Overview of content related to 'open access'
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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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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 |
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 |
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 |
View from the Hill: Birkbeck |
Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
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 |
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 |
Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest |
Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. |
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5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment |
Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
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 |
DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow |
William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) |
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36. |
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eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning |
Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment |
Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop |
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2003, issue36, news and events |
Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff |
Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
ECDL-2003 Conference Notes |
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop |
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2003, issue37, news and events |
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries |
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage? |
Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project |
Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop |
Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon |
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2004, issue39, news and events |
Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements |
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing |
Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers |
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2004, issue40, news and events |
The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience |
Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |