Overview of content related to 'open access'
This page provides an overview of 101 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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Gold Open Access: Counting the Costs |
Theo Andrew presents new data on the cost of Gold OA publishing at the University of Edinburgh. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management |
Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia |
Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals |
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
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 |
Making the Most of a Conference |
Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments |
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content. |
July 2012, issue69, 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project |
Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications |
Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery |
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York |
Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences |
Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian introduce the OJIMS Project and discuss the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project |
Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare |
Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
EThOS: from Project to Service |
Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe |
Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Publish and Cherish With Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems |
Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders to extend OA publishing conditions by stimulating the market. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content |
Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access |
Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions |
R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies |
Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |