OAPEN is a project in Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs. The consortium of University-based academic publishers who make up OAPEN believe that the time is ripe to bring the successes of scientific Open Access publishing to the humanities and social sciences.
Berlin Academic – so heißt der neue Wissenschaftsverlag, dessen Gründung der Berlin Verlag heute bekannt gibt.
Auf einer neu errichteten Online-Plattform veröffentlicht Berlin Academic sein Programm nach Open-Access-Prinzipien und unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen. Gleichzeitig werden sämtliche Titel über Print on Demand sowie in verschiedenen E-Book-Formaten vertrieben.
The Alliance for Permanent Access aim is to foster the development of an ecosystem of trusted digital repositories to enable Europe to fully exploit the potential of European scientific collaboration. The accessibility (permanent), quality assurance and preservation of key data collections are and will be one of the major driving forces for the advancement of science but also for applications thereof.
"[T]he key point is that we need to take back our publications from the market-based economy, and to reorient scholarly communication within the gift economy that best enables our work to thrive."
Sie predigen anderen Wasser und trinken Wein. Vorne hui, hinten pfui. Die deutschen Bibliotheken spielen sich auf der Bühne als Anwälte des frei zugänglichen wissenschaftlichen Wissens im Interesse ihrer Benutzer auf, aber hinter den Kulissen agieren sie gegen Open Access (OA), wenn ihre eigenen Interessen tangiert sind, oder sie ignorieren die Bedürfnisse ihrer Kunden.
Rezension zu: Lambert Heller (20. September 2009): Green Road 2.0 – eine leise Revolution von Mendeley und Researchgate?. In: Biblionik. Zur Revolutionierung von Bibliothek und Wissensorganisation durch das Internet
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a collaborative effort of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that helps build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material. An archive of contributed material is available on the Internet Archive website and through Yahoo! and other search engines and sites.
Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.
The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' in open knowledge. The term knowledge is used broadly and it includes all forms of data, content such as music, films or books as well any other type of information.
The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students.
A "legacy system" in the world of computing provides a useful analogy for understanding the precarious state of contemporary academic publishing. This comparison might also keep us from stepping backward in the very act of stepping forward in promoting Open Access publishing and Institutional Repositories. I will argue that, vital as it is, the Open Access movement should really be seen in its current manifestation as academic "middleware" servicing the "legacy system" of old-school scholarship.
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a leader in this field nationally and internationally.
Free Culture "is first and foremost a technology-facilitated extension of our normal modes of behaviour, of our normal desires, and this is why it is inevitable, profound and unstoppable."
Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing collective in critical and cultural theory.
Open Humanities Press journals are fully peer reviewed, scholarly publications that have been chosen by OHP's editorial advisory board for their outstanding contribution to contemporary theory. OHP's journals are independent, published under open access licences and free of charge to readers and authors alike.
H. Neuroth. (January 2009)Dr. Heike Neuroth, Leiterin der Abteilung Forschung und Entwicklung der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen; eHumanities Consultant, Max Planck Digital Library, Berlin.