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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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font-family: arial;">December 29th, 2010</span></p>
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alt="stoplight" height="85" width="85"></a>For
our last posting of 2010—and following on the
heels of <a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/index.php/?p=1530">last
week's posting</a> about content farms—we're
going to take a look at a variety of recent news
items related to open access to high-quality
information. We're using a loose definition of
"open access"; the tighter definition of <a
href="http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/brief.htm">Open
Access</a> ("OA") typically refers to scholarly
research articles and includes not just no-cost
access but specific licensing arrangements. Some
academic publishers are moving towards support for
OA scholarly journal articles, and two of the news
items below deal with that business trend. The
other two news items are about other types of
content to which access might typically be
restricted now, but which may someday be freely
available on the Internet. </p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/11/the-economic-case-for-open-access-in-academic-publishing.ars">The
economic case for open access in academic
publishing</a> (Ars Technica/Adam Stevenson)
"Publishers [of academic journals] receive 68 to
75 percent of their revenue from academic
library subscriptions. Corporate subscriptions
account for 15 to 17 percent of revenue. This
revenue goes largely to the first copy costs,
and these costs are the same for both
traditional and open access content. Thus, the
revenue stream is critical for hard copy, online
only, and open access content. Any system that
eliminates the need for subscriptions, like open
access, would therefore force academic
publishers to completely change their business
models."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/12/building-sustainable-open-access-science-texts-and-tools.ars">Demand
growing for open access science texts and
tools</a> (Ars Technica/John Timmer) "Why are
traditional publishers, some of which have had
ambiguous views of open access publishing,
suddenly rolling out free services? Some of it
is obvious self-interest. By making their
content easier to find and adding value to the
experience of reading it, these services can
increase the demand for the publishers' primary
product: subscription journals. The services
also act as a lure to get people browsing the
publishers' sites in the first place."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library">Berkman
Center announces Digital Public Library
planning initiative</a> (Berkman [Harvard]
press release) "Planning activities will be
guided by a Steering Committee of library and
foundation leaders, which promises to announce a
full slate of activities in early 2011. The
Committee plans to bring together
representatives from the educational community,
public and research libraries, cultural
organizations, state and local government,
publishers, authors, and private industry in a
series of meetings and workshops to examine
strategies for improving public access to
comprehensive online resources."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ogr/issuebriefs/access_issue_brief.pdf">Accessibility
& Open Access</a> (ALA Office of
Government Relations Issue Brief, Dec. 2010 [<strong>pdf</strong>])
"The Federal Research Public Access Act [FRPAA]
of 2009 (S. 1373) was introduced in June 2009,
with the House version introduced in April 2010.
According to both bills' language (as they
mirror each other), their purpose is, 'To
provide for Federal agencies to develop public
access policies relating to research conducted
by employees of that agency or from funds
administered by that agency.' [...] Undoubtedly,
such an archive would allow librarians the
ability to better assist library patrons with
their information and research needs as well as
allow direct access by the public."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Timely
Fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">On Monday,
the National Archives released the prototype of a
new <a
href="http://www.archives.gov/research/search/">Online
Public Access</a> search interface for accessing
millions of digitized government records. </div>
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