ERCIM News - special European theme - Open Access

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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/

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)