Mutual communication from Lund University Libraries and IS4OA to the public
Press release
New agreement concluded regarding management of the Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ)
17 December 2012: Lund University Libraries and Infrastructure Services for
Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA - a
ANNOUNCMENT
17 December 2012: Infrastructure Services For Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA) is
pleased to announce the appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as Managing Director
of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). During his earlier work as
Director of Libraries at Lund University, from 2001 to
*General cost analysis for scholarly communication in Germany: results of
the 'Houghton Report' for
Germanyhttp://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27530
* by John W. Houghton, Berndt Dugall, Steffen Bernius, Julia Krönung,
Wolfgang König
*Some comments on the
The “Statement on position in relation to open access” issued by the Editors of
twenty-one important history journals is a very significant development and has
not received the discussion it deserves (see
http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2012-12-10/statement-position-relation-open-access
). In
The Centre for Research Communications is pleased to announce the release of an
upgrade to its SHERPA/JULIET service, the go-to database of research funders'
open access policies - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
SHERPA/JULIET now has grown to cover 110 funders. Chart of Growth of the
This statement is indeed worthy of further consideration. One element that I
would like to highlight is the statement that open access article will be
published with the CC-BY-NC-ND license only. While the owners of the journals
may have a vested interest in retaining commercial rights, authors
