ERCIM News - special European theme - Open Access

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

     ** apologies for cross-posting **

ERCIM European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
     http://www.ercim.org/
will publish in January a special issue of ERCIM News that goes far beyond 
Informatics and Mathematics to Open Access (OA) to all research.

The President of ERCIM, Professor Keith Jeffery
     http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw60/keith.html
Director of IT for CCLRC, is also on the Research Councils UK
committee that is drafting RCUK's OA policy:
     http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp

The ERCIM special issue contains Professor Jeffery's overview of OA, plus 
clear overviews of the Green and Gold Route to OA (OA self-archiving and 
OA publishing) and the benefits OA brings to European and worldwide 
research, along with the ERCIM Statement on OA. An overview of CC licenses 
and of the role of the Worldwide Web Consortium in OA is followed by the 
closing article on Netherlands' highly successful "Cream of Science" 
project for showcasing its research output with the help of the OAI 
protocol.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:31:46 -0000
From: "Jeffery, KG (Keith)" <K.G.Jeffery@rl.ac.uk>

ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) has a 
quarterly newsletter which is very widely read and cited.  The January 
2006 issue will have a special section on Open Access.  Information on 
ERCIM is at
     http://www.ercim.org/

The newsletter in e-form (free) will appear on this page (left side) in
early January.  Paper copies (free) can be ordered using the top-line
options at
     http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw63/

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Contents:

         Open Access:
         An Introduction
         by Keith G Jeffery (ERCIM, CCLRC)

         Publish or Perish - Self-Archive to Flourish:
         The Green Route to Open Access
         by Stevan Harnad (Southampton, UQaM)

         The Golden Route to Open Access
         by Jan Velterop (Springer)

         ERCIM Statement on Open Access

         Managing Licenses
         in an Open Access Community
         by Renato Iannella (NICTA)

         W3C at the Forefront of Open Access
         by Rigo Wenning (W3C)

         Cream of Science
         by Wouter Mettrop (CWI)

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