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Hello all,<br>
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Today's missive from the Open Access Week celebrations at Cambridge.<br>
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<b>Unlocking Theses project</b><br>
The Office of Scholarly Communications is making a concerted effort
to build on the 860+ open access theses we already hold in the
Apollo repository. The Library holds over 1200 scanned theses that
have been redigitised from the printed copy in the Library as a
result of a research request for a copy. Earlier this year we
embarked on a project to 'unlock' these theses. We have run OCR
across all of the scans and uploaded the theses into a restricted
thesis collection. We also spent some time negotiating the intricate
issues related to obtaining contact information for our alumni. Last
month we began contacting the authors to ask permission to make the
theses openly available. Our initial pilots are indicating we will
have a very positive response to this project, with over 50% of the
first group contacted giving us permission within a fortnight. The
project should run through the Christmas break and we hope to be
able to provide final numbers about this initiative early in 2016.<br>
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<b>Blog</b><b> - Where to from here? Open Access in Five Years</b><br>
Today's blog is a peice by Dr Arthu Smith looking to the future.<br>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color:
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-weight: 400;">Academic publishing is not what
it used to be. Open access has exploded on the scene and
challenged the established publishing model that has remained
largely unchanged for 350 years. However, for those of us
working in scholarly communications, the pace of change feels at
times frustratingly slow, with constant roadblocks along the
way. Navigating the policy landscape provided by universities,
funders and publishers can be maddening, yet we need to remain
mindful of how far we have come in a relatively short time.
There is no sign that open access is losing momentum, so it’s
perhaps instructive to consider the direction we want open
access to take over the next five years, based upon the
experiences of the past. </snip><br>
</span></p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=366">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=366</a> <br>
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<b>Campaign</b><br>
<span lang="EN-US">The League of European Universities (LERU) has
launched the <a
href="http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/christmas-is-over-research-funding-should-go-to-research-not-to-publishers/">#Christmasisover
campaign</a> (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/christmas-is-over-research-funding-should-go-to-research-not-to-publishers/">http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/christmas-is-over-research-funding-should-go-to-research-not-to-publishers/</a>)
with an online petition to sign the <b><a
href="http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/extra/signtheLERUstatement/"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.leru.org" claiming to be</b></font> LERU
Statement on OA
(http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/extra/signtheLERUstatement/)</a>.
</b>Individuals and organisations are encouraged to sign the
statement. Make this your action for Open Access Week!<b><br>
</b></span><br>
Enjoy!<br>
<br>
Danny
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head of Scholarly Communications
Cambridge University Library
West Road, Cambridge CB39DR
P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437
M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a>
T: @dannykay68
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939</pre>
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