New interface for DOAJ

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has announced a new interface, which can be seen at www.doaj.org. There is a note about the new interface here.

Also, in a posting to the American Science Open Access Forum, Anna-Lena Johansson from DOAJ notes:

"Now there are more than 6300 journals from more than 110 countries in more than 50 languages in the DOAJ. More than 2500 journals are providing metadata on article level, which means that more than 500,000 articles are searchable from DOAJ."

U.S. Urgent Action Alert: Act by April 14 to expand NIH mandate

Details at SPARC

College and Research Libraries goes open access!

ACRL's College and Research Libraries is going open access - details here! Kudos to ACRL!

Librarians Against DRM shareable icons

Free reusable icons - librarians / authors against DRM:
http://readersbillofrights.info/

thanks to Alvin Schrader

March 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber has just released the March 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month: 6 recent watershed events for OA. So far, love the blurb from an upcoming Publishers Association / Association of Learned and Scholarly Publishers meeting which starts: Open access is here to stay, and has the support of our key partners

Core values of librarianshp

Thanks to the American Library Association for articulating these 11 Core Values of Librarianship. I'm repeating the full list here - for convenience as I've had trouble finding these on the ALA website before - and also because they are worth repeating. This is what librarianship is all about!

The foundation of modern librarianship rests on an essential set of core values, which define, inform, and guide all professional practice. These values reflect the history and ongoing development of the profession and have been advanced, expanded, and refined by numerous policy statements of the American Library Association. Among these are:

• Access
• Confidentiality/Privacy
• Democracy
• Diversity
• Education and Lifelong Learning
• Intellectual Freedom
• Preservation
• The Public Good
• Professionalism
• Service
• Social Responsibility

It would be difficult, if not impossible, to express our values more eloquently than ALA already has in the Freedom to Read statement, the Library Bill of Rights, the ALA Mission Statement, Libraries: an American Value and other documents. These policies have been carefully thought out, articulated, debated, and approved by the ALA Council. They are interpreted, revised, or expanded when necessary. Over time, the values embodied in these statements have been embraced by the majority of librarians as the foundations of their practice. Adopted, 2004.

Thanks to Al Kagan for the pointer.

February 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the February 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Highlighted this month is the US Department of Labor mandate for Open Educational Resources (OER) and Word Contest #2, coming up with terminology for the phrase to "provide open access to."

Science Online 2011 tweeting and streaming

If you can't make it to the Jan. 13-15 Science Online meeting, note that there will be live tweeting and streaming - see http://scienceonline2011.com/ and http://www.science3point0.com/scio11/ (thanks to Graham Steel).

Polish version of 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

The 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available in Polish here and here - many thanks to E-LIS Editor Bożena Bednarek-Michalska. The English version can be found here.

December 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the December 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month is an in-depth look at open access in 2010 - a busy year for OA!

2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

The 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available.

Excerpt:

2010 was the strongest year for open access growth so far. In 2010, 1,401 journals were added to DOAJ for a total of 5,936 journals. The Electronic Journals Library now records over 27,000 journals that can be read free of charge; over 3,500 were added in 2010. 1,037 journals actively participate in PubMedCentral, an increase of 313 over the past year, and more than half of these journals contribute all articles as open access. PMC now provides access to over 3.2 million free articles, an increase of over 300,000 this year. OpenDOAR lists 1,817 repositories, having added 257 this year. A Scientific Commons search encompasses 38 million items, an increase of over 6 million since last year. There are 261 open access mandate policies, an increase of 83 this year.

Happy New Year to the Open Access movement!

Heather Morrison

ELPUB 2011: Call for submissions

The deadline for proposals for the ELPUB 2011 conference, the 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing to be held July 11-15, Istanbul, Turkey, is coming up on January 14. The theme for this year's conference is Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies.

Open Access Week dates: 2011 - 2015

Open Access Week 2011 will take place all over the world between October 24 and 30. In future, Open Access Week will be the last *full* week of October:

2011: Oct 24 - 30
2012: Oct 22 - 28
2013: Oct 21 - 27
2014: Oct 20 - 26
2015: Oct 19 - 25

Details on the program for 2011 will be announced in the New Year.

Thanks to:

Jennifer McLennan
Program Director, Open Access Week

December 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber has just released the December 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Highlights: 11th hour for SCOAP3 and The US Elections and Open Access.

November 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the November 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Highlighted this month: politically selective calls for open access.

http://www.arl.org/news/pr/iscwebinar-04oct10.shtml

Register by Nov. 10 for next (and last) ARL ACRL Institute for Scholarly Communication Webinar with Joyce Ogburn & Heather Morrison on the topic, The Future is Now!

Simon Fraser University joins the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE)

SFU is the latest signatory to the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity, COPE.

Happy Open Access Week!

Happy Open Access Week from and to all OA Librarians! Still scrambling to finalize plans? Don't forget to check out the OA Week Ning, or check the Open Access Directory page to see what others or doing - or add a link to your own event!

SPARC Open Access Week Webcast with Nobel prize winner

Free webcast, to schedule with your OA Week activities at your convenience, will be available under embargo as of October 14 - for details, see Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

October 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just released the October 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter (Peter's 150th). Highlighted this month: Peter's own experiences with self-archiving.