Tag Archives: Open Access

Societies Research Libraries

Networked knowledge; huge, unsettled and messy

David Weinberger was the keynote speaker at Wiley’s recent US Executive Seminar, held at the National Press Club, Washington, DC on May 10, 2013. We caught up with him afterward to ask a few questions. 1.      Your Wikipedia entry makes fascinating reading, David – you have worn many different hats during the course of…

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Alice Meadows By
Director of Society Relations

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Societies Research Libraries

UK Open Access policy and experience ignored

Science Europe has just published its Principles for the Transition to Open Access, which outlines policy in line with Recommendations from the European Commission but very different to the policy now being implemented for Britain by the RCUK (Research Councils UK). Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organizations,…

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Bob Campbell By
Senior Publisher

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Societies Libraries

Library Leaders Outline their Priorities and Challenges

Our Oxford office played host to a dozen European library leaders in mid October as we held a two-day meeting of our newly formed European Customer Advisory Board (CAB). It was a highly informative meeting with lively discussions on a range of topics including the future of library services, Open Access, the digital transformation, and…

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Emily Gillingham By
Director of Library Relations

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Societies Research

History Journals Take On the Research Councils UK

A recent statement by the editors of 21 history journals,including several published by Wiley Blackwell or our society partners, states that although they will comply with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) requirement to offer authors a gold (article publication charge) option, their green (unfunded) policy will require an embargo period of 36 months, rather than the…

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Alice Meadows By
Director of Society Relations

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Societies Research

OnlineOpen Orders are On the Up

OnlineOpen, Wiley’s hybrid open access model, enables authors to make their article fully open in a subscription journal, thus providing choice for authors to publish open access in the journal of their preference. With OnlineOpen, the author, their funding agency, or their institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers immediately on…

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Associate Director, Open Access Marketing, Life Sciences

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Societies Research

Resources on the Open Access Debate

Much of the current debate is focused on the UK and how universities are to implement the policy of the Research Councils UK  As can be seen from the link more detail on the block grants for payment of APCs (Article Publication Charges) was released on 8th November, including a spreadsheet showing how much each research…

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Bob Campbell By
Senior Publisher

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Societies

Journal Publishing in a Fast-Changing Time

As part of our ongoing program of events for journal editors and society officers, we recently held an editorial seminar at the Society of Chemical Industry’s headquarters in London on the topic of Journal Publishing in a Fast-Changing Time. The program was put together by a team of Wiley Blackwell colleagues with input from some…

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Alice Meadows By
Director of Society Relations

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Societies Libraries

An Interview with Dr. Elisabeth Niggemann, Director General of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Dr. Elisabeth Niggemann has been Director General of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB- German National Library), with locations in Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, since 1999. Her library career started in 1987 at the German Central Library for Medicine as the Head of the Acquisitions Department, and in 1994 she became Director of Düsseldorf University and…

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Eva Wille By
Vice President & Executive Director, Global Chemistry

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