Open Access Update - a snapshot of OA this week

Published: Mon, 2013-03-04 10:31 by Jane Smeathers

OA logo.jpg A constant flurry of open access developments are underway at UQ, national and international levels.

At UQ

UQ Library made Peter Suber's Open Access book available via ebrary. The catalogue description: A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is, showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.
Helen Morgan, Andrew Heath and I have prepared materials for a talk we are giving at the School of Pharmacy, spotlighting open access and pharmacy.

Presentation / Two Tables (249.6 KB) illustrate how we can achieve open access without paying commercial publisher rates.

In Australia

The Australian Open Access Support Group. From this site Dr Danny Kingsley provides an excellent summary of recent major open access developments.

Around the World

On 22 February 2013 the Obama administration announced a New Open access policy known as the White House Directive.

"Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research"requiring Federal agencies that spend over $100 million in research and development to have a plan developed by 2014 to "support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government." This policy incorporates both scientific publications and digital scientific data, and limits embargo periods to twelve months post-publication.

"Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR)" was introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in February after three unsuccessful previous attempts. This Bill is also restricted to agencies with research budgets of more than $100 million and it requires deposit of research findings in a repository in a format that allows for text or data mining. It differs in that it has an embargo of only 6 months.

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