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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South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides |
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch |
Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia |
Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative |
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit |
Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes |
Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for Day-to-day Use |
Richard Green and Chris Awre describe work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart of its personalised digital repository provision. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK |
Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Version Identification: A Growing Problem |
Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future |
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe |
Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands |
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
Googlepository and the University Library |
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories |
Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries |
Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Repository Thrills and Spills |
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors |
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community |
Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University |
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects |
Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production |
It's not like writing a paper. Film production, when the camera points at you, can challenge all sorts of sensitivities. Steve Hitchcock survived the ordeal to tell the story of the Preserv Project video. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works |
Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care? |
Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project |
Suziki Masako and Sugita Shigeki describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository |
Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis |
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers |
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice |
Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective |
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories |
Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
DARE Project Chronology |
To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service |
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication |
Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity |
Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community |
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Trust in Global Virtual Teams |
Niki Panteli identifies ways of developing trust within global virtual teams. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools |
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives |
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |