The EU-funded PASTEUR4OA project aims to increase the understanding and
awareness of Open Access (OA) amongst institutional, national and research
funder policymakers. PASTEUR4OA also aims to help develop and/or reinforce
OA strategies and policies at national, university and research funder
to the full-text in
the local IR (see
https://www.openaire.eu/for-research-admin/funders-functionalities).
OpenAIRE is therefore both a provider of Open Access and a management tool
for the funder, the European Commission.
Alma Swan
SPARC Europe
On 31/05/2014 01:27, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com
A message from Alma Swan (a.s...@talk21.com) and Paul Ayris
(p.ay...@ucl.ac.uk):
Friends,
It is with great sadness that we have to tell you of the death last week of
Fred Friend.
Fred was one of the staunchest supporters of Open Access and worked to
further its aims for almost two decades
...@mail.las.ac.cn]
Sent: 28 April 2014 16:12
To: 'Alma Swan (a.s...@talk21.com)'; Ayris, Paul
Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: Re: [GOAL] Fred Friend
Dear Alma and Paul,
This is really sad news!
Fred is one of those coming to China early on to help us in China
2013.
Alma Swan
SPARC Europe
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Yes, here are some:
http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=553It
emid=378
Wolters Kluwer bought Medknow a couple of years ago but has (so far)
retained its subscription-plus-immediate-free-access model:
http://www.medknow.com/journals.asp
Alma Swan
On 19/04/2013 06
Alma, could you provide the source of the issues you highlight? The URL you
gave is just to the format of how to submit, but does not include the actual
remit of the inquiry.
I can now, but there was nothing available when I posted the news
approximately 24 hours ago. This press release was
The UK's House of Lords (upper chamber of Parliament) Science Technology
Committee is conducting an enquiry into Open Access. Written submissions are
welcome. Individuals and organisations are invited to give their views on
the actions taken by Government and RCUK following publication of the
was founded by Dr. Alma Swan (convener of EOS, co-founder and co-owner
of Key Perspectives Ltd. and Director SPARC Europe ) and Dr. Caroline Sutton
(co-founder Co-Action Publishing and President of OASPA ).
Both parties are confident that this transition will ensure that the
scholarly community
infrastructure to support
open access.
For more information, contact:
Caroline Sutton (caroline.sut...@co-action.net)
Alma Swan (a.s...@talk21.com)
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. And there is also an inclination in some quarters to call Green OA
delayed OA¹, even though 60+% of journals allow immediate OA by
self-archiving. We should also ensure that Green OA is not equated with
embargoes.
Alma Swan
On 3 Dec 2012, at 18:51, Richard Poynder wrote:
Stuart Shieber
and typos.
On 12 Dec 2012, at 07:28, Alma Swan a.s...@talk21.com wrote:
Re: [GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber David Prosser wrote:
APCs make up just one business model that can be used to support Gold OA.
Gold is OA through journals - it makes no assumption about how the costs
The BBC picked up the Guardian?s article of Monday
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost-boycott-s
cientific-journals) and covered the topic in two interviews yesterday on
main news shows.
1. The Wellcome Trust's Mark Walport was interviewed about Open Access on
the
The BBC picked up the Guardianâs article of
Monday(http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost-boycott-scie
ntific-journals) and covered the topic in two interviews yesterday on main news
shows.
1. The Wellcome Trust's Mark Walport was interviewed about Open Access on
? as defined by the Creative Commons CC-BY licence.
The Research Councils acknowledge that some publications may need to amend
their copyright conditions if they are to meet this definition of Open
Access. ?
Alma Swan
On 13/03/2012 11:10, Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk wrote:
On Tue
attribution â
as
defined by the Creative Commons CC-BY licence.
The Research Councils acknowledge that some publications may need to amend their
copyright conditions if they are to meet this definition of Open Access. â
Alma Swan
On 13/03/2012 11:10, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote
Forwarding from Simon Benjamin
The Senior Fellow in Quantum Materials,
Dept Materials, Oxford.
www.qunat.org
-
On leap-Wednesday the 29th Feb, a rare chance to meet an eminent panel of
speakers and debate:
The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and the Future
From Ina Smith:
First Announcement
Berlin 10 Open Access Conference to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa
Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Max Planck Society and the
Academy of Science for South Africa, has the pleasure of announcing that the
prestigious Berlin 10
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Â
The newly-developed REF2014 plugin for the widely-used EPrints repository
software is entering its live testing phase. Five universities that
currently have their repositories hosted by EPrints Services will be
participating in the testing process. The goal
, Victoria University, Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown from Key Perspectives
Limited for Research and Innovation and Denmark's Electronic Research Library.
