[GOAL] “Snippet view” in Google Books is not open access

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[GOAL] Doxology: Open access “magnifying lens” on worship scholarship

eans of perceiving and fulfilling the mission for which the Church was formed” (from the website). I spoke with former editor, Professor Byron Anderson (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary), about the history of Doxology. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic

[GOAL] Hat Tip: Clay Shirky: Open access gives preference to our academic mission not our current practices

t have you, but simply as a way of living up to our own stated goals. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess at gmail.com | @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@

[GOAL] Hat Tip: “The Future of Publishing” (But I viewed it from the perspective of open access)

Hat Tip: "The Future of Publishing" (But I viewed it from the perspective of open access)http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/hat-tip-the-future-of-publishing-but-i-viewed-it-from-the-perspective-of-open-access/ I'm surprised I hadn't seen this earlier. I want to thank a librarian colleague

[GOAL] Adoption of open access in Theological Studies will accelerate with a new generation of scholars--like Jack

well in his desire to find a placement for continuing his studies. The other day Jack shared with me a draft of the Statement of Intent he is preparing to accompany his applications. As I was reading, I encountered this excerpt (included with permission)… Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open

[GOAL] The open access journal as a disruptive innovation

aries News (December 2011) entitled “Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? The economics of open access.” … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OA

[GOAL] JSTOR announces free limited reading access to its journal archive

r & Read as a form of open access, though I grant it is a step toward the opening of access. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com> Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OAopenacce

[GOAL] If the sciences can do it… PLOHSS: A PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences

or his excellent "Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide." The tweet linked to a post on his blog soliciting participants to help build a Public Library of Science model for the Humanities and Social Sciences. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access <http://oaopenaccess

[GOAL] Re: If the sciences can do it? PLOHSS: A PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences

ght conclude that they separate the humanities and social sciences into subset journals. At the very least, my take was that by invoking PLOS he is saying HSS should be able to have its own online "public library" of open access article literature. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access &

[GOAL] Tribute to Aaron Swartz: Watch his "How we stopped SOPA" keynote at F2C2012

rtz. Aaron was a prodigious young computer programmer and an activist dedicated to the fight for free and open access to information and knowledge on the Internet. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com> Advocate for open access academic publishing in

[GOAL] Article processing charges reduced to $99 on SAGE Open humanities and social sciences “mega journal”

o $99. (Here is a link to the SAGE press release.) This charge is reduced dramatically from the standard fee of $695, and down significantly from the "introductory rate" of $395 that was previously in force. I confirmed the price change on the Manuscript Submission page of the journal

[GOAL] Croatian Open Access Declaration, the "Hamster" portal, and open access theology journals

I was researching for this piece. Thanks too, goes to Google Translate, which helped me immensely with the Croatian language. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com> Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess at g

[GOAL] Now we know first-hand: Editorial board of librarians resign over journal publisher’s restrictive licensing

icipate in Mathew’s project due to pointed reservations regarding T&F’s author policies. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @ gmail . com | @OAopenaccess __

[GOAL] Public Knowledge Project releases Open Monograph Press version 1.0

redibly successful Open Journal Systems (OJS)<http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs> has done for online journals. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @ gma

[GOAL] Conversation with two religious studies scholars on committee at Open Library of Humanities

rticular, developing a multi-disciplinary "mega-journal" like PLOS ONE<http://www.plosone.org/>--even work in the Humanities? ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.o

[GOAL] Lacking any sense of proportion: Michael Eisen pushes back on The New York Times’ “dark side of open access” article

f open access run amuck, the only safe harbor is the “traditional business model…built on subscription revenues.” continues… Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/ oa.openaccess at gmail d

[GOAL] Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web! You made open access possible

ld kid to help me troubleshoot some initial configuration problems, I was on! (Incidentally, that kid went to work for Apple Computer at the age of 17.) … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/ Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and th

[GOAL] Re: Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web! You made open access possible

Of course you are correct Stevan. I note that Berners-Lee created the code in 1989 in my post. But I probably should have titled this the 20th birthday of the OPEN or PUBLIC WWW. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic

