Videos in honor of Open Access Day

Diane Graves, Librarian from Open Access Videos on Vimeo. Open Access Day was October 14. Openaccessday.org posted several videos testifying to the benefits of open access for scholarship: http://vimeo.com/oaday08 These are a project of Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: sparc.org/ , Public Library of Science: plos.org/ and Students for Free Culture: freeculture.org/

Science Info Without Borders- Worldwidescience.org

Carol Tenopir presents an in-depth review of the web portal, Worldwidescience.org, which provides free federated search access to science databases from government agencies worldwide, soon to include China!

"Founded in 2007 through an agreement between the British Library and OSTI, WorldWideScience.org is modeled after Science.gov, a portal to 100 million pages of science bulletins from 13 U.S. government agencies. Both are built using Deep Web Technologies, a Santa Fe, NM–based company that calls its product Explorit Research Accelerator."

WorldWideScience.org includes government-sponsored science content from more than 50 member countries and 40 international portals, as well as everything covered by Science.gov. With the addition of China as a member in August, the portal, Warnick says, “will soon reach a billion pages.”

Read the complete review here: http://tinyurl.com/4zpy5w