Just Published: "Science Dissemination using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access"
Science Dissemination using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access Canessa, Enrique and Zennaro, Marco (Eds.) (2008). Science Dissemination using Open Access: A compendium of selected literature on Open Access. Trieste: ICTP. Can be downloaded from http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/book.html / https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/bitstream/handle/1849/420/SciDissOpenAccess.pdf?s... About the Book: This book aims to guide the scientific community on the requirements of Open Access, and the plethora of low-cost solutions available. A compendium of selected literature on Open Access is presented to increase the awareness of the potential of open publishing in general. Discussions on open publishing via Academic Webcasting are also included. The book also aims to encourage decision makers in academia and research centers to adopt institutional and regional Open Access Journals and Archives to make their own scientific results public and fully searchable on the Internet. Table of Contents: Part 1: Selected Literature Overview Declarations Open Access to Science in Developing Countries Types of Journals Published Getting Professionals Legal Framework Institutional Access Policies and Mandates: NIH Examples Economic Models for Journal Publishing Funding Scientific Open Access Getting Found, Staying Found, Increasing Impact Web 2.0 and Open Access Open Academic Web-casting Part 2: Software EPrints DSpace Self-Archiving FAQ Open Access Archives: Examples An International Open Archive: E-LIS Open Journals System Topaz Many Congratulations to the Editors and Publisher of this useful book. Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anup-jnu.blogspot.com From Chandigarh to Chennai - find friends all over India. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/citygroups/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
participants (1)
-
Puna Das