Tag Archives: open access

Open Access Journals in Library and Information Science

If you’re looking for an open access journal to publish in, a great place to learn about which ones are out there is to browse the listings in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Here’s a filtered browse I created for “library science’ journals published in the United States (you can tinker my search to make it more global or to add in other related subjects).

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Great Intro to What a Repository Is

On the Open Access @ CUNY blog, Jill Cirasella has posted a nice entry all about repositories: disciplinary repositories (like arXiv for phyics), institutional repositories (that are tied to a university or college), and commercial repositories (like Academia.edu).

I was especially intrigued by the news that the CUNY Grad Center is about to launch its own institutional repository and that soon(ish) we’ll be seeing a CUNY-wide repository!

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Harvard Business Review Argues That It Is Special

In light of this being Open Access week, I thought I’d share a story about attempts to restrict the flow of information through excessive monetization and metering. Last week, Joshua Gans, a professor of strategic management, argued in an article at FT.com that the Financial Times should drop the Harvard Business Review (HBR) from its list of journals that is uses to rank MBA and EMBA programs (the number of times a school’s faculty publish in 45 key journals is part of the ranking criteria). Gans suggests that because of the exclusive deal that Harvard Business School Press (HBSP) struck with EBSCO that requires schools to pay an additional course use fee for HBR articles used in classes, that journal is now in a special category of publications that is distinctly different from the other 44 titles that FT uses for its ranking criteria. Gans suggests that HBR is now being treated similarly to the case studies series that HBSP.

The next day, Das Narayandas, a senior associate dean and Executive Education and Publishing at the Harvard Business School, responded on the FT.com site with an article that argued HBR is so special and valuable it was fair to charge extra:

But high-quality information – ideas that have been carefully crafted by authors and editors to make sense to managers and to achieve maximum impact – comes at a cost.

One hopes that other publishers don’t follow suit and argue that they too have journals that are equally special and start striking similarly restrictive deals with aggregators like EBSCO and ProQuest.

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Tech Sharecase, 21 October 2011

Attendees
Janey Chao, Stephen Francoeur, Rita Ormsby, Ryan Phillips, Mike Waldman

Digital Public Library of America
We took a look at the demo site for the ShelfLife-Library Cloud interface that the Harvard Library Innovation Lab put together for its proposal to the Digital Public Library of America. We also discussed what the mission of the Digital Public Library of America could be or should be (or could never be).

Going Public with Price Hike Info
We talked about this blog post by Barbara Fister that shed light on price hikes at her library for SAGE and ACS journals. This led to a larger discussion of big deal journal subscriptions and open access publishing in general.

Foreign Language Dictionaries and Language Instruction
We discussed a few options for foreign language dictionaries (notable Oxford Dictionaries Online) and language instruction (Mango, which we have a trial for, and Rosetta Stone).

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Google Search Stories

This afternoon, using the Google Search Stories service I spent all of 5 minutes putting together this video on open access. I’m wondering if there might be an interesting and fun classroom activity to do with students that has them using this service.

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OpenSciNY: Free Conference at NYU

NYU’s Bobst Library is hosting a free conference, OpenSciNY, on May 14 that looks like it will be very interesting. The conference website notes that the event will focus on discussing the “impact of publicly accessible scientific tools & resources, open access publishing in the sciences, and open data/notebook efforts.”

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