Register now to take part in the first international discovery summit : JISC

Last 15 places now available - register online and join the first international discovery summit, in London on 21-22 February.  Jisc and the British Library are calling university librarians and archivists, library staff, museum curators and expert developers from across the globe to ask ‘how is open data transforming the world’s great collections at universities, galleries, libraries, archives and museums from being on the internet, to being of the internet?’

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Fighting for Open Access

Feature in ComputerWorld UK about the suicide of  Open Access activist Aaron Swartz:
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/01/fighting-for-open-access/index.htm

Further comment here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21001452

Investigation ordered by MIT:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21011663

Comment from US Attorney:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/17/aaron-swartz-attorney-defends-actions 

Piece in New Statesman: The Aaron Swartz lesson: how undeveloped laws target the vulnerable
http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2013/01/the-aaron-swartz-lesson

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

CORE aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.

The mission of CORE is to:

• Support the right of citizens and general public to access the results of research towards which they contributed by paying taxes.
• Facilitate access to Open Access content for all by targeting general public, software developers, researchers, etc., by improving search and navigation using state-of-the-art technologies in the field of natural language processing and the Semantic Web.
• Provide support to both content consumers and content providers by working with digital libraries and institutional repositories.
• Contribute to a cultural change by promoting Open Access.

You can search CORE at: http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search     

Green or gold? Open access after Finch

 The Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings reported to the UK's Minister of Universities and Science in mid-2012. This was followed by a new policy for open access (OA) publishing by Research Councils UK (RCUK) as well as a commitment from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to require that research submitted to future research evaluation exercises – after the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) – be open access. These initiatives build on a broad consensus, that includes for-profit publishers, that open access is the way of the future. Here, I give a perspective on these issues, both as the head of an institution with particular interests in the future of scholarly publication and also as a member of the Working Group on Expanding Access. The continuing development of informed debate will be critical for the future of the scholarly publishing system.

Insights: Vol. 25 Issue 3: p. 235

Frederick Friend: Where we are now in opening research results and ...

Frederick Friend: Where we are now in opening research results and ...

Open Access Explained! - YouTube

Open Access Explained! - YouTube