Randy Reichardt in one of stlq blog entries ‘George Porter and Caltech Libraries: Growth of the CODA Repositories’ pointed out how Caltech’s Online Digital Archives (CODA) is growing very rapidly.
http://oacaltech.blogspot.com/ is a running list of research papers, editorial appointments, and other news about open access scholarship by Caltech researchers.
Posted by: Jay Bhatt, Drexel University
Excerpt: “Scientists on the track to discovery got good news this month when a powerful computing tool received critical government funding. A five-year, $30 million award to the Open Science Grid Consortium, announced by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, will operate and expand the Open Science Grid, […]
Knowledgespeak reported recently that The Journal of Physics: Conference Series, an open access (OA) journal published by the UK based non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), has announced that the proceedings of SciDAC 2006 is now available online in volume 46 of the journal. As an open-access journal, every volume of Journal of Physics: […]
SNM announced today that its flagship Journal of Nuclear Medicine and the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology have moved to an open access publishing model, providing free, full-text online articles 12 months after publication.
Read the Full article at: Free Access to Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Posted by Jay Bhatt, Drexel University
The “Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research” (DRIVER) project responds to the vision that any form of scientific-content resource, including scientific/technical reports, research articles, experimental or observational data, rich media and other digital objects should be freely accessible through simple Internet-based infrastructures.
Read the Full Article at: DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories
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D-Lib Magazine, March 2006, 12(3), carried out section on several digital libraries. These include: The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program, Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories, and PerX: Pilot Engineering Repository Xsearch. Some other articles in this section include: ‘Third archiving deal for Oxford Journals guarantees long term […]
The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce the release of FREE TO READ. As noted in our earlier announcement, FREE TO READ allows individuals or institutions to pay a modest fee ($975/PR article and $1300/PRL) to provide access, through our sites, to the full text versions of selected articles published in APS journals […]
As announced in the Chemical & Engineering News, September 4, 2006, “In October, American Chemical Society journal authors will have the option of paying to immediately provide free online access to their articles on the society’s website. Authors will also be able to post electronic copies of their sponsored articles on personal websites and institutional […]
An Electronic Thesis on EPrint Repositories by Timothy Lewy from the University of Southampton.
Abstract:
Current Institutional Repository packages do a poor job of maintaining the article’s metadata in a consistent fashion. Documents and other entities are unreliably identified and there exists no mechanism for correlating related data between multiple repositories. A consistent reference […]
