Digitization of fragile film and video resources is the first step towards making sure they are preserved into the future. Yale University's department of Manuscripts and Archives published an example of a video from The Fortunoff Video Archive Holocaust Testimonies, a historic collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, to demonstrate how important it is not only to digitize video resources, but to do it as soon as possible.…

Just in time for Open Access Week 2012 the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF) have now finalized their Science Policy Briefing on Open Access in Biomedical Research. This report aims to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the biomedical sciences.…

Since last week that U.Porto has spread the news about the International Open Access Week within its academic and scientific community and about the activities that started yesterday with the creation of a specific area at the Information System of the university, dedicated to open access events that occur during these days - https://sigarra.up.pt/reitoria/pt/web_base.gera_pagina?p_pagina=1012466.

http://blog.inasp.info/

On the occasion of the OA Week 2012 I had an interview with Stevan Harnad on

Open Access 2012: achievements, further steps and obstacles.

http://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/europa-medicophysica/article.php?cod=R33Y2012N03A0535

This year Digital.CSIC takes part in the OA Week through an outreach campaign in which CSIC researchers give their opinion on how open access improves scholarly communication and share their experience with the institutional repository of the Spanish National Research Council. CSIC repository has also participated in a recent Briefing Report on open access in Biomedicine.

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Semana Internacional del Acceso Abierto

Exhibe el logo del Acceso Abierto ... !!!

http://www.picbadges.com/open-access-movement/16494/…

Fascinating panel discussion with representatives from SPARC, World Bank, National Association of Graduate-Professional Students et al. http://live.worldbank.org/world-bank-and-sparc-announce-open-access-week-2012-liveblog-webcast

Background

Open access (OA) is a revolutionary way of providing access to the scholarly journal literature made possible by the Internet. The primary aim of this study was to measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journals from 2000 to 2011, while observing longitudinal internal shifts in the structure of OA publishing concerning revenue models, publisher types and relative distribution among scientific disciplines. The secondary aim was to measure…

I work at the Nairobi headquarters of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as a communications specialist with the Markets, Gender & Livelihoods research theme. ILRI's focus is on livestock research towards sustainable development and a food secure future. We work in East, West and southern Africa, South and…

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".



The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an open access repository "CDC Stacks" at http://stacks.cdc.gov using the Fedora repository platform hosted in the cloud.



Issues…

We're hosting 2 speakers and the SPARC webinar this week.



The two formal speakers, Mike Furlough and Nick Disabato, will be broadcast on  Mediasite Live [live.libraries.psu.edu (no login required)]

Anyone at a computer can join the Monday afternoon Webcast using the information at the SPARC website (URL below.) Anyone at a computer can join the…

Greetings, all

I am a novice when it comes to open access, so I look forward to learning a lot this week. The question I would like to answer is ... how do I explain 'open access' options to colleagues working in conservation? These friends are academics, journalists and goverment officials. That said, it's been difficult to get these fans of email attachments onto the social web. That said, I believe that sharing and remixing are the future so we might as well get good at…

Tremor and other Hyperkinetic Movements (TOHM) an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal, centers on tremor and hyperkinetic movement disorders, giving home to clinical observations and research in this area. The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University…

Starting with the Open Access Week 2012, the Romanian information specialists, researchers, funding agencies and interested parties are the beneficiaries of a new portal dedicated to Open Access advocacy: www.acces-deschis.ro (beta version).



This is…

There are lots of great events being posted here-- please see what is going on your area.

Today also marks the World Bank and SPARC kickoff event. This live-streamed event is a great place to start if you are having problems coming up with things to do. This event will be recorded, and features a Q&A portal and live blog for…

for the week

https://www.facebook.com/OtaruUniversityofCommerceLibrary

As a part of the project of making the service Directory of Open Access Journals available on other languages than English the site has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

The translation has been carried out thanks to a cooperation between Lund University Libaries, Redalyc and the University of Porto.…