Tag Archive: [Open Access & Scholarly Communication]

November 6, 2015

Lingua – editors and editorial board resign

Posted On: November 6, 2015 All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s policies …

October 19, 2015

Open Access Without Tears

Posted On: October 19, 2015 Is there a way to do good, respected research and still make it available to anyone in the world who wants to read it? Actually, …

October 15, 2015

APS Begins Release of Public Access Papers

Posted On: October 15, 2015 American Physical Society News: August 3 2015 As the clamor for open access to scientific research has intensified in recent years, a group of scientific …

September 15, 2015

Peer Review Week Sept 28 – Oct 2

Posted On: September 15, 2015 “Peer review is a subject that – despite the fact that most researchers continue to trust it – divides opinion in the wider scholarly community. …

April 20, 2015

Cataloging Librarian Rebecca Culbertson Wins ALCTS Award

Rebecca Culbertson, an Electronic Resources Cataloging Librarian at UC San Diego, has received the 2015 Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a …

January 21, 2015

New Open Access Programs from UC Press

University of California Press Expands into Open Access with Innovative Journal and Monograph Programs UC Press today announces Collabra and Luminos, two new open access programs for journal and monograph …

October 20, 2014

Open Access Week

Oct 20-26 is International Open Access Week “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use …