Open Access the key to ivory towers

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-11-21

Summary:

"It is one of the greatest challenges so far to the claim that academics live in ivory towers. Peer-reviewed research from academics at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) will soon be available to the general public, free of charge, on iTunes, the so-called jukebox software used to download music, film and book files. The change pitches academic research a long way from the traditional 12 to 18-month publication process that locks up research papers in expensive journals that are only available to the academic institutions that can afford to pay for them. The innovation, which will see academically peer-reviewed material in video form and video with images and text, placed in one downloadable container, is part of a much longer, world-wide trend known as open access.  Open Access Week, a global event now in its sixth year, was held last month, to encourage academics to accept the concept as the standard in scholarship and research. But no one is doing it quite like UTS, says the Broadway-based institution’s University Librarian, Mal Booth ..."

Link:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/open-access-the-key-to-ivory-towers-20131114-2xiiw.html

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.comment oa.mandates oa.green oa.australia oa.ir oa.nhmrc oa.arc oa.u.technology_sydney oa.u.new_south_wales oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals

Date tagged:

11/21/2013, 09:11

Date published:

11/21/2013, 04:11