Open Access for the Australian Medical Librarian

Morrison, Heather and Waller, Andrew Open Access for the Australian Medical Librarian. Health Inform, 2008, n. Spring. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good” (Budapest Open Access Initiative)1. Recent events are transforming the possibility of this unprecedented public good into a reality, with medical literature leading the way. The Directory of Open Access Journals lists close to 3,200 fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals as of February 2008. More than 400 of the journals in DOAJ are in the health sciences. DOAJ is growing rapidly, adding more than 1.5 titles per calendar day. PubMedCentral (PMC) is the world’s largest open access archive, with well over a million items. An international network, PMC International, is envisioned, with copies of the whole archive around the world for preservation and security, as well as a local option for deposit. Watch for rapid growth of PMC as medical research funders, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, the U.K. Medical Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, among others, are requiring public or open access to the research they fund. There are implications, and leadership opportunities, for librarians in the open access environment.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Open Access, Medical librarianship, Medical libraries
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DK. Health libraries, Medical libraries.
Depositing user: Andrew Waller
Date deposited: 23 Apr 2008
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:11
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/11428

References

1. Budapest Open Archives Initiative [homepage on the Internet]. [Feb 14,2002]. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml.

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citation impact: a bibliography of studies. The Open Citation Project: Reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives. http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html.

3. Van Orsdel, Lee C. Van & Kathleen Born. Periodicals Price Survey 2007: Serial Wars. Library Journal, 4/15/2007

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6431958.html

4. Morrison, H. Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series [quarterly series] http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2006/08/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-series.html

5. Kaufmann-Wills. The Facts About Open Access. Free to download from http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=200

6. Oxford Journals Update. Issue 2, Winter 2007/2008

7. Rentier, Bernard, Recteur, Université de Liège. L’EUA se lance dans l’OA. Pour une université ouverte et interactive. Weblog.

http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=171

Note:

This article is a revised and updated version of Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller’s Open Access for the Medical Librarian, Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, Vol 27 Number 3, Summer 2006.

http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla3-06.html

Further Resources

For further information and links to key resources, please see Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview:

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

For daily news, see Open Access News:

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html


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