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Näder, Johannes. "Open Access." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-160760.
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Seit der Jahrtausendwende prägt das Schlagwort Open Access die Debatten um wissenschaftliches Publizieren. Je nach Kontext geht es dabei um handfeste Strategien angesichts der Zeitschriftenkrise, um ein mehr oder weniger einheitliches Programm zur Verabschiedung des Gutenberg-Zeitalters oder um visionäre Vorstellungen digitaler Wissenskulturen.
Die Untersuchung verfolgt zwei Ziele: Zunächst erklärt sie, auf welche Konzepte sich der Begriff Open Access bezieht, wie sich diese Konzepte entwickelt haben und wie sie zusammenfassend beschrieben werden können. Diese Betrachtungsweise ermöglicht es, Open Access in einem zweiten Schritt aus seiner strategischen und programmatischen Funktionalisierung zu lösen und medien-/kulturwissenschaftlich zu deuten: Nicht zufällig entsteht die Open-Access-Bewegung zu einem Zeitpunkt, da sich die medientechnischen Infrastrukturen der Gesellschaft und damit auch der Wissenschaft tiefgreifend verändern. Die Untersuchung analysiert Open Access als den Versuch der Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft, durch die Beeinflussung des Mediensystems auch unter veränderten medialen Bedigungen wissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeit herstellen zu können und dabei Verwerfungen für wissenschaftliche Arbeitsabläufe und für das gesamte Wissenssystem zu vermeiden.
Dabei wird deutlich, dass verschiedene Disziplinen unterschiedliche Anforderungen an wissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeit haben und dass daher Aushandlungsprozesse nötig sind. Gleichzeitig reflektiert die Untersuchung, dass es sich bei den gerade entstehenden neuen Medieninfrastrukturen genau wie beim sich wandelnden wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen um fragile, grundsätzlich kontingente Strukturen handelt, deren Zukunft keineswegs gesichert ist: Statt Open Access könnten sich auch andere Organisationsformen wissenschaftlicher Öffentlichkeit im digitalen Zeitalter etablieren, die aber nicht unbedingt im Sinne eines offenen und produktiven wissenschaftlichen Austausches und einer breiten gesellschaftlichen Partizipation an wissenschaftlicher Kultur sein müssen. Open Access erscheint vor diesem Hintergrund als vorsichtiger und vergleichweise schadensarmer Aushandlungsprozess, nicht als radikale Revolution des Wissenschaftssystems an der Schwelle zum digitalen Zeitalter.
Methodisch knüpft die Untersuchung an die Mediologie an, die durch die Beschreibung von Wechselwirkungen zwischen technischen Medien und kulturellen Praxen die Konstruktion einseitiger Kausalzusammenhänge vermeiden will. In einem Exkurs wird untersucht, worin sich die Konzepte von Open Access und Open Source bzw. Freier Software unterscheiden. Der Anhang der Arbeit enthält den Volltext der drei Erklärungen von Budapest, Bethesda und Berlin, in denen wichtige Prinzipien von Open Access niedergelegt sind.
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Bove, Jens. "Open Access 2.0." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1237556606026-59807.
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Open Access bezeichnet den Wunsch, wissenschaftliche Literatur und Materialien im Internet prinzipiell frei zugänglich zu machen. Die Open Access-Bewegung hat sich in den 1990er Jahren unter dem Druck der steigenden Preise für wissenschaftliche Publikationen bei gleichzeitig stagnierenden oder schrumpfenden Bibliotheksetats entwickelt. Mit der „Berliner Erklärung über offenen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen“ von 2003 richtet sich die Forderung über die freie Zugänglichkeit wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriftenliteratur hinaus ausdrücklich auch auf andere Kulturgüter in Archiven, Bibliotheken und Museen.
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Hungin, A. Pali S. "Open access gastroscopy." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295539.
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Ho, Adrian K., and Charles W. Bailey. "Open Access Webliography." Emerald, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105538.
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This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. It covers resources such as bibliographies, directories, guides, journals, mailing lists, organizations, projects, publishers and distributors, search engines, and Weblogs.
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Bailey, Charles W. "Open Access Bibliography." Association of Research Libraries, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106437.
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The Open Access Bibliography for liberating scholarly literature with E-Prints and Access Journals presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources. These are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. Although most sources have been published between 1999 and August 31, 2004, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 are also included. This is a publication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the printed book can be ordered from ARL: http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/
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Weishaupt, Karin. "Open-Access-Zeitschriften." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15959.
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Bei aller Aufmerksamkeit, die das Thema Open Access seit einigen Jahren erfährt, ist die praktische Nutzung längst noch nicht so weit gediehen, wie es von den technischen Voraussetzungen her möglich wäre: Nur 0,8 % aller Zeitschriften in Deutschland oder 2 % der wissenschaftlichen sind frei zugänglich. Es mangelt an Akzeptanz seitens der Autor/inn/n. Auf der Basis einer Befragung von ca. 1000 Personen, die bereits mindestens einen Aufsatz in einer Open-Access-Zeitschrift veröffentlicht haben, werden Maßnahmen entwickelt, wie die Akzeptanz verbessert werden kann. Bei der Analyse der Antworten erweisen sich die Unterschiede für mögliche Fördermaßnahmen zwischen den einzelnen Fachdisziplinen als längst nicht so ausgeprägt, wie es aufgrund des unterschiedlichen Standes von Open Access in den verschiedenen Fächern zu erwarten wäre. Von elementarer Bedeutung ist vielmehr die Frage, welche Ziele der/die einzelne beim Open-Access-Publizieren verfolgt; daraus ergeben sich Ansatzpunkte für fördernde Maßnahmen. Die größte Barriere für die Durchsetzung des Open-Access-Publizierens stellt das etablierte System der Forschungsevaluation dar, das sich fachübergreifend im Begutachtungsverfahren und in den Naturwissenschaften und der Medizin im Impact Factor manifestiert. Hieraus entstehen Akzeptanzhindernisse, die sachlich nicht gerechtfertigt sind und kritisch hinterfragt werden müssen. Mittelfristig ist der Ersatz des Impact Factors durch Verfahren anzustreben, die modernen Publikationsformen besser gerecht werden. Ein internationaler Vergleich zeigt, dass die Schwellenländer nicht nur durch Open Access unterstützt werden, sondern ihrerseits bemerkenswerte Aktivitäten und Erfolge vorzuweisen haben, die weltweit Vorbildcharakter haben und Anregungen für Maßnahmen zur Akzeptanzsteigerung in Deutschland bieten können. Bezüglich Open Access ist daher anstelle der Förderung der Dritten Welt eher ein Eine-Welt-Denken angebracht, bei dem alle Beteiligten voneinander lernen können<br>Although open access has been discussed intensively for some years, it is far away from being practised to a degree that would meet the actual technical standard. Only 0.8 % of all journals produced in Germany or 2 % of all German scientific journals are in open access. The problem to be overcome is the lack of acceptance by authors. As result of a survey among about 1000 persons who have already published at least one article in an open access journal, measures are suggested how acceptance can be improved. Considering the varying status open access has reached, differences between possible measures in the discliplines prove to be less distinctive as expected. The core question rather is which are the aims of the authors publishing in open access journals. Knowing their aims, measures to enhance acceptance can be derived. The highest barriere for open access is the established system of evaluating scientific research. Accross all disciplines the most important practise is peer reviewing of articles, in sciences and medicine the impact factor is of special importance. This is why the acceptance of open access journals without impact factor is low even if these journals may be characterized by high quality. Therefore the system of evaluation should be reviewed critically, and the impact factor might be substituted by other methods that take into account the specific qualities of modern forms of publications. An international comparison shows that open access does not only support the developing countries in their academic development. Rather, these countries offer considerable activities and achievements that can serve as models for the rest of the world and provide incitations for the improvement of the situation in Germany. This taken as a fact, we should not speak of less developed countries that need support, but rather of one world in which all countries are partners who can learn from each other.