[GOAL] Open Library of Humanities is recruiting discipline editors, including Theology & Religious Studies

venue. It strikes me as an unique opportunity for our discipline, both to disseminate research widely, and to become active partners in a larger multidisciplinary conversation. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/ Advocate for open access academic pub

[GOAL] Standing at a point of transition: Johannes Trithemius, In Praise of Scribes

way, to the last part of this excerpt in Salo’s article ... Your comments are welcome. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess at gmail dot com___

[GOAL] Library Publishing Toolkit e-book available as free download!

vement. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.or

[GOAL] EBSCO Serials Price Projections for 2014 recognizes rising impact of open access; highlights perils of continued publisher consolidation

of the pay-for-access model. … Your comments are welcome. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess

[GOAL] “Truthiness” isn’t quite truth, and “sciencey” isn’t quite science, even if published in Science: Mike Taylor’s “Anti-tutorial: how to design and execute a really bad study”

bad study." The blog-o and Twitter-spheres have over the last four days offered extensive reporting and analysis of the article that appeared in the October 4, 2013 issue of Science. If you are one of a handful of persons who by now has not heard about this story the gist is this: … Gary F. Dau

[GOAL] Best excerpts from Poynder’s “The State of Open Access” interviews, Parts 1 & 2

ous studies. Following each excerpted interview I offer my take-away from this perspective. For manageability, I divided this post into two parts. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theolog

[GOAL] “When Obsession With Ownership Outlaws Sharing, It Is The Way of Sodom”: Harold Feld on intellectual property, Jewish ethics, and Aaron Swartz

t-f2c2012/>.) ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@epri

[GOAL] Society of Biblical Literature releases (restrictive) Green Open Access Policy

Research and Publications Committee, [the SBL] has developed a Green Open Access Policy for authors who contribute to the SBL publishing program.” The full (two page) policy document is available here (PDF). Continues... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic

[GOAL] Springer launches first open access journal in Religion: International Journal of Dharma Studies

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[GOAL] Journal of Buddhist Ethics celebrates twenty years open access

ogy as a medium for scholarly communication. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/> oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess

[GOAL] I dropped the “NC” from my Creative Commons License

ut." But as an open access advocate I was definitely concerned that a commercial interest not be able to profit from work that I was giving away for free. I reasoned the added friction of the “NC" would serve as a deterrent. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for op

[GOAL] Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to Theological and Religious Studies journals, I’d have to say yes

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[GOAL] Re: Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to Theological and Religious Studies journals, Id have to say yes

as a business. Rather, it is an expression of an intellectual mission—a medium of communication for the dissemination of knowledge. Have a great weekend! Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpres

[GOAL] “The public domain is … a disgrace to the forces of evil”

opyright--is not lost on the viewer. (Continues. . .) Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@

[GOAL] New year, new Omega Alpha | Open Access

Peter introduces the expanded coverage we are planning for Omega Alpha | Open Access. I also spruced-up the look at bit. "Up to now, the blog has been closely focused on Open Access (capital O, capital A) as it relates to scholarly journals and books for religious studies and theology (RS&T

[GOAL] Open Library of Humanities Update, Part 2: More about disciplinary curation; a first Religious Studies content initiative; and partnering with libraries for sustainable funding

n Library of Humanities Update, Part 1: Now accepting submissions; Religious Studies and Theology editors in place <http://wp.me/p20y83-YF <http://wp.me/p20y83-YF>> Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Covering the evolving open scholarship movement in rel

[GOAL] Religious studies in the web archive: a new opportunity?

ues…) Peter J. Webster Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/>> Covering the evolving open scholarship movement in religion and theology oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess

[GOAL] Open access as a matter of academic ethics: The right thing to do

lperin, in a recent article entitled “The academic ethics of open access to research and scholarship” (in Ethics and Education 6(3), October 2011, pp. 217-223), …   Your comments are welcome and appreciated. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess

[GOAL] "Would [open access] be prestigious just because we say it is? I say, why not?"

e April 17, 2012 memorandum sent by the Harvard Library Faculty Advisory Council (covered by me here), which among other things, encouraged faculty to submit their research articles to open access journals in order to “move prestige to open access.” ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open A

[GOAL] Google's role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access?

conversation surely needs to happen regarding Google’s role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access. Is anyone aware of the status of such a conversation? Thanks. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and

[GOAL] Re: Google's role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access?

interested in hearing what anyone has to say. Thanks! Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:35:25 + > From: Les A Carr > Subject: [GOAL] Re: Google's role in sustaining the public good to > researchparallel to devel

[GOAL] Re: Google's role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access?

