News Issue 11

Upcoming Events

• The fourth Open Archive Initiative workshop (OAI4): CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, will be held at CERN from 20 to 22 October 2005.
  To read more: http://www.cern.ch/oai4
  

• The fourth International Conference on Open Access within the tradition of the Berlin Declaration will be in Golm, Germany from 5 to 7 October 2005: http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/

• The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will take place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005.
  To read all the latest news about the WSIS: http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/eflash/latest.html
  

News

• On the 23rd March 2005, CERN's Executive Board approved the new CERN policy on Open Access which confirms CERN's commitment to open access to scientific information.
  See: http://library.cern.ch/cern_publications/CERN_exec_board_23.03.05.html
  
• Have a look at the article written by Ken Peach "Join the open-access revolution" published in the CERN courier, June 2005: http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/45/5/3
  

• The group of Berlin Declaration signatories continued to be a leading voice in the OA movement with a widely reported and important recommendation agreed at the 3rd meeting in Southampton in February/March 2005: http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html
  Look out for news of the fourth meeting which will be in Golm, Germany in October: http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/
  

• The 2005 European Library Automation Group seminar took place at CERN from 1 to 3 June. This seminar was completely devoted to Open Access.
  To read more: http://elag2005.web.cern.ch/elag2005/
  

• Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) has announced that its books publishing programme has been acquired by the Taylor & Francis Group .
  To read more: http://www.iop.org/news/942

• American Physical Society is launching a new Open Access journal: Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
  See: http://prst-per.aps.org/

• Springer is launching the "Springer Online Journals Archives" which will offer approximately 1,200 journals starting in 2005 by adding all content formerly published by Kluwer, as well as all content from Volume I, Issue 1 where available, from both the former Springer-Verlag and Kluwer.
  Springer Online Journal Archives will be offered in subject area packages.
  To read more: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-117-2-126299-0,00.html

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