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Haider, Jutta. "Open access and closed discourses : constructing open access as a 'development' issue." Thesis, City University London, 2008. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8589/.
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This thesis investigates the connection between open access - the free online availability and distribution of scientific and scholarly publications - and the 'developing world' from a post-development perspective. It takes a discourse analytical approach, drawing predominantly on Michel Foucault's understanding in discourse. It aims to answer the following questions: - Which notions of science, of development and progress, of knowledge as well as of information and technology are capitalised on in the open access debates and in which way are they shaped as a consequence? - Which discursive effects can be established, what are the results and of which kind are they? The thesis is divided into six chapters, chapters 2 to 5 are grouped into two parts. In the introduction (chapter 1) the general problem space is outlined, the connection between the open access movement and the 'developing world' is established; the research approach is briefly sketched, followed by a presentation of the research questions. Furthermore, the relevance of the study for Library and Information Science is discussed. Chapter 2 introduces the notion of discourse. It contains a discussion of the Foucauldian concept of discourse in relation to the notions of knowledge, truth, and power, as well as resistance, governmentality, and pastoral power. The manifestation of discourse in language is discussed with reference to Michel pecheux. The way in which discourses are dispersed unevenly in society is examined. It concludes with a presentation of the concept of the discursive procedure, which forms the basis for the analyses. Chapter 3 introduces post-development theory, specifically focusing on development discourse. It presents and problematises the concept of devt;lopment, of poverty and ignorance, as well as of science. The historical foundations of dev~lopmentdiscourse and the role of science and technology in it are examined. Chapter 4 investigates the representation of open access in its relation to development. It is based on a corpus consisting of 38 articles and similar publications and 5 statements and declarations. The latter are also examined from a genre perspective. The following discursive procedures are identified: (1) Leaving a blank or defining the undefinable: 111e elusiveness of the 'developing world', (2) Technologism and technological determinism, (3) Economism, (4) Scientific centralism and scientism, (5) Temporal distancing. It concludes with a discussion of the guiding metaphor, the divide. Chapter 5 investigates how open access is debated in the context of development. It draws on a two-week long email debate organised by a development institution in 2006. 146 postings by 49 participants are included in the analysis. The following discursive procedures are identified: (1) Technologism, (2) The role of the profession: mediation, translation, and control, (3) Rural people and the lack of education, (4) Developmentalism and antidev~ lopmentalism: Positioning oneself in and against development. It concludes with a discussion of the guiding metaphor, the barrier, as well as ofidentity construction. The concluding chapter 6 is concerned with providing a sum-up of the analyses with a view to answering the research questions. It considers a possible future for the open access movement in its relation to the 'developing world' and concludes with a brief discussion of issues relevant for future research. The main findings suggest that the 'developing world' is constructed around the coordinates provided by mainstream development thought. Open access is inserted into its discursive repertoire as a problem of development, a tool for its delivery, and its measure. The dominant understanding of information adheres to a sender/receiver model. However, ruptures occur in significant places. This requires a partial re-positioning of the way in which development is framed and of open access' role in it.
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Wohlfarth, Dagmar, and Tobias Rothe. "1000 x Open access." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1191935304231-19766.
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Kühle, Gerrit, Edith Reschke, and Matti Stöhr. "Open Access meets Saxony!" SLUB Dresden, 2017. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A7936.
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Open Access steht für den freien Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Publikationen über das Internet. Die Open-Access-Tage, kurz OA-Tage, sind die zentrale jährliche Konferenz zu diesem Thema im deutschsprachigen Raum. In diesem Jahr findet die Tagung erstmals in Dresden statt.
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Priyanto, Ida F. "Readiness of Indonesian Academic Libraries for Open Access and Open Access Repositories Implementation: a Study on Indonesian Open Access Repositories Registered in OpenDOAR." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804888/.
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Scholarly and scientific communication has a long history, while the Open Access (OA) movement began to take part in this communication with the emergence of Internet in the late 1960s and the web that emerged in mid-1990s. OA is beneficial for sharing knowledge because the OA movement demands scholarly literature freely available on the internet and it is free of most licensing restriction copyright. OA will close the barrier of access to knowledge. The OA movement in Indonesia may be considered slow. So far, only 33 academic libraries have registered their repositories with OpenDOAR, which is still small compared to the total number of HE institutions in Indonesia. Those 33 OARs vary in the stages of development. Some have already had large size of contents, while others are still developing. Using Weiner’s theory of organizational readiness for change, this mixed method investigates the readiness of academic librarians for Open Access Repository implementation. The results show that academic librarians in Indonesia are somewhat familiar with OA and OAR. However, their understanding of OA is still limited to the technical nature of it. They also know the benefits of OA in relation to scholarly communication and are ready to implement OAR, but the implementation was mostly based on the goal of achieving a specific rank in the world-class university ranking and Webometrics. They implemented Open Access Repositories with limited technological infrastructure, skills, and limited knowledge of OA.
