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unusual facts about Open Access


Open access

In 2013, open access activist Aaron Swartz was posthumously awarded the American Library Association's James Madison Award for being an "outspoken advocate for public participation in government and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scholarly articles".


Asian Ethnology

Asian Ethnology is an open access semi-annual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the promotion of research on the peoples and cultures of Asia.

Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship calls for all law schools to stop publishing their law journals in print format and to rely instead on open access electronic publication coupled with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in stable, open, digital formats.

Journal of Lutheran Ethics

The Journal of Lutheran Ethics is a bimonthly open access academic journal that covers ethical issues from Christian perspectives with special attention to the confessional tradition of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications

The Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications is an online open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the European Optical Society.

Michigan Journal of Business

The Michigan Journal of Business is a biannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by undergraduate students at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business (University of Michigan).

Nordbib

Nordbib was given three major focus areas (named "work packages") vis-a-vis open access to clarify its mission: Policy & Visibility, Content & Accessibility, and Infrastructure & Interoperability respectively.

The Science and Information Organization

The SAI Organization is a CrossRef registered publisher member and all articles and papers published in its journals are Open Access and assigned a DOI.


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Anita Coleman

Anita Coleman is also the founder of an interdisciplinary open access repository, dLIST - Digital Library of Information Science and Technology.

Ann Wolpert

As director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries from 1996 to 2013, she was instrumental in a variety of projects, including leading an initiative between MIT and Hewlett Packard to develop the DSpace digital repository system, and supporting MIT OpenCourseWare, one of the earliest large-scale projects to provide open access to university course materials.

Black Down, Somerset

Black Down is an open-access area mostly consisting of moors, with dense cover of associated vegetation such as heather and bracken.

Frances Pinter

Dr Frances Pinter is the founder and executive director of Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit company creating a global library consortium enabling sustainable open access academic book publishing.

Hybrid open access journal

On October 19, 2009, one such funding agency, the Wellcome Trust, expressed concerns about hybrid open-access fees being paid twice, through subscriptions and through publication fees.

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

The telescope site agreement with the University of Hawaii provides observer accommodation and infrastructure in exchange for open access to international proposals and 10 per cent of the observing time for the University's own projects.

Jeffrey Beall

In 2013, it was reported that OMICS Publishing Group, which had been included on Beall's list of predatory open access publishers, had issued a warning to Beall stating that they intended to sue him, and were seeking $1 billion in damages.

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

The Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal on ayurvedic medicine.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication from IOP Publishing providing readers with the latest developments in physics presented at international conferences.

Library publishing

In 2011 in the UK, Jisc funded three library publishing projects: Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (HOAP) at the University of Huddersfield, SAS Open Journals at the University of London, and EPICURE at UCL.

Michael Eisen

In 2012 Eisen began protesting against the Research Works Act as part of his appeal to promote open access to information.

Montgomery College

Montgomery College (M.C.) is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C..

One Nevada Transmission Line

25% of the transmission line is owned by NV Energy which will operate and offer the line's capacity under the terms of NV Energy's Open Access Transmission Tariff.

Open access mandate

Among the funding organizations that haveadopted open-access mandates for grant recipients are National Institutes of Health (with the NIH Public Access Policy), Research Councils UK, National Fund for Scientific Research, Wellcome Trust and European Research Council.

For a full index of institutional and funder open-access mandates adopted to date, see the Registry of Open Access Mandatory Archiving Polices (ROARMAP).

Among the universities that have adopted open-access mandates for faculty are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, Queensland University of Technology, University of Minho, University of Liege and ETH Zürich.

Open Humanities Press

OHP's editorial board includes leading scholars and open access advocates such as Alain Badiou, Jonathan Culler, Stephen Greenblatt, Jean-Claude Guédon, J. Hillis Miller, Antonio Negri, Peter Suber and Gayatri Spivak among others.

Pål Johan Karlsen

At the end of 2013, he launched the Open Access journal Scandinavian Psychologist together with the Norwegian Society of Psychological Science.

Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal

The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published and edited by Paul Ernest (University of Exeter).

PhysMath Central

PMC Physics A and B were discontinued in 2011 in favor of EPJ Open, the open-access component of the European Physical Journal.

Predatory open-access publishing

The term "predatory open access" was conceived by University of Colorado Denver librarian and researcher Jeffrey Beall.

Richard Danner

Danner is co-author, with John Palfrey of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship of 2008, which advocates for the open access publishing of law journals.

Shiloh, Florida

Located immediately north of the U.S. Government's Kennedy Space Center, the open access to the flyover range on the open Atlantic Ocean to the east, and easy access to the tracking facilities of the Eastern Test Range make the location attractive on many margins.

Snowtown, South Australia

Pupils are also able to study via distance education through the Open Access College at Marden (Adelaide) or via local delivery with neighbouring schools to increase their range of subject choices, particularly in Years 11 and 12.

Stockport to Stalybridge Line

Grand Union, a new open access train operating company, had proposed using the line for passenger services between London and Bradford via the West Coast Main Line, using Guide Bridge station as a stop.

Tom Winsor

Two open access operators were joined in the case as interested third parties, one of which, Grand Central Railway Company Ltd, was a client of White & Case.

Winton, Dorset

It was one of the first public libraries in the country to allow open access to the shelves; and it was here that Flora Thompson read the literature on which she based her literary career culminating in her autobiographical trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford.