ERCIM News - special European theme - Open Access

[Stevan Harnad]

    ** apologies for cross-posting **

ERCIM European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
    http://www.ercim.org/
will publish in January a special issue of ERCIM News that goes
far beyond Informatics and Mathematics to Open Access (OA) to all
research.

The President of ERCIM, Professor Keith Jeffery
    http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw60/keith.html
Director of IT for CCLRC, is also on the Research Councils UK
committee that is drafting RCUK's OA policy:
    http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp

The ERCIM special issue contains Professor Jeffery's overview of OA,
plus clear overviews of the Green and Gold Route to OA (OA self-archiving
and OA publishing) and the benefits OA brings to European and worldwide
research, along with the ERCIM Statement on OA. An overview of CC licenses
and of the role of the Worldwide Web Consortium in OA is followed by the
closing article on Netherlands' highly successful "Cream of Science"
project for showcasing its research output with the help of the OAI
protocol.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:31:46 -0000
From: "Jeffery, KG (Keith)" <K.G.Jeffery at rl.ac.uk>

ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) has
a quarterly newsletter which is very widely read and cited.  The January
2006 issue will have a special section on Open Access.  Information on
ERCIM is at
    http://www.ercim.org/
The newsletter in e-form (free) will appear on this page (left side) in
early January.  Paper copies (free) can be ordered using the top-line
options at
    http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw63/

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Contents:

        Open Access:
        An Introduction
        by Keith G Jeffery (ERCIM, CCLRC)

        Publish or Perish - Self-Archive to Flourish:
        The Green Route to Open Access
        by Stevan Harnad (Southampton, UQaM)

        The Golden Route to Open Access
        by Jan Velterop (Springer)

        ERCIM Statement on Open Access

        Managing Licenses
        in an Open Access Community
        by Renato Iannella (NICTA)

        W3C at the Forefront of Open Access
        by Rigo Wenning (W3C)

        Cream of Science
        by Wouter Mettrop (CWI)