Smartphones and Tablets Drive Nearly 5 Percent of Digital Traffic in EU5

October 28, 2011

comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview of the mobile and connected device landscape across five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). The data shows cross-platform digital media consumption on the rise in the region, buoyed by the growth in adoption of smartphones, tablets and other non-computer web-enabled devices, collectively termed “connected devices”. In August 2011, these devices drove 4.6 percent of total digital traffic in the EU5, fuelled primarily by the use of smartphones.

“While we have seen the increasing adoption of smartphones in the EU5 contribute to the rapid growth of mobile media consumption, we are also beginning to see tablets and other connected devices play an increasing role,” said Jeremy Copp, comScore vice president for Mobile in Europe. “With more options available for consuming digital media on the go than ever before, many users now access online content from multiple platforms throughout the day. This media fragmentation has made it more important than ever for advertisers and publishers to take a holistic view of audience measurement to effectively reach their audiences.”

Apple iOS Surpasses Symbian in Share of Mobile Phones and Connected Devices in Use
In the three month average period ending in August 2011, 91.4 million mobile subscribers across the EU5 reported using smartphones, up 46 percent from last year. Although Symbian continues to have the largest share of the smartphone market, its audience among all mobile and connected devices in current use was recently surpassed by the Apple iOS audience. The iOS platform (including iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches) currently accounts for 30.5 percent of all mobile and connected devices in use in the EU5 (excluding feature phones and e-readers), driven by the popularity of the iPad and iPod Touch. Symbian ranks second, accounting for 28.7 percent of all devices in use, followed by the Google Android platform at 23.5 percent.

OS Market Share by Audience Installed Base 3 Month Average Ending August 2011 Total EU5 (DE, FR, IT, ES and UK) Mobile Subscribers, Age 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens
Device Platforms	Share (%) of Devices in Use
Apple iOS	30.5%
Symbian	28.7%
Google Android	23.5%
RIM	8.1%
Microsoft	5.5%
Other Platforms	3.7%

A closer look at the composition of devices in use for each platform reveals interesting differences. Symbian’s share of the market is driven exclusively by Symbian smartphones, whereas nearly half of the iOS share is driven by iPads and iPod Touches in use. Meanwhile, tablets account for only 16 percent of the Android platform share.

Apple iOS Drives More Than 60 Percent of Non-Computer Traffic
An analysis of platform market share, as determined by internet traffic coming from browser-based page views, shows the iOS platform driving more than 60 percent of all connected device traffic to significantly lead other platforms. Despite comprising less than a quarter of iOS devices in use, iPads fuelled this strong position accounting for 43 percent of all iOS traffic.

Following iOS, Android ranked second in delivering non-computer traffic with a 20.9 percent share. RIM accounted for 8.5 percent, while Symbian accounted for just 2.7 percent, indicating that Symbian smartphone users were less likely on average to consume digital media on their mobile devices.

OS Market Share by Non-Computer Digital Traffic (Browser-Based Page Views) August 2011 Total EU5 (DE, FR, IT, ES and UK) Source: comScore Device Essentials
Device Platforms	Share (%) of Non-Computer Traffic
Apple iOS	61.1%
Google Android	20.9%
RIM	8.5%
Symbian	2.7%
Other Platforms	6.9%

August 2011 EU5 Mobile Benchmark Data
The table below shows comScore’s August 2011 mobile benchmark data, including a review of mobile consumption behaviours and device penetration for the five EU countries under measurement. These benchmarks are published by comScore to provide the most up-to-date snapshot of the mobile industry. Further information on these benchmarks, and other data included above, can be provided upon request.

