... higher education sector and links up with international Open Access week (19 to 23 October). ... starting point is that the maximum possible number of people should be able to have access to the results of science and scholarship. Ultimately, that will provide ... institutes will be devoting extra attention to the importance of Open Access to the results of research that has been financed with public ...

... knowledge and the fundamental human right to know. Public education, after all, is primarily about access to knowledge: even in the K-12 system the focus is almost exclusively ... enable access to knowledge. Currently, only 20% of all scholarly articles are available through Open Access. The good news is that the percentage is going up, and it's going up thanks to three primary mechanisms. First, ...

... association of organizations that have a common strategic interest in open access to scholarly communication. COAR was formed out ... research organizations in Canada and internationally in support of open access. Participation in COAR is a natural extension ... s objectives which will look at interoperability, raising awareness and promoting Open Access repositories, supporting the repository community ...

... universities, and the general public. We also demonstrated how to find open access journals in the library and on the internet, using an article ... source system that can be used to publish an open access journal, including managing the peer-review process ... discussion progressed we began to consider the feasibility of publishing an open access journal at our college. It was a fascinating (and enjoyable ...

... be counted among the metrics of impact, and rewarded -- but this will only become possible once the content itself is Open Access (OA), hence fully accessible online, ... OA mandates will simply make the causal contingency between access and impact, and between impact and employment/salary/promotion/funding ... new battery of OA metrics of impact) along with fixing the access system.DL: "(2) I love ...

... the Elsevier publishing company that will provide increased access to scholarly journals and reduce costs to UWM. ... nine months and in concert with UW-Madison, provides extended access and converts the titles to which we previously subscribed in print ( ... identifying opportunities for action and producing a set of recommendations on Open Access at UWM. I hope to have more to report on that front as ...