Nick Sheppard : Weblog

Paying for open access publication charges - RIN guidelines

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:33:47 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/paying-for-open-access-publi

“The Research Information Network and Universities UK have produced a guide (March 2009) to provide advice on paying open access publication charges: that is, fees levied by some journals for the publication of scholarly articles so that they can be made available free of charge to readers, immediately upon publication. The guide also sets out recommendations for universities [...]

Intrallect conference 2009

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:02:03 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/intrallect-conference-2009/

The title of this year’s conference was Open Educational Resources: share, improve, reuse and Wendy and I were invited by Intrallect to talk about the work we have been doing to repurpose intraLibrary as an OA research repository. We travelled through the stunning Northumbrian countryside up to Edinburgh on Wednesday morning so unfortunately we [...]

Hash # from Intrallect conference in Edinburgh

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:46 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/hash-from-intrallect-confere

WiFi problems on Wednesday but plenty of discussion off and on-line today:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23intraconf09

Dawn’s report from Belfast

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:12:11 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/dawns-report-from-belfast/

Report here:
http://streamlinenews.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/belfastmetlos.doc
Also her most recent post on Streamline News, “The Sharing Vision” (poetic title!)
http://streamlinenews.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-sharing-vision/

Archive and Special Collections

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:31:00 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/archive-and-special-collecti

A colleague has recently set up a blog for Archive and Special Collections at Leeds Met:
http://archivepost.wordpress.com/
One particularly interesting area, from my point of view, is work on developing machine-readable lists of the various collections/cataloguing and finding aids. Keith and I have already discussed how we might use the repository and I intend to [...]

Journal Authors’ Rights: Perceptions and Reality

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:36:39 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/journal-authors-rights-perce

Must read this when I get a chance…
http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/JournalAuthorsRights.pdf

Having the craic in Belfast, a busman’s holiday

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:30:19 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/having-the-craic-in-belfast-

With project deadlines looming and two final reports due on JISC’s desk in a matter of weeks, some might consider a visit to our Regional University Network partner in the Emerald Isle to be, well, a bit late in the day. As a RUN partner with whom we enjoy close links, Belfast Met was [...]

Next Generation Technologies in Practice 09

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:50:48 GMT

http://personanews.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/next-generation-technologies

John, Wendy and I have just done a joint presentation, together with Jim Hensman from Planet, on sharing practice and social technologies. The event was Next Generation Technologies in Practice. Our presentation is here:

more about "Social Technology for Sharing Practic…", posted with vodpod

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Publishers allowing the deposition of their published version/PDF in Institutional Repositories

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:46:42 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/publishers-allowing-the-depo

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html
Hallelujah. Let’s hope this is a sign of things to come!

SUETr event in Lincoln

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:16:02 GMT

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/suetr-event-in-lincoln/

Would have liked to have attended this event:
http://uollibraryblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/lincoln-suetr-event-feb-10th
But I didn’t…