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Carlborg, Anna. "Vetenskaplig kommunikation genom open access. Forskares attityder till open access-publicering inom odontologisk forskning." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16748.
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Open access has played a significant part in the development of scholarlycommunication. Today, several research funding agencies around the worldrequires that the results of the research it supports must be published openaccess where the underlying idea is that publicly funded research should befree and available to all users. The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the issueof open access publishing from the perspective of researchers in the field ofodontology, focused on their attitudes, behaviors and publishing experienceswith open access. Through a qualitative interview study with fiveodontological researchers, the results have been compared to previous studieson researchers' attitudes and experiences with open access. The results showthat both knowledge and experience with open access publishing is fairly lowamong the participating scientists. Generally, a positive attitude towards openaccess in other research areas can be identified among odontologicalresearchers, but when it comes to publishing within their own discipline openaccess is considered to be insignificant, so due to the availability of journalsamong the researchers considered to be adequate to cover their informationneeds. The results also identifies a negative view of open access publishingthrough institutional repositories, as these are not considered to add any valueto their career development. A quantitative study would have given a moregeneral view of researchers' attitudes and experiences of open accesspublishing. The results of this paper should therefore not be generalized andconsidered as representative of all researchers within the odontologicalresearch discipline.<br>Program: Bibliotekarie
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Blumtritt, Ute, Henriette Rösch, and Michaela Voigt. "Open Access-Zeitschriften leicht gemacht." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-148688.
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Über die Publikationsfonds der DFG, mit denen Gebühren für Veröffentlichungen in Open Access-Zeitschriften für sächsische Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler bezuschusst werden können, berichteten wir im letzten Heft. Daneben bieten die drei Hochschulbibliotheken in Chemnitz, Leipzig und Dresden jeweils auch die Möglichkeit, selbst Open-Access-Journale herauszugeben. Open Access-Zeitschriften ermöglichen ohne Umwege direkten und kostenfreien Zugriff. Deshalb unterstützen Bibliotheken weltweit Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler auch bei der Herausgabe eigener Open Access-Zeitschriften.
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Vock, Rubina. "Open Access – Publikationsfreiheit oder Enteignung?" Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-200901790.
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Seit dem Artikel des Geisteswissenschaftlers Roland Reuß „Open Access: Eine heimliche technokratische Machtergreifung“ und dem Heidelberger Appell im März 2009 entstand eine heftige Debatte um Open Access und die Publikationsfreiheit. Der folgende Vortrag gibt eine kurze Einführung in Google Books und das Google Book Settlement, den Reaktionen der VG Wort und dem Aktionsbündnis für „Urheberrecht in Bildung und Wissenschaft“ sowie dem Open-Access-Prinzip. Anhand von Befürworterstimmen des Heidelberger Appells aus der Presse werden die dortigen Kernaussagen „Open Access sei kostenlos“, „Open Access sei von schlechter Qualität“ und „Open Access würde die Autor/innen ihrer Urheberrechte berauben“ diskutiert und die Undifferenziertheit dieser Aussagen aufgezeigt.
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Watson, Roger. "Evolving trends in Open Access." Universität Leipzig, 2019. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A33909.
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With the growth of open access publishing there has been a concomitant growth in the number of predatory publishers. This article considers why open access has arisen and the various models under which it operates before considering the nature of predatory publishers and what can be done to stop them.
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Goodman, David. "The Criteria for Open Access." Elsevier, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105891.
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Special Issue: Open Access 2004, doi:10l1016/j.serrev.2004.09.009<br>Each proposal for Open Access (OA) has its unique combination of features; each argument for or against OA focuses on particular features or criteria. This article is intended to discuss these criteria, both individually and also as each of them contributes to the different proposals for OA. Evaluation of the proposals themselves is not attempted. This discussion is intended to be of value to the supporters of OA, in choosing which plan to adopt, and to those opposed to OA, in showing where the weaknesses do and do not lie. In other words, this article intends to improve the level of factual understanding in the ongoing discussions.
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Goodman, David. "Open Access: What Comes Next." Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105958.
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Please see the revised version
"Open Access: What Comes Next After 2004"
(also in this archive)<br>This article examines the effects
that present decisions about open access (OA) will
have over the next ten years. It will be shown that
the consequences are affected both by deliberate
choices of policy by librarians and publishers, as
well as by the adoption of various alternatives by
scientific authors. The eventual result could be
excellent, or quite otherwise.
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Ottosson, Sara. "Open Access och forskarna. En attitydundersökning." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-101780.
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Bürger, Thomas. "Open Access für die Digitale Bibliothek." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-63372.
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Im Internet hat die Wissensgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts ihr Medium der Zukunft gefunden. Aus der historischen Perspektive der Aufklärung ist die Menschheit dem Ziel näher denn je, möglichst vielen Menschen ungehinderten Zugang zu Information und Wissen zu verschaffen.
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Francis, Michael Peter. "Open-access resources and international trade." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0016/NQ48328.pdf.
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Maget, Sara, and Rosa Elena Di. "Internationale Open Access Week in Dresden." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101909.
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Den Wunsch, dass wissenschaftliche Inhalte frei verfügbar und nutzbar sein sollten, gibt es nicht erst seit dem tiefgreifenden Strukturwandel durch das Internet. Die technischen Möglichkeiten haben diesen Wunsch allerdings in eine konkrete Forderung gewandelt, die sich in dem Begriff Open Access manifestiert, und die von nationalen und internationalen Wissenschaftsorganisationen getragen wird.
Die Internationale Open Access Week gilbt all - jährlich als Anlass, um Open Access nicht nur in Fachkreisen zu diskutieren, sondern auch mit WissenschaftlerInnen, StudentInnen und allen Interessierten. Die SLUB Dresden hat die Woche vom 22. bis 28. Oktober genutzt, um für Open Access mit verschiedenen Veranstaltungen zu werben.
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Brandt, Sebastian. "Open Access-Monographien in den Geisteswissenschaften." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-164526.
