[eIFLoa] new publications about OA

[iryna.kuchma at eifl.net]

highlighting some new publications on OA:

§	the Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing  
(http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org)
OA-related articles (from the Editor's Note):

Kathlin Smith asks the important questions of where digital objects are
kept and who is responsible for them, and begins to answer them, in
Institutional Repositories and E-Journal Archiving: What Are We Learning?
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.107

Peter Suber takes us on a whirlwind tour of the past year in Open Access
happenings in Open Access in 2007. The sheer volume of activity is its own
argument that open access is a growing trend.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.110

Another look at open access raises the question of sustainability, both of
the approach and of the data itself. In Open Access Publishing and the
Emerging Infrastructure for 21st-Century Scholarship, Donald Waters asks,
⌠open access for what and for whom and how can we ensure that there is
sufficient capital for continued innovation in scholarly publishing?■
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.106

§	From the trenches of Open Access: Bora Zivkovic’s Interview with  
Hemai Parthasarathy. Hemai Parthasarathy spent about five years as an  
editor at Nature before joining PLoS where she was the Managing Editor  
of PLoS Biology from its very beginning, through about five years of  
it until just a few months ago.  
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_the_trenches_of_open_acce.php

§	De Castro, Paola and Poltronieri, Elisabetta and Carattoli,  
Alessandra and Granata, Orietta (2008) Educating authors of biomedical  
publications to the benefits of Open Access journals. In Proceedings  
EAHIL workshop 2007, pp. 1-9, Kracow (Poland):  
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00012681/

with best wishes,
Iryna Kuchma
eIFL OA



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