[GOAL] Re: Bold predictions for 2012

2011-12-20 Thread Arthur Sale
I am proud to be able to count Stevan as one of my friends, but we don’t always agree, as is normal for most people.   I really don’t understand how Stevan manages to call the Titanium Road “a technologically supercharged version of the Green Road”, but Stevan can explain that

[GOAL] Re: Taylor Francis Opens Access with new OA Program!

2011-12-20 Thread McMillan, Jennifer
Dear Michael and Heather, We have not yet posted the Terms Conditions relating specifically to Taylor Francis Open and Open Select online. These will be available in early January. I am currently out of the office for the Christmas break, so if you have further queries about these new

[GOAL] Interview with OMICS Publishing Group's Srinu Babu Gedela

2011-12-20 Thread Richard Poynder
In an article published in The Charleston Review in July 2010, Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, described OMICS Publishing Group as a predatory Open Access publisher. “Having a large number of titles, as does the OMICS Publishing Group, is typical of predatory

[GOAL] December 2011 Issue - Sciecom Info [HTML]

2011-12-20 Thread Ingegerd Rabow
[Apologies for cross-posting]   Welcome to the December 2011 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication. News: Oslo University, Norway, has adopted an OA-policy. All personnel employed after 1 January 2012 shall deposit a post-print version of scientific articles

[GOAL] Titanium Killer Apps and OA

2011-12-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Arthur Sale a...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I really don’t understand how Stevan manages to call the Titanium Road “a technologically supercharged version of the Green Road”, but Stevan can explain that statement if he wishes.   The Gold Road

[GOAL] Re: Titanium Killer Apps and OA

2011-12-20 Thread Arif Jinha
3 Cheers for the Titanium Road.   My publishing company will mandate from the journal side the authors to make Green OA deposits for greater availabiility,  exposure to the journal name, for preservation (copies, copies, copies).  Open access materials such as online journals and scholarly