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Im Juli und August 2014 habe ich im Rahmen meines Bibliotheksreferendariats fünf Wochen an der SLUB Dresden verbracht. Schwerpunkte des Praktikums waren die Themen „Open Access“ und „Digitalisierung“, Zentrum die AG „Elektronisches Publizieren“, die sich mit unterschiedlichsten Aspekten der Problematik beschäftigt — von Fragen der bibliometrischen Analyse über die Betreuung des Dokumentenservers „Qucosa“ bis hin zu Rechtsfragen bei Open Access-Veröffentlichungen. Neben der Mitarbeit in der Gruppe und dem Kennenlernen anderer Abteilungen der SLUB, die sich im Umfeld von Digitalisierung und elektronischem Publizieren bewegen, habe ich während des fünfwöchigen Aufenthalts in Dresden auch ein eigenes Projekt bearbeitet: es ging um die Bewertung von Open Access- Monographien im Bereich der Geistes- und speziell der Geschichtswissenschaften.
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Maier, Gunther. "Why you should publish open access." ERSA (European Regional Science Association), 2015. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5370/1/84%2D350%2D1%2DPB.pdf.
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Morrison, Heather. "Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)." Charleston Advisor, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/871.
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The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the world’s most authoritative list of scholarly, peer-reviewed, fully open access journals, and a “must” for libraries of all types. As of August 2007, DOAJ includes over 2,800 titles, over 10% of the world’s estimated 20-25,000 peer-reviewed scholarly journal titles. This is an impressive list; in terms of numbers of titles, DOAJ compares favorably with commercial journal packages. DOAJ is growing rapidly, at a rate of more than one title per calendar day. DOAJ’s highly functional and aesthetically pleasing interface features a number of search options, including a new search option for authors looking for open access or hybrid journals to publish in. DOAJ is freely available, and working towards economic sustainability through an optional membership / sponsorship program. This article examines the DOAJ membership program in some depth. Membership fees for libraries and library consortia are an incredible bargain. The membership fee for DOAJ’s 2,800 (and growing) title list is less than the average subscription cost for a single journal in any scientific discipline, and DOAJ represents significant staff time savings for libraries. The promotional benefits of DOAJ membership are important to position libraries for leadership in the internet age, and especially in the key emerging area of scholarly communications. DOAJ is a very popular service among libraries, with a strong reputation for quality; membership or sponsorship is likely to be highly beneficial to library service providers. As a free resource, DOAJ is strongly recommended for all libraries. DOAJ titles can be included in A-Z journal lists, library catalogues or websites, and subject-specific URLs can be added to subject guides or pathfinders.
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Morrison, Heather, and Andrew Waller. "Open access for the medical librarian." Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/952.
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In this article open access is defined, and the resources and issues of greatest relevance to the medical librarian are discussed. The economics of open access publishing is examined from the point of view of the university library. Open access resources, both journals and articles in repositories, are already significant and growing rapidly. There are close to 2300 fully open-access peer review journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (320 health sciences titles are included). DOAJ is adding titles at a rate of 1.5 per day. An OAIster search of resources in repositories includes more than 7.6 million items (a rough estimate of the number of articles in repositories, although not all items are full text), and this number will exceed one billion items before the end of 2007. Medical research funders, including the US National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, the UK Medical Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, either have implemented or are considering open access policies. This will drive greater growth in open access resources, particularly in the area of medicine. There are implications and leadership opportunities for librarians in the open access environment.
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Kelso, Ross. "Open access to next generation broadband." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12663/1/12663a.pdf.
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Wireline telecommunications infrastructure in the customer access network or CAN is undergoing a veritable technological and commercial revolution. The paired-copper CAN is being modernised with optical fibre deployed ever closer to customers, culminating soon with fibre-to-the-home networks or some variant thereof. Although bandwidth ceases to be a scarce commodity, the underlying natural monopoly will most likely be strengthened.
National competition policy desires open access to multiple service providers yet commercial pressure calls for closure. This has been the recent experience with the hybrid fibre coaxial networks delivering pay television and Internet access.
This research asks the question: What are the factors that prevent open access to the broadband services of next generation wireline infrastructure? How can these obstacles be overcome? A particular focus is given to non-price considerations which come to the fore due to the unique strategic and technological characteristics of optical fibre in the access network.
The methodological approach involves data gathering via three case studies - that of the Telstra/Foxtel pay television network, the TransACT broadband network and fibre-to-the-home networks in general. Although the ultimate focus is on the research question above, these cases are discussed in a holistic way with consideration of a number of contextual factors. The research also examines the relationship between the concepts of ‘open access’ and ‘network neutrality’, visiting the concept of ‘common carriage’ in doing so.
Several findings are reached that illuminate the field of telecommunications access regulation as applied to infrastructure capable of delivering truly next generation broadband services. Since 1993, our politicians have only paid lip service to the importance of competition and have deferred to the demands of the dominant builder of telecommunications infrastructure. From the viewpoints of end-users and access seekers, the access regime is found to be incapable of dealing with the technical and commercial bottlenecks arising from optical fibre in the CAN.
It is concluded that communication between users should be recognised as the prime purpose of telecommunications and that the regulatory regime should not reward discriminatory practices detracting from the development of a networked information economy. It is also concluded that dominant players should never be rewarded with access holidays which could otherwise entrench market dominance through the creation of new bottlenecks. Access regulation is ill-equipped to cope with optical fibre in the CAN until it also recognizes the strategic potential of such infrastructure.
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Kelso, Douglas Ross. "Open access to next generation broadband." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16612/1/Douglas_Kelso_Thesis.pdf.
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Wireline telecommunications infrastructure in the customer access network or CAN is undergoing a veritable technological and commercial revolution. The paired-copper CAN is being modernised with optical fibre deployed ever closer to customers, culminating soon with fibre-to-the-home networks or some variant thereof. Although bandwidth ceases to be a scarce commodity, the underlying natural monopoly will most likely be strengthened.
National competition policy desires open access to multiple service providers yet commercial pressure calls for closure. This has been the recent experience with the hybrid fibre coaxial networks delivering pay television and Internet access.
This research asks the question: What are the factors that prevent open access to the broadband services of next generation wireline infrastructure? How can these obstacles be overcome? A particular focus is given to non-price considerations which come to the fore due to the unique strategic and technological characteristics of optical fibre in the access network.