 The study is based on 98 responses of a quantitative questionnaire and 23
qualitative interviews
to be published in more than one journal, this seems a very
satisfactory solution for the majority of cases.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
as well as the place
to find the up-to-date version of the graph for advocacy work.
Finally, the growth of policies during open Access Week 2010 was monitored
and is recorded here: http://bit.ly/anUWms and here: http://bit.ly/a4dynw.
Alma Swan
OASIS (www.openoasis.org)
EOS (www.openscholarship.org)
Key
are there, it may not be necessary! Les had thought you
had declined. You could do ROARMAP! Especially with your new OAW results...
Sinophilic (but not yet Senile) Stick
On 2010-10-22, at 8:33 AM, Alma Swan wrote:
They just said they wanted me there rather than by Skype. Stevan, I will
check
Teesside University in the UK has launched its institutional repository and
announced a mandatory policy on depositing the University's research
outputs.
The repository, TeesRep, was officially opened by the Vice Chancellor,
Professor Graham Henderson, who welcomed the new development, saying:
(Forwarding from Caroline Boyd, University of Salford, dated Friday 16
October 2009):
The University has announced its intention to implement plans that will make
free, easily accessible research knowledge available to a world wide
audience via the University of Salford Institutional Repository
ROARMAP Full list of institutions
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
[Forwarding from Leif Hansen, Senior Advisor, Copenhagen Business School]
Greater access to scholarly publications from CBS
The CBS Open Access Policy - 2009.
Background. Universities find themselves in a
retrospectively at what had happened in the first 15 years of
self-archiving. What speculators wish to make of that evidence is up to
them.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
The next training course offered by EPrints will take place at the
University of Southampton on 1-2 September 2009. As well as the
standard EPrints two-day course, from which delegates emerge not only
equipped to set up and run a repository for their institution but
also with one on their laptop,
-energy physics] ~J..I would say it is likely we
maintained subscriptions to Physical Review D that we may otherwise have
lost if we hadn't been so pro-arXiv ~J.²
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
,
especially when that someone takes great care not to misrepresent people who
have agreed to give evidence.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
undertake, or things you hear
about that might usefully be brought to the attention of this community, and
I will add them to the Briefing Materials.
Thank you, all.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
that
demonstrate the benefit to individual authors.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
-Original Message-
From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
[mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On
Behalf Of Alma Swan
Sent: 25 June 2009 07:04
To: american
not depositing as agreed (and as they were being paid to do).
I daresay they're shaping up by now.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
On 24/06/2009 11:01, Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk wrote:
That's what they told Alma. It is not, however, what they are doing so
the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for
local use.
For details about the site, please visit: http://www.openoasis.org
A brief introduction to OASIS is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kbZ-BJpros
Contact: Leslie Chan c...@utsc.utoronto.ca or Alma Swan
a.s
/).
Being able to see the details of existing policies helps other
institutions that are developing their own and means that new
policies are included in summary data like this chart
(http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090603/full/news.2009.538/box/1.html
) at the soonest possible moment.
Alma Swan
Key
be read that way. UCL's mandate is a big, big prize and
congratulations to all involved.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
On 04/06/2009 12:25, Alma Swan a.s...@talk21.com wrote:
UCL's Open Access mandate was adopted in October 2008,
but only announced in June 2009. It would
for the online discussions and workshop, and to
the action plans themselves.
We look forward to getting your views.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
to scientific progress this week.
