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Thursday, 25 October 2012

UPDATE 24 October 2012



This week is Open Access week at UJ and is also therefore the theme of this week's blog.


Open Access Week is a global event taking place between October 22 and 28.  The event is now in its 6th year and strives to promote open access as a new norm in scholarship and research.  This year’s theme is “Set the default to Open Access”. In previous blogs the issue of open access was already addressed (see tags on open access)

IN TODAY'S POST INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING WILL BE COMMUNICATED:

· Open Access Week activities at UJ


· More on Open Access in general
o    Blogs
o    Conferences
o    News
· Open Access in a legal context
o    Articles
o    Journals
· Open Access articles on databases at UJ
o    Academic OneFIle
o    EbscoHost MultiDisciplinary Database
o    ScienceDirect


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Most South African Universities take part in the celebration of Open Access week through a variety of activities.  

  • Open Access Week activities at UJ 


Open Access UJ Team



UJ Institutional Repository Services
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 More on Open Access in general

o    Blogs

o    Conferences

o    News

(As provided on BUALENNA Listserv)

• Celebrate Open Access Week (22-28 October 2012)
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
• Open Access (Peter Suber)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book)
• California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/california-universities-to-produce-50-open-source-textbooks/
• Open Access Africa 2012
http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-access-africa-2012
• Stevan Harnad: How & why the RCUK Open Access Policy needs to be revised
http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/stevan-harnad-how-why-the-rcuk-open-access-policy-needs-to-be
• Good practices for University Open Access Policies
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies
• The LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access
http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf
• Why Publish in Humanities Directory?
http://www.humanitiesdirectory.com/index.php/humanitiesdirectory/pages/view/authors_why
• International Relations Program to release open-access research
http://www.tuftsdaily.com/international-relations-program-to-release-open-access-research-1.2779187
• Images in the Public Domain
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
• Research Intelligence : Unbound Possibilities
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=421432
• “Snippet view” in Google Books is not open access
http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/snippet-view-in-google-books-is-not-open-access/
• Open Access Week Preview 2012
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Open-Access-Week-Preview-85557.asp
• Open Access Videos and other Resources to help you celebrate Open Access Week (21-28 October 2012).
http://www.scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/node/47
• European Commission Open Access Policy Officer to speak at R2RC European Open Access Week Webcast
http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/european-commission-open-access-policy-officer-to-.shtml
• Open Access and the “Fair Dealing” Button
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/
• Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers
Is there a Gini co-efficient on Open Access and how Beautiful is That?
http://infokelele.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/is-there-a-gini-co-efficient-on-open-access-and-how-beautiful-is-that/
• List of Open Licensed Cartoons
http://education-copyright.org/list-of-open-licensed-cartoons/
• Royalty-Free Cartoons
http://www.sangrea.net/free-cartoons/
• Free Cartoons for Embedding in Websites/Blogs
http://www.andertoons.com/free-cartoons/
• Response to Criticism of Repository Route to Open Access
http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk/index.php/response-to-criticism-of-repository-route-to-oa
• Open Access in UK: Reinventing the Big Deal
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/open-access-in-uk-reinventing-big-deal.html
• A Plea for Open Science in Medicine
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harlankrumholz/2012/10/04/a-plea-for-open-science-in-medicine/
• Public access and development - The impact of public access venues and the benefits of libraries
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/20918/Global%20Impact%20Study%20brief%201.pdf?sequence=1
• Making Open Access work in the Social Sciences
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&context=charleston
• Research matters: Students will reap the benefits of new thinking on access to valuable research materials
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/research-matters-students-will-reap-the-benefits-of-new-thinking-on-access-to-valuable-research-materials-8167978.html

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o    Open Access in a legal context

Journals
"De Jure is a general law journal, accredited by the Department of Education.
It publishes original research concerned with the development and dissemination of cutting-edge legal research, both national and international. The scope of the journal is wide and supports legal academics, practitioners and scholars." 
  • DOAJ list for law and political science
"DOAJ is the Directory of Open Access Journals, a project which aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The Law section provides basic information on and links to about 155 legal journals from jurisdictions worldwide."


"The Duke Law Journal is among the few leading legal journals that make the full content of all articles published in the Journal available free"
  • Open Access Law journals list compiled by CreativeCommons
"Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools." 


"The Journal of Legal Analysis, founded in 2009, is a fully open access peer-reviewed general journal on all aspects of law, based at Harvard Law School.  Links to other open access journals also provided here."
  • Sabinet Open Access Journals list 
"The collection currently comprises 46 South African journals, which may be searched individually, and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles. Of the journals in the collection, 15 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or the IBSS list. New journal titles and issues are added to the collection on an ongoing basis."

Articles (from Google Scholar, but some articles also available on databases UJ subscribes to)


  • Download It While It's Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship
LB Solum - Lewis & Clark L. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
Pdf article

 "This Article analyzes the shift of legal scholarship from the old world of law reviews to today's
world of peer reviews to tomorrow's world of open access legal blogs. This shift is occurring
in three dimensions. First, legal scholarship is moving from the long form (treatises and ..."


  • The economics of open access law publishing 

    J Litman - Lewis & Clark Law Review, 2006 - works.bepress.com
    Pdf article

    Abstract "The conventional model of scholarly publishing uses the copyright system as a
    lever to induce commercial publishers and printers to disseminate the results of scholarly
    research. The role of copyright in the dissemination of scholarly research is in many ways ...

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o    Open Access articles (selection) available on UJ databases 

  • Academic OneFile



  • EbscoHost





  • ScienceDirect

























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