The methodological approach involves data gathering via three case studies - that of the Telstra/Foxtel pay television network, the TransACT broadband network and fibre-to-the-home networks in general. Although the ultimate focus is on the research question above, these cases are discussed in a holistic way with consideration of a number of contextual factors. The research also examines the relationship between the concepts of 'open access' and 'network neutrality', visiting the concept of 'common carriage' in doing so.
Several findings are reached that illuminate the field of telecommunications access regulation as applied to infrastructure capable of delivering truly next generation broadband services. Since 1993, our politicians have only paid lip service to the importance of competition and have deferred to the demands of the dominant builder of telecommunications infrastructure. From the viewpoints of end-users and access seekers, the access regime is found to be incapable of dealing with the technical and commercial bottlenecks arising from optical fibre in the CAN.
It is concluded that communication between users should be recognised as the prime purpose of telecommunications and that the regulatory regime should not reward discriminatory practices detracting from the development of a networked information economy. It is also concluded that dominant players should never be rewarded with access holidays which could otherwise entrench market dominance through the creation of new bottlenecks. Access regulation is ill-equipped to cope with optical fibre in the CAN until it also recognizes the strategic potential of such infrastructure.
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Kelso, Douglas Ross. "Open access to next generation broadband." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16612/.
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Wireline telecommunications infrastructure in the customer access network or CAN is undergoing a veritable technological and commercial revolution. The paired-copper CAN is being modernised with optical fibre deployed ever closer to customers, culminating soon with fibre-to-the-home networks or some variant thereof. Although bandwidth ceases to be a scarce commodity, the underlying natural monopoly will most likely be strengthened. National competition policy desires open access to multiple service providers yet commercial pressure calls for closure. This has been the recent experience with the hybrid fibre coaxial networks delivering pay television and Internet access. This research asks the question: What are the factors that prevent open access to the broadband services of next generation wireline infrastructure? How can these obstacles be overcome? A particular focus is given to non-price considerations which come to the fore due to the unique strategic and technological characteristics of optical fibre in the access network. The methodological approach involves data gathering via three case studies - that of the Telstra/Foxtel pay television network, the TransACT broadband network and fibre-to-the-home networks in general. Although the ultimate focus is on the research question above, these cases are discussed in a holistic way with consideration of a number of contextual factors. The research also examines the relationship between the concepts of 'open access' and 'network neutrality', visiting the concept of 'common carriage' in doing so. Several findings are reached that illuminate the field of telecommunications access regulation as applied to infrastructure capable of delivering truly next generation broadband services. Since 1993, our politicians have only paid lip service to the importance of competition and have deferred to the demands of the dominant builder of telecommunications infrastructure. From the viewpoints of end-users and access seekers, the access regime is found to be incapable of dealing with the technical and commercial bottlenecks arising from optical fibre in the CAN. It is concluded that communication between users should be recognised as the prime purpose of telecommunications and that the regulatory regime should not reward discriminatory practices detracting from the development of a networked information economy. It is also concluded that dominant players should never be rewarded with access holidays which could otherwise entrench market dominance through the creation of new bottlenecks. Access regulation is ill-equipped to cope with optical fibre in the CAN until it also recognizes the strategic potential of such infrastructure.
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Esseh, Samuel Kwaku Smith. "The Open Access (Open Journal Systems) paradigm and the production of scholarly journals in developing countries /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2705.
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Glimstedt, Amanda. "Hur publicera efter policyn? Ett antal seniora forskares förhållningssätt till open access efter Vetenskapsrådets open access-policy." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17834.
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Since the 1990’s Open Access has developed into an alternative model for scientific publication. Today an increasing political interest in promoting Open Access is commonly channeled through the implementation of policies by research funders. However, in the scientific community the uptake and acceptance of the model has been of notably different character.This Master’s thesis examines the understanding of and attitudes towards open access among eight senior Swedish researchers and how these have been affected by the implementation of the Swedish Research Council’s Open Access-policy as implemented in 2010. It further asks the question of how researchers’ publishing practices can be understood as shaped by and performed within actor-network configurations. The study is based on interviews with researchers from three academic disciplines. The empirical material has been analyzed through the perspective of actor-network theory.The study finds that the impact of the Swedish Research Council’s policy has been low. Yet, perceived as a floating object, the policy has forced the researchers to adhere to and position themselves in relation to the immanent powers of the policy and, thus, to Open Access both as movement and publishing model. The study also finds that both the traditional model for scientific publishing and the Open Access model can be understood as actor-networks, currently competing for the researchers’ loyalty and involvement in order to secure future dominance. The study finally concludes that in order to fully understand researchers’ practices and attitudes it is necessary to perceive these as shaped in and by extra-social contexts and forces.<br>Program: Masterutbildning: Digitala tjänster - kultur, information & kommunikation
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Bailey, Charles W. "The Spectrum of E-Journal Access Policies: Open to Restricted Access." DigitalKoans, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105875.
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As journal publishing continues to evolve, the access policies of publishers become more differentiated. The open access movement has been an important catalyst for change in this regard, prodding publishers to reexamine their access policies and, in some cases, to move towards new access models. To fully understand where things stand with journal access policies, we need to clarify and name the policies in use. This paper attempts to provide a first-cut model for key journal access policies, adopting the now popular use of colors as a second form of shorthand for identifying the policy types.
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Granholm, Kris. "Open access och spridning : En kvantitativ analys av hur open access-publicerade artiklar citeras och sprids på webben." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210115.
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To publish research articles by the means of open access is to provide them for free to the reader. An increasing number of universities around the world have begun to institute open access policies regarding their researchers academic output, requiring them to primarily publish in open access journals and / or archive their pre- or post- prints in institutional archives. The aim of this this thesis is to explore how the adoption of the open access policy at the Swedish Universi- ty of Agricultural Sciences in 2008 has affected how their researchers publish and if this has had any effect on how their academic output are cited and distributed online. To reach this goal a combination of bibliometric and altmetric methods were used as well as cross-referencing between Scopus, Altmetric.com, Google Scholar and the SHERPA/RoMEO database. The results points towards a mostly open access positive trend with an increase in articles published in jour- nals that allow archiving of both pre- and post-prints. There also seems to be a correlation between these journals and which kind of articles gets the most mentions in social media.
