hill: Birkbeck |
Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Down Your Way: Queen's University Library |
Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Data Archive at the University of Essex |
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
Are They Being Served? |
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
ResIDe: Electronic Reserve for UK Universities |
Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
JILT: Journal of Information, Law and Technology |
Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