Search, etc.) to assure continued indexing to open access literature? Good weekend to all! Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access On Jul 14, 2012, at 7:00 AM, goal-requ...@eprints.org wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:29:37 + > From: Les A Carr > Subject: [GOAL

[GOAL] Hat Tip: “Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide”

consensus of leaders in a field” The guide covers, in more or less checklist fashion, the budgetary, technical and social groundwork essential to get an open access journal off on the right foot. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in

[GOAL] Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access

nts are welcome. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://ma

[GOAL] Re: Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access

/lend expertise to these journals as they grow and require more administrative and technical support. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openacc...@gmail.com | @OAopenaccess > Date: T

[GOAL] Open Access Interview: New Testament Scholar Larry Hurtado

resulted from an email interchange and a face-to-face conversation online via Skype. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess | Academia.edu

[GOAL] First use of the phrase "open access"?

uture application. The words "access," "open, "and "free" are used repeatedly in the Proceedings, but I was unable to find any the phrase "open access" was used elsewhere. I suppose the next question would be: At what point did this informal and (perhaps) coin

[GOAL] Re: First use of the phrase "open access"?

x27;re all now talking about "open access". Thanks. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess@ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:25 AM, goal-requ.

[GOAL] Hat Tip: David Weinberger interviews open access advocate Peter Suber

n this scholarly communications debate: … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@

[GOAL] Hat Tip: "How to Succeed in Publishing Without Really Trying"

d Screwtape, who is mentoring his inexperienced nephew Wormwood in the finer points of how to secure the soul of an unsuspecting British chap—"the Patient"—into hell. In Geffert's retelling, Uncle Screwtape is mentoring Wormwood as an aspiring academic publishi

[GOAL] Open access Journal of Southern Religion adopts Creative Commons Attribution license

which may not be free, is assumed.) … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing

[GOAL] Blog Update: What is the better online journal format: periodical issues or open annual volumes?

volume format, with no fixed published quantity and new content continually added throughout the year as it becomes available (and passes the review process). … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenacces

[GOAL] First library published open access issue of New Theology Review launched today!

editor. Accompanying the announcement was the news that this long-running print and subscription-based journal (published since 1988) would be converted to online only and going open access. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theolog

[GOAL] A few Religious Studies articles showing up in SAGE Open open access “mega journal”; reviewers being solicited

this was all about. As always, your comments (posted to the post) are welcome. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @ gmail.com___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mail

[GOAL] Open access as a matter of academic ethics: The right thing to do

cent article entitled ?The academic ethics of open access to research and scholarship? (in Ethics and Education 6(3), October 2011, pp. 217-223), ? Your comments are welcome and appreciated. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess

[GOAL] "Would [open access] be prestigious just because we say it is? I say, why not?"

l 17, 2012 memorandum sent by the Harvard Library Faculty Advisory Council (covered by me here), which among other things, encouraged faculty to submit their research articles to open access journals in order to “move prestige to open access.” ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open A

[GOAL] From my old school files: “Scholarly communication, electronic content and ‘open access’”

olarly communication, electronic content and ‘open access.’” For archival purposes, as well as a reminder to myself of how I started down this path of interest in open access, I thought I would transcribe the proposal here... Your comments are welcome. Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha Open Access gf

[GOAL] From my old school files, Part 2: Excerpts from that research paper on the development of the scholarly journal

paper is entitled The Scholarly Journal: Long Tradition Behind the Coming Change. … Thanks for your comments! Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access oa.openaccess @ gmail.com ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] New Theology Review goes open access with the library as publisher

but also to hear more about her library assuming the role of journal publisher. McMahon is co-editor (appointed just March 8 of this year) of New Theology Review, and as library director she will also be its publisher… Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access oa.openaccess