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Porter, Paul A. "Trust Negotiation for Open Database Access Control." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1311.pdf.
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Thümer, Ingrid. "Open Access an der Technischen Universität Chemnitz." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200601865.
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Mit der Sonderausgabe des Newsletters 2/2006 möchte die Universitätsbibliothek ergänzend zum Rundschreiben des Rektors 02/2006 den Angehörigen der TU Chemnitz weitere Informationen zum Thema Open Access (OA) geben. Die Universitätsbibliothek begrüßt den Beschluß von Rektorat und Senat zur Unterstützung von Open Acces an der TU Chemnitz mit dem Wortlaut - Rektorat und Senat der TU Chemnitz fordern die Autoren der Universität nachdrücklich auf, ihre wissenschaftlichen Publikationen als Pre- oder Postprintversion, soweit rechtliche Bedenken der Verlage nicht entgegenstehen, auf dem Publikationsserver MONARCH der TU Chemnitz abzulegen. - Rektorat und Senat ermutigen die Wissenschaftler der TU Chemnitz, in bestehenden Open-Access-Zeitschriften zu publizieren. Gerade die Bibliothek der TU Chemnitz als Dienstleister für Wissenschaftler und Studierende hat die Auswirkungen der Zeitschriftenkrise bitter zu spüren bekommen. Eine drastische Reduzierung des Zeitschriftenbestandes seit Mitte der 90er Jahre ist die Folge. Schon lange beklagen die Wissenschaftler diese Situation. Die Universitätsbibliothek ist der Auffassung, dass langfristig und durch eine weltweite Unterstützung von Open Access diese Entwicklung korrigiert und die Krise im System der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation überwunden werden kann. Die Etablierung des "Prinzips des offenen Zugangs" setzt jedoch die aktive Beteiligung jedes einzelnen Produzenten von wissenschaftlicher Information voraus. Entscheidend für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung der geplanten Open Access Aktivitäten an der TU Chemnitz ist die Akzeptanz unter den Wissenschaftlern und vor allem deren aktive Unterstützung<br>This is a special issue of the library's newsletter. In addition to the rector-circular 02/2006 we would like to give you further information about open access publishing at our university. The library welcomes the joint resolution recently made by the university's rectorate and its senate to support open access publishing at Chemnitz University of Technology. - Rectorate and Senate of Chemnitz University of Technology invite the authors to publish their scientific works as pre- or postprintversion in MONARCH, under attention of the copyright. - Rectorate and Senate encourage the scientists to publish in open access journals. The library as a service provider for scientists and students is confronted with the effects of journal crisis. A dramatically reduction of acquired journal titles is the result. The university library is in the conviction that a long-term and world-wide support of Open Access can corrected and negotiate this development. Therefore is the activity of each individual producer of scientific information important. The acceptance and assistance from our authors is the base for transposition Open Access to the Chemnitz University of Technology
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Blumtritt, Ute. "Finanzierung von Open Access - bisher und heute." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-115883.
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Die Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz bietet seit vielen Jahren verschiedene Services zum Open-Access-Publizieren für die Wissenschaftler der Technischen Universität. Dazu gehören u.a. das digitale Volltextarchiv, das Open Journal System und der Universitätsverlag. Wissenschaftliche Autoren können sowohl auf dem Goldenen als auch auf dem Grünen Weg Open Access publizieren. In diesem Jahr wurde erstmals ein Publikationsfonds für die Veröffentlichung von Open-Access-Artikeln eingerichtet. Es wurden Mittel von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Technischen Universität Chemnitz bereitgestellt. Damit können die Universitätsangehörigen die finanzielle Übernahme von Publikationsgebühren für Open-Access-Artikel bei der Bibliothek beantragen. Sind die Fördervoraussetzungen erfüllt, erfolgt der Zuschlag in der Reihenfolge des Eingangs der Rechnung<br>Since many years the University Library of Chemnitz offers several services regarding open access publication to the scientists of Chemnitz University of Technology. Among others this includes a digital archive, a Journal Management System, and the University Press. It is possible to publish on Golden Way of Open Access as well as on Green Way. This year we offer for the first time a publication funds for the publication of open access articles. The financial resources are provided by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Chemnitz University of Technology. Please apply for financial support at the University Library if you need to pay a publication fee for open access articles. If the criteria for financial support are met an agreement will be made in order of invoices received
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Nolander, Jonas. "Attityder till Open Access vid Umeå universitet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-68418.
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Detta är en utvärdering av hur väl Open Access mottagits av forskare vid humanistisk fakultet vidUmeå universitet. Empirin är samlad med hjälp av kvalitativ intervjumetod, intervjuerna hölls med ettantal forskare vid humanistiska fakulteten. Genom en sammanfattning av hur vetenskapligapublikationer har sett ut och förändrats genom historien går det att se att utvecklingen rör sig mot OpenAccess. Eftersom att det i dagsläget (2012) utformas nationell policy kring Open Access samt attforskningsfinansiärer börjar ställa krav på att forskare ska publicera sina forskningsresultat i OpenAccess – är det intressant att se hur väl Open Access mottagits av forskare eftersom det är de som stårför själva produktionen av materialet. Fokus för publikationsdebatten samt forskningen har varitinriktat på Naturvetenskap/ Medicin, därför är denna utvärdering inriktat på humaniora för att ävendenna aspekt ska täckas.Frågeställningarna handlar om att försöka fånga forskares attityder kring Open Access men gåroundvikligt in på hur deras publiceringsmönster ser ut – eftersom det leder in på vad det är som läggergrunden för ifall de publicerar sig i Open Access eller inte. Några frågor som besvaras: Vad är det somfår en forskare att publicera sig i en viss tidskrift? Har publiceringsformen förändrats under den senastetiden? Hur ser forskare på Open Access? Hur ser de på det traditionella publiceringssystemet?Intervjufrågorna som ställdes till forskare är formulerade efter publikationshistoria, de regelverk somtalar för Open Access, samt kritik som Open Access har fått. Som resultat för utvärderingen går det attsammanställa några aspekter som är viktiga för forskare då de väljer publikationsform: Hur peer reviewgår till, ifall publikationen är poänggivande, att impact factor och prestige är viktigt, samt hur lång tidredaktionsprocessen är innan en färdig publikation publiceras ses som en viktig aspekt så länge somkvalitén upprätthålls. De krav som ställs på forskare från universitetsledning och finansiär, är givetvisavgörande. Om Open Access anpassas till dessa kriterier kommer det att främja dess utveckling
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Webster, Valerie Sneddon. "A study of open access physiotherapy practice." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387853.
