PhD Comics today released an animation, “What is Open Access?”, which explains Open Access for Open Access Week.
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ORCID workshop in Barcelona
The RepNet project attended the workshop on author IDs and ORCID held yesterday Sep 6th in Barcelona. The event, which featured presentations by Martin Fenner (ORCID Outreach WG), Amanda Hill (UK Names Project) and Gerry Lawson (NERC) among others, provided a good opportunity for discussing the views of the different stakeholders involved in ORCID implementation. Institutional Repositories were mentioned several times during the event as potentially key elements for ORCID adoption at institutional level.
GrandIR
Pablo de Castro from GrandIR has written a very nice summary of all the happenings in the OA world over the last few weeks. Full disclosure: After coordinating the JISC-funded SONEX Workgroup, Pablo de Castro is now consulting with UKRepNet+.
Simmons College Open Access Directory
If you are looking for more information about Open Access, checkout Simmons College‘s Open Access Directory.
More Commentary on the Finch Report and Gold OA
On the back of the Government and Funder acceptance of the Finch Report, the Time Higher Ed has published a commentary on the possible outcome of embracing the Finch Report. In addition, Adam Tickell has commented as a member of the Finch Committee. Also, Nature has a few articles on: OA and archiving, Open Science and Data Sharing, and Gold OA in the UK.
UK Government and Funders Embraces Finch Report
The UK Business, Innovations, and Skills Minister, David Willetts, embraces the Finch Report on Open Access according to THE. In addition, RCUK released an updated policy on Open Access in light of the Finch report.
There was some reaction from the Scholarly Kitchen, here and here. Also a draft policy from the University of Exeter, here.