Launch of OASIS

2009-06-12 Thread Alma Swan
The Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) is being launched at the 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB2009), taking place in Milan, Italy from June 10-12. OASIS aims to provide an authoritative sourcebook on Open Access covering the concept, principles, adv

SHERPA/RoMEO API Upgrade and Future Development

2009-06-12 Thread Peter Millington
* Announcement (cross-posted) *   SHERPA has just released Version 2.4 of the RoMEO Application Programmers' Interface (API). The new version uses a totally new algorithm and is faster than earlier 1.x versions. It also supplies data for the fields that were missing in earlier versions - paid open

Re: Plain text request? [off topic]

2009-06-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Kiley ,Robert wrote: > Stevan Is there anyway this listserv can be set up to just accept plain text? > I subscribe to the daily digest -- and as you can see below -- this is almost > impossible to read with all the markup. > > Just a thought. > > Robert Kiley My a

The Argument Against (Premature) Gold OA Support

2009-06-12 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. ] ** Cross-Posted ** I have written a response to http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/06/11/t