Mobile Benchmark Data for the EU5 Market 3 Month Avg. Ending August 2011 Total EU5 (DE, FR, IT, ES and UK), Age 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens
	Reach (%) of Mobile Subscribers
	EU5	UK	France	Germany	Italy	Spain
Sent Text Message	82.4%	90.5%	83.3%	79.1%	79.4%	79.3%
Used Application (excl. pre-installed)	33.5%	43.7%	30.9%	29.8%	29.8%	33.6%
Used Browser	34.0%	45.9%	34.6%	27.8%	29.4%	33.0%
Listened to Music	25.8%	25.4%	23.8%	25.8%	23.6%	32.1%
Accessed Social Networking Site or Blog	22.6%	34.3%	21.1%	16.8%	20.0%	21.6%
Accessed News	17.8%	25.4%	16.6%	15.1%	16.4%	14.9%
Played Games	26.3%	33.3%	15.9%	25.2%	30.0%	27.6%
Used Smartphone	38.9%	45.6%	35.3%	32.2%	39.5%	44.5%

Highwire Press Partners With Temis To Semantically Enrich Publishers’ Content

October 27, 2011

HighWire Press, the industry leader in the provision of high quality hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers around the world and TEMIS, leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, announced today they entered into a strategic technology and business partnership. Under the agreement, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid® software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers. “The best platform for scholarly publishing just got better”, said HighWire’s Managing Director Tom Rump.

End users have become much more sophisticated in their online information requirements and are demanding easier and more efficient ways of locating the most relevant information. Furthermore, publishers need to strengthen and differentiate their value proposition in order to increase customer satisfaction and retention. They are looking for ways to increase the value derived from their content by creating innovative online products targeted at specific professional audiences. Semantic content enrichment has become the strategic means to achieve these objectives.

“Stanford’s HighWire leads the industry in discoverability, leveraging its long relationship with Google”, said HighWire’s Founding Director, John Sack. “This new partnership allows us to increase discoverability inside the platform with richer metadata and outside the platform by connecting to the semantic web. The broad discipline coverage and the complete suite of customization tools offered by Luxid® give HighWire’s publishers the opportunity to access the full scope of the industry’s most advanced semantic toolset. Also, while Luxid® can effectively tag content using taxonomies, it also performs advanced semantic analysis to identify the new discoveries happening on the cutting edge of research, those that our publishers value the most.”

Managing Director, Tom Rump continued, “Luxid® marries well with our new tools for rapid product presentation and content aggregation. They’ll enable publishers using HighWire’s open platform to quickly develop new products and deliver them to market, whether on the web or mobile. It allows us to advance the intellectual and commercial interests of scholarly publishers, by having content reach its full potential and its full audience.”

“HighWire’s open and scalable platform is perfectly poised to fully leverage our semantic content enrichment solution”, said TEMIS’ CEO, Eric Brégand. “The market-leading Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform provides significantly deeper insights into content than taxonomy-only solutions can. By combining it with Highwire’s ePublishing solution, we are extending to the larger STM publishing community the full power of semantics and the highest standards of user experience.”

Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access

October 26, 2011

The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.

Over 8000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.

The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. Henry Oldenburg – Secretary of the Royal Society and first Editor of the publication – ensured that it was “licensed by the council of the society, being first reviewed by some of the members of the same”, thus making it the first ever peer-reviewed journal.

Philosophical Transactions had to overcome early setbacks including plague, the Great Fire of London and even the imprisonment of Oldenburg, but against the odds the publication survived to the present day. Its foundation would eventually be recognised as one of the most pivotal moments of the scientific revolution.

Professor Uta Frith FRS, Chair of the Royal Society library committee, said: “I’m delighted that the Royal Society is continuing to increase access to its wonderful resources by opening up its publishing archives. The release of these papers opens a fascinating window on the history of scientific progress over the last few centuries and will be of interest to anybody who wants to understand how science has evolved since the days of the Royal Society’s foundation.”

Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment. And nestling amongst these illustrious papers, readers willing to delve a little deeper into the archive may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution – including accounts of monstrous calves, grisly tales of students being struck by lightning, and early experiments on to how to cool drinks “without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Niter, and That at Any Time of the Year.”

Henry Oldenburg writes in his introduction to the first edition: “…it is therefore thought fit to employ the Press, as the most proper way to gratify those, whose…delight in the advancement of Learning and profitable Discoveries, doth entitle them to the knowledge of what this Kingdom, or other parts of the World, do, from time to time, afford…”, going on to state that potential contributors are: “…invited and encouraged to search, try, and find out new things, impart their knowledge to one another, and contribute what they can to the Grand design of improving natural knowledge, and perfecting all Philosophical Arts, and Sciences.”

