On the ROAD to Open Access (and Charleston) | Not Dead Yet

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-10-26

Summary:

"I want to give a big shout-out to wonderful Katina Strauch for alerting me to the ROAD Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. They have a four-fold stated purpose: to provide a single access point to different types of online scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available. to provide information about the quality and prominence of OA resources, or at least the criteria they meet, by indicating by what services or journal indicators they are covered as such, and once the coverage of ROAD is developed, to give an overview of the Open Access scholarly production worldwide (for statistics purposes for instance) to demonstrate new ways of using the ISSN for compiling information from various sources.  In a phone conversation the other day, Katina mentioned the ROAD Directory, and now I’m finding it tremendously useful as I work on a blog called the Magazines For Libraries™ Updatea free online resource featuring reviews of newer titles that aren’t in the printed Magazines for Libraries™ volume, especially focusing on open access and niche-subject journals (if you’d like to know a little more about it just take a look at this piece in Against the Grain). The blog is aimed at expanding on the work begun bythe remarkable Bill Katz back in 1969 when he first started Magazines for Libraries™ ..."

Link:

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/10/opinion/not-dead-yet/on-the-road-to-open-access-and-charleston-not-dead-yet/#_

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.road oa.unesco oa.issn oa.libraries oa.librarians

Date tagged:

10/26/2014, 18:32

Date published:

10/26/2014, 14:32