Tag Archives: open access

Academic Publishing Under Scrutiny

In a recent post on Slaw, our colleague Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Librarian, refers to an article in The Guardian – “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist” – by George Monbiot. Mr Monbiot recommends that “governments should refer the academic publishers to their competition watchdogs, and insist that all papers arising from publicly funded research are placed […]

Intellectual Property and Open Access, Monday May 2nd

As part of the Scholarly Communication Series there will be a presentation for faculty and graduate students on Intellectual Property and Open Access. This is a co-presentation of the York University Libraries, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Featured speakers include: Breanne Whitwell, Research Officer in the […]

Open Access Journals Bibliography

Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has issued another useful bibliography in his ongoing series of bibliographies relating to digital scholarship. The latest addition is the Open Access Journals Bibliography. "This bibliography presents selected English-language scholarly works that are useful in understanding open access journals. It does not cover works about e-prints or works that include open […]

International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is an open access information service established in 1994 as an online project of the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The mission of the ISN is to "promote greater knowledge sharing, learning and collaboration" and they work with "the world’s leading think […]

Open Access and IR's in Europe: The PEER Report

Issues related to institutional repositories and the open access of scholarly work continue to gain momentum especially in academic environments in North America. So it's interesting to consider research that falls outside of this usual scope such as the "Baseline Report" recently made available by the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project. […]