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Norris, Michael. "The citation advantage of open access articles." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/4089.
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Four subjects, ecology, applied mathematics, sociology and economics, were selected to assess whether there is a citation advantage between journal articles that have an open access (OA) version on the Internet compared to those articles that are exclusively toll access (TA). In two rounds of data collection, citations were counted using the Web of Science and the OA status of articles was determined by using the search tools OAIster, OpenDOAR, Google and Google Scholar. In the first round a purposive sample of 4633 articles for the four subjects from high impact journals were examined, 2280 (49%) were OA and had a mean citation count of 9.04, whereas the mean for TA articles was 5.76. There was a clear citation advantage for those articles that were OA as opposed to those that were TA. This advantage, however, varied between disciplines, with sociology having the highest citation advantage but the lowest number of OA articles from the sample taken and ecology having the highest individual citation count for OA articles but the smallest citation advantage. Tests of correlation between OA status and a number of variables were generally found to be weak or inconsistent but some associations were significant. Google and Google Scholar were more successful at finding OA articles on the Internet than were OAIster or OpenDOAR. The country of origin of the citing authors for applied maths was found in order to assess whether those authors from poorer countries cited OA articles more frequently than TA articles. While cited to citing article ratios from lower income countries favoured OA articles, overall percentages gave mixed results. The data from the second round confirmed the result for sociology. The second sample for ecology was randomly taken from 82 journals and exhibited a greater OA advantage. For economics, a second purposive sample of articles from 21 mid-range impact journals was taken and also exhibited a greater OA advantage. In an attempt to establish the cause of any citation advantage, logistic regression was used to try to determine whether the bibliographic characteristics of the articles from both rounds could be used to predict OA status. Results from this were generally inconclusive.
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Timmerman, Roger E. "Open Access Fiber to the Home Networking." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3305.pdf.
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Thiel, Jessica. "Open publishing and the value of access." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235896/7/Jessica_Thiel_Thesis.pdf.
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There are fundamental problems with the educational publishing market; textbooks and other education resources cost a significant amount of money to access and are governed by restrictions which limit how they can be accessed, used, and reused. This thesis investigates open publishing in higher education and offers an alternative to how educational materials (particularly textbooks), can sustainably be produced and managed. The research further considers how the broader adoption of open publishing in higher education could positively influence the way publishing in education considers systemic issues such as equity, diversity, and inclusion, and ultimately, provide opportunities to support human development.
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Bürgi, Beatrice. "Open Access an Schweizer Hochschulen : ein praxisorientierter Massnahmenkatalog für Hochschulbibliotheken /." Chur : Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW, Arbeitsbereich Informationswissenschaft, 2007. http://www.iudchur.net/fileadmin/uploads/pdf/csi/CSI_22_B_rgi_FINAL.pdf.
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Willinsky, John. "The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship." Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106529.
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This work is copyrighted by MIT Press and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/>. MIT Press has granted permission to place a copy in dLIST. Readers can also purchase the book from MIT Press, which publishes it (see alternative location for details). Following abstract is from MIT Press: Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past -- from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America -- stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story -- online open access publishing by scholarly journals -- and makes a case for open access as a public good.
A commitment to scholarly work, writes Willinsky, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. In the digital age, that responsibility includes exploring new publishing technologies and economic models to improve access to scholarly work. Wide circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known are inextricably mixed. Open access, argues Willinsky, can benefit both a researcher-author working at the best-equipped lab at a leading research university and a teacher struggling to find resources in an impoverished high school.
Willinsky describes different types of access -- the New England Journal of Medicine, for example, grants open access to issues six months after initial publication, and First Monday forgoes a print edition and makes its contents immediately accessible at no cost. He discusses the contradictions of copyright law, the reading of research, and the economic viability of open access. He also considers broader themes of public access to knowledge, human rights issues, lessons from publishing history, and "epistemological vanities." The debate over open access, writes Willinsky, raises crucial questions about the place of scholarly work in a larger world -- and about the future of knowledge. John Willinsky is Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED and a developer of Open Journals Systems software.
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Jacobson, Karin, and Johanna Roden. "Tillgång till Open Access : En studie av hur svenska högskole- och universitetsbibliotek tillgängliggör Open Access-tidskrifter i ämnet fysik." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19940.
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The aim of this Master thesis was to examine how libraries at Swedish colleges and universities make Open Access journals in physics available to users. We examined if, where, and how the 50 Open Access journals that are listed in the Directory of Open Access (DOAJ) under the heading Physics (General) were made available to the public at 19 Swedish colleges and universities. We also examined possible patterns regarding qualities in the Open Access journals and to what extent the libraries made them available. For this descriptive statistic was used. The selection of library portals that were included in the study were those Swedish colleges and universities that teach physics. The searches that form the basis for the results of the study were performed during the period 30/09/2008 -06/12/2008. The results of the study show that a majority of the libraries made at least 94% of the Open Access-journals available to users, and that this was achieved mainly by journal and/or e-journal lists. A majority of the journal lists were generated by SFX, a system libraries can use to make different e-journal packages available to the public, including the package that consists of the Open Access journals listed by DOAJ. This practice might explain the results of the study. Previous research that focuses on how e-journals are made available to the public show that the consensus regarding these resources previously was that they should be made available through library catalogues. This practice now seems to be changing, probably due to the fact that making e-journals available in journal lists instead of library catalogues demands less economic resources. These were the most consistent tendencies found in the material.
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Möller, Allison Melanie. "The case for open access publishing, with special reference to open access journals and their prospects in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1607.
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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl<br>Open access publishing is an initiative that aims to provide universal, unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials via the Internet. This presents a radically different approach to the dissemination of research articles that has traditionally been controlled by the publishing enterprise that regulates access by means of subscriptions and licences fees levied on users, predominantly academic libraries. In presenting the case for open access publishing, the thesis explored the contemporary research environment, changing modes of knowledge production, the problems associated with the existing academic journal system, and the subsequent growth of the open access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlighted the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly.<br>South Africa
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Warlick, Stefanie E. "Publication Transformation: Why Authors Choose to Publish in Open Access/Free Full-text Journals." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/299.