In this digital age, scientists should be able to see their peers' results
as soon as they are ready for publication, in order to build upon them at
once. Artificial delay built into the system is an anachronism.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
surveys
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11006/ that were
conducted several years ago by Alma Swan and Sheridan
Brown, in which researchers did indeed voice their
opinion, and their opinion was that they would not
deposit until and unless it was mandated
Forwarding from the JISC-ANNOUNCE mailing list:
Press Release
January 27th, 2009: Sharing research information via a more open access
publishing model would bring millions of pounds worth of savings to the
higher education sector as well as benefiting UK plc. This is one of the key
findings from
providing OA to their published (and some unpublished)
research findings, notably Novartis, which has made its diabetes research
results OA for some time now and is currently building an OA repository to
house the publishable output of more of its research programmes.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro
(such as new measures of ROI).
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
--- On Wed, 8/10/08, Subbiah Arunachalam subbia...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Subbiah Arunachalam subbia...@yahoo.com
Subject: New ways of measuring research
To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Date
I agree. Stevan should remain, doing his own inimitable thing, which has been
invaluable for OA. He keeps things focused and provides an input that is
uniquely useful. Count me in on the 'aye' side, please.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
--- On Tue, 7/10/08, Tony Hey tony
you.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
play and I register my
full support for the moderator for making a judgment not to post a message
that was way past the point of decency and respectful argument and which
appears (to my non-legal eye) to have strayed into libellous territory.
Posting such a message would have been a bad decision.
Alma
to come out in print, or
trekking off to another university's library, if your own library
didn't subscribe to the journal. Nowadays, locating it online from an
`in press' citation is a doddle.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
of text-mining (pers comm, 2006),
PDF is evil.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
and store them for later action.
I will also put out a further call for responses so that we have a bigger
database for analysis.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
there, but there's no harm in
putting a bit of effort into striving for the best possible outcome, rather
than relaxing and leaving things to muddle along.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
on publishers for one thing with dependence on
publishers for another. Or, at least, not for something that means a
sub-optimal outcome for science. Embargoes are such. The research community
itself should recognise the responsibilities (and opportunities) it has and
shoulder them properly.
Alma Swan
Key
as an
example of good practice (which it is) while arguing the case for
centralised deposit (which RePEc doesn't have). Or have I got the wrong end
of the stick there?
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
P.S. The French, as always, will do things their own way.
, he needs to be *required* to do so. Just as it
took a law to get the majority to use seatbelts, even though we all
acknowledged what a good idea they were.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
and assessment, databases in
biomedicine, Nature Precedings and repositories as places for early
dissemination of findings, society publishing and writing a scientific
paper.
The full programme and registration details are at:
http://www.ub.uio.no/umh/ecspbiomed/
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
of the programme, speakers and registration can be found at:
http://www.ub.uio.no/umh/ecspbiomed/
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro
was 79,000
USD (54,000 euros).
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
- but I've rounded up to the nearest dollar/euro/pound for
simplicity. The extra cents and pennies will be sent to Creative Commons along
with my donation for 2008.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd,
Truro, UK
-of-project
report, and employers levy an implicit requirement for researchers to
publish their results, they can also legitimately require them to spend a
few minutes depositing articles in an open access archive. And expect
little in the way of dissent, too.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
self-archive
reluctantly. The 'least willing' is China, where 58% would self-archive
willingly and 32% would do so reluctantly.
The report is now written and out with reviewers. It will be published by
JISC shortly.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
researchers within those institutions - funded or not, society
members or not, professionally-affiliated or not.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
Cliff Morgan wrote:
Alma Swan may claim that the survey is rigorous and meaningful, but its
objectivity is rather undermined by the following introductory sentence:
Studies show that open access increases the impact of - and number of
citations to - work made accessible in this way.
Even
At a meeting last week it was stated that there is no evidence that
researchers WANT open access. I'm not sure anyone has actually asked them
this, formally, so I am about to carry out an exercise to gather data on the
topic. I would like to hear from librarians, open archive administrators and
model was devised
accordingly and would be equally appropriate anywhere else in the world.
Alma Swan
_
Alma P Swan, BSc, PhD, MBA
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1392 879702
David Goodman wrote:
I think it would be very useful to everyone if you could post the cost
figures you refer to here, giving the detail upon which it is based so
that other places could adapt it to their size and needs.
(I) First, determine the start-up cost of creating an institutional
and scholars themselves of the state of play
and how open access is progressing.
Naturally, all responses will be treated as confidential and you may opt to
remain anonymous if you wish.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation. We do value your input and
advice.
Yours sincerely,
Alma Swan
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