Peter Suber, Open Access News Prices for site licence access to The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports will be reduced by 9% in 2010, reflecting the increased publication of Open Access content in 2008. Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) announced the decision today, following ratification by the EMBO Council. [...]

Petition for OA to publicly-funded research in the US The organizations sponsoring the petition are the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), FreeCulture, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Public Knowledge (PK), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

OA because it supports mirrors, mashups, and mining The Creative Commons Attribution License under which open access articles are made available by both BioMed Central and PLoS allows others to create sites that incorporate the content of these articles, so long as the original source is clearly acknowledged. Two ways to do this are mashups [...]

Christina’s LIS Rant: AAP hires a PR firm to fight back against open access The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Stop fighting the inevitable – and free funds for OA! Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News [...]

Boing Boing: Our faulty intuition about open systems Jamie Boyle’s latest Financial Times column points up a cognitive bias we seem to have against open systems — on their face, open networks, encyclopedias, and software projects seem unlikely, even doomed. Our intuition about closed-vs-open is often wrong:

Peter Suber, Open Access News More evidence that journal prices don’t correlate with quality or impact

Peter Suber, Open Access News The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net, a popular site for hosting code-sharing projects. The software will be available under the BSD open-source license. The software, developed by a France-based Microsoft partner, will allow people to use Microsoft Office to open and save documents [...]

Peter Suber, Open Access News Springer proposes a policy that would require full-text open access immediately upon publication –provided that the policy makes clear that publishing in peer-reviewed journals is an inseparable part of research and therefore that the funds for doing so (article processing fees) will be available to researchers as a special overhead [...]

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Congrats to U.S. Senators Cornyn & Lieberman! Experience has shown that a request to deposit research articles is not enough; this led to a dismal 4% compliance rate. A clear-cut mandate to deposit is what is needed, and what the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) of 2006 accomplishes. [...]

Open Access News Paradise Publishers Inc, a web based publishing firm acquired the website www.Free-eBooks.net earlier this month….The site currently generates over 26 million hits monthly and Paradise Publishers Inc. plans to increase traffic tremendously by creating the world’s largest free e-book online database. “We want to be people’s source of information” says Nicolas Gremion, [...]