EUA urges universities to develop clear strategies to advance open access

2008-04-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
[ The following text is in the "WINDOWS-1252" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] >From the European University Association Newsletter about the EUA Status: O Spring Conference at the Universit

Re: Acces a des contenus de savoir

2008-04-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, N. Miradon wrote: http://www.accedit.com > I am not clear whether this is a Good, or a Bad, Thing. A Bad Thing for the authors of peer-reviewed research. (It may be perfectly fine for authors of other kinds of work, for which they seek royalty revenue.) Accedit is a pay-per-

Re: Fwd: Bentham Science Publishers (fwd)

2008-04-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:31:07 -0500 From: [deleted] Subject: Re: Fwd: Bentham Science Publishers I don't know if this is relevant but it sounds like it might be. This email is several weeks old: > >From Scope Knowledge today: > > Wiley-Bl

RE: Acces a des contenus de savoir

2008-04-05 Thread Jeffery, KG (Keith)
N Miradon - An interesting site. Somewhat francophilein content as well as interface!! However, I checked for the top ICT experts in my field in France and none of them is represented. My own view is such 'secondary' or 'overlay' sites will be useful but only when Stevan's target of 95% fill

Open Repositories 2008 Video and Links

2008-04-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
Here is the link to a video sampler of OR-08 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/podcasts/video.php?id=125 And here is the link to the EurOpenScholar session, at which there were two brilliant, timely (and, I predict, historic landmark) presentations. One was by (1) Professor Bernard Rentier, Founder and

Bentham Science Publishers*

2008-04-05 Thread Richard Poynder
Dear All, I would be grateful if anyone could help me. I am interested in an Open Access publisher called Bentham Science Publishers (http://www.bentham.org/). I have been contacted by a number of researchers who say that the company is bombarding them with invitations to contribute papers to its

Acces a des contenus de savoir

2008-04-05 Thread N . Miradon
>From yesterday's Le Monde:- Status: O Olivier Amiel a ... créé ... un site, www.accedit.com, qui donne accès à des contenus de savoir (plusieurs milliers d'articles, mémoires, thèses) provenant de centres de recherches réputés ou d'universités. ... Est aussi proposé aux chercheurs ou aux laborato