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In an attempt to identify motivating factors involved in decisions to publish in Open Access (OA) journals, individual interviews with biomedical faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a major research university, were conducted. The interviews focused on faculty identified as early adopters of OA/free full-text publishing. Searches conducted in PubMed and PubMed Central identified faculty from UNC-Chapel Hill who have published works in OA/free full-text journals. The searches targeted authors with multiple OA citations during a specified 18 month period. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the most prolific OA authors. Individual interviews attempted to determine whether the authors were aware they published in OA journals, why they chose to publish in OA journals, what factors influenced their publishing decisions, and their general attitude towards OA publishing models. Interview questions were based on a review of the literature and consultation with a scholarly communication working group. The interview results were analyzed to see whether these faculty members made conscious efforts to publish in OA/free full-text journals, and if so why.
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Low, Marie Rose. "Self defence in open systems : protecting and sharing resources in a distributed open environment." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241623.
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Jackson, Seta. "Deposit of open scholarly publications: examining researcher engagement with UCT’s open access policy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29979.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the reasons for the low deposit levels of peerreviewed, openly-licensed journal articles into the institutional repository, OpenUCT, by researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The deposit of such materials into OpenUCT, which is managed by UCT Libraries, is mandated by the UCT Open Access Policy, which was approved by the University Council in June 2014. The study operates within a post-positivist research paradigm, utilising a predominantly quantitative research approach accompanied by some elements of qualitative inquiry. A survey questionnaire was used as the primary data collection method and distributed to UCT staff on academic conditions of service. A total of 116 responses out of 1,116 were received. The results indicate that almost half of respondents were aware of the existence of the Open Access Policy and its mandate to deposit into the OpenUCT repository and have either done so or intend doing so. Reasons for deposit and non-deposit were investigated, as well as the presence of a relationship between those who resist depositing and one of the theoretical frameworks guiding the study, that of Passive Innovation Resistance (PIR), which may be described as the propensity of an individual to decide against adopting an innovation without having had any prior interaction with it. A mild negative correlation was discovered between UCT researchers motivated to deposit their work into the repository and their levels of PIR, suggesting an inverse relationship between the two – the more motivated the researcher is to deposit, the lower their PIR levels are likely to be. However, due to the absence of a statistically significant p-value, the correlations are weak at best, and further investigation is required. Most significant for the study, however, is the finding that PIR scores for nondepositing researchers are markedly higher than for depositing researchers, suggesting that higher levels of PIR influence the non-engagement of researchers with the repository. A much smaller secondary investigation, in the form of interviews with UCT Libraries staff responsible for managing the OpenUCT repository, was also conducted. Questions used for the interviews were designed to evaluate the development, maintenance, and advocacy of the repository within the UCT community against identified critical success factors for institutional repositories - the other component of the theoretical framework guiding the study. This qualitative component, together with the findings from the survey questionnaire, are used to present a holistic and comprehensive picture of UCT researcher engagement with institutional repositories in general and OpenUCT in particular, and how UCT Libraries has addressed issues and challenges arising from its mandate, especially given its limited resources. Based on the findings of both avenues of inquiry, recommendations are proposed regarding ways in which UCT Libraries may further encourage engagement in its management of the repository as a sustainable, useful, growing enterprise that successfully showcases the research activity of the University.
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Partmann, Michael. "Open Access-Tag 2016 "Aktiv sein – etwas bewegen"." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-213590.
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Das vorliegende Grußwort wurde anlässlich des Open Access-Tages 2016 der Technischen Universität Chemnitz durch den Referenten (Schwerpunkt Forschung und wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs) im Büro des Rektors der TU Chemnitz gehalten. Der Redner ging auf die zunehmende Bedeutung von Open Access ein und hob die diesbezüglichen Services der Universitätsbibliothek hervor<br>The welcome speech was held on Open Access Day 2016 of Technische Universität Chemnitz by Michael Partmann, Assistant (specialized in Research and Junior Researchers) in the Rector’s Office. The speaker mentioned the increasing importance of Open Access and highlighted the relevant services of the University Library
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Susani, Nahid. "On Open Platform for Multi-Access Edge Computing." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.
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The Idea of moving the functions of centralized cloud computing to the edge devices of the network, brought several advantages such as low latency, higher spectral efficiency, supporting machine to machine communication. The idea of decoupling network function from infrastructure well applied for this revolution. Therefor, the concept of software defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization considered as emerging solutions for the future network. With applying NFV in the edge devices, computing services and also using network functions would be possible through using virtual machines provided by NFV. In the first chapter, there are introductions of cloud, Edge cloud computing and SDN/NFV due to the importance of these topics. Containerization of application is an another proposed concept as lightweight virtualization solution which besides NFV can be proper solution for delivering, implementing and running application in the edge network and using advantages. In fact, developer encapsulate applications inside of the containers and containerization will allows to delivery applications across different environments. In second chapter, centralized cloud and Edge Cloud had been explained and it had been moved to introducing kubernetes as Edge cloud orchestrator in third chapter. In this project, Kubernetes has been used as an open source platform for multi access edge computing which works as container cluster orchestrator. Forth chapter has been dedicated to Implementation and Evaluation of the work. Main targets of this real implementation will be extending platform of container cluster from single platform architecture to multi-platform architecture made by different physical infrastructure of AMD64 on Intel and ARM on Raspberry pi using docker containers. The second target of implementation is checking the feasibility of autoscalling number of pods based on CPU utilization of pods, across nodes with heterogeneous platform inside the same cluster.
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Honekamp, Wilfried, Nicoletta Wojtera, and Knut Meissner. "Fee-Free-Open-Access-Journals - Vor- und Nachteile." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-70830.
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In diesem Beitrag werden Publikationsmotivation und -formen sowie die Vor- und Nachteile von Open Access beschrieben und am Beispiel des Fee-Free-Open-Access-Journals Zeitschrift für Nachwuchswissenschaftler erläutert<br>In this paper, publications motivation and forms are described, as well as, the pros and cons of Open Access. They are explained using the fee-free open access journal German Journal of Young Researchers as an example
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