[LIS-Forum] Library Access to Scholarship

[Sukhdev Singh]

I was going through a section of "Cites & Insights" 6, Number 7: May
2006 <http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ6i7.pdf > entitled Library Access
to Scholarship <http://cites.boisestate.edu/v6i7e.htm> .

Apart from others things it highlights:

--OA Librarian, oalibrarian.blogspot.com, "Open Access resources for librarians

--The impact of open access on library and information science (a
research project). It's a project proposal from Cheryl Knott Malone
and Anita Coleman (both at the University of Arizona's School of
Information Resources and Library Science).

--College & Research Libraries will be freely available after a
six-month embargo

--A group of librarians, college administrators, and scholars issued a
call to action to preserve online scholarly journals, noting that such
journals "could vanish into oblivion should publishers go out of
business or face other calamities."

--On April 10, the Public Access Working Group (an advisory panel to
NIH) reaffirmed its support for strengthening of the NIH public access
policy, calling for the policy to be mandatory and for the maximum
embargo to be six months.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
http://openmed.nic.in