Thomas Huxley FRS wrote in 1870: “If all the books in the world, except the Philosophical Transactions, were to be destroyed, it is safe to say that the foundations of physical science would remain unshaken, and that the vast intellectual progress of the last two centuries would be largely, though incompletely, recorded.”

The move is being made as part of the Royal Society’s ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing. Opening of the archive is being timed to coincide with Open Access Week, and also comes soon after the Royal Society announced its first ever fully open access journal, Open Biology.

New Emerald service bridges gap between academic world and current global events

October 26, 2011

“Research in the News” is a new, free online resource from Emerald Group Publishing, which connects research published in scholarly journals to current global events. Every month, three articles or book chapters are selected from the latest Emerald content to highlight new, groundbreaking and topical research whose impact resonates in the real world. This initiative aims to demonstrate the role that quality-validated research can play in better understanding and processing daily information. To access this service, visit www.emeraldinsight.com/rin/index.htm

“Research in the News” is updated monthly with carefully selected articles and book chapters from Emerald’s extensive portfolio in business, management, and economics, library and information science, as well as social sciences. This month, visitors can read about:

•    The financial crisis and the haphazard pursuit of financial crime – the financial crisis has been something of a turning point in the regulatory response to financial crime around the world.
•    An analysis of tweets in response to the death of Michael Jackson – Grieving resulting from the death of a loved one or someone familiar is a painful process. This study investigates the role of microblogs play by exploring the messages sent on Twitter following the death of Michael Jackson
•    Facebook as an edutainment medium to engage students – Emerging technologies offer an ever expanding variety of means to support and enrich learning environments

“Research in the News” also pays its own tribute to the late Steve Jobs by offering free online access to three articles, previously published in Strategic Direction, which explore his qualities as a CEO and his unique ability to regenerate the Apple brand in the 1990s.

These articles and book chapters are freely accessible for a month until they are replaced by the next selection of topical content. From 1 November, the article selection will look at “Corporate social disclosure in Lybia”, “What can the East and Northeast Asian Communities learn from the EU?”, and “Back to the future: IBM, McDonald’s and Google reinvent themselves”.

Emerald Group Publishing is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. “Research in the News” demonstrates the company’s efforts to publish research which makes a significant contribution to practice, bridging the gap between the scholarly and practitioner worlds. Further information about Emerald Group Publishing and its publishing philosophy can be found at www.emeraldinsight.com/about/media.htm

Jayne Marks Joins Wolters Kluwer Health as Vice President of Publishing

October 26, 2011

Wolters Kluwer Health, announced today the appointment of Jayne Marks as Vice President, Publishing at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals, part of its Medical Research business unit.

In this role, Marks will be responsible for driving LWW’s journal strategy across its portfolio of medical, nursing and allied health journals, managing editorial and production, society acquisition and business development, as well as its continuing education business.

“Jayne’s breadth of accomplishments in developing global society partnerships to grow journal portfolios, her deep knowledge of medical and healthcare specialties, and passion to innovate make her an excellent choice to lead LWW journals and our society partners to their next level of success,” said Karen Abramson, President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. “This is an exciting time in the industry, and with Jayne’s leadership LWW is well-positioned to drive the next frontier in digital publishing.”

Marks is a recognized thought leader through her industry blogging—she directed the Sage Blog for their editors and society members—and active Twitter postings, and is a frequent conference speaker and publishing lecturer. She is on the STM Association board and has chaired the Serials Publishers’ Executive of the Publishers Association.

“This is an exciting time in publishing with so many new ways to deliver and consume content at the point-of-need,” said Marks. “I’m delighted to be part of this talented leadership team at Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. They recognize the needs of health care practitioners and are at the forefront of innovating digital access to journal content when and where a user wants to review the evidence-based literature, stay current on their specialty, and so much more.”

Marks brings more than 30 years of experience in STM publishing to her position at Wolters Kluwer Health. Most recently, she was vice president and editorial director for the Library Information Group at SAGE Publications. In this position, she managed over 350 journals, a reference publishing program, and had responsibility for new online products. Marks has held publishing director positions at Nature Publishing Group and Stockton Press, managing broad journal portfolios and launching new products, including Nature’s Clinical Practice Series. At Macmillan Publishing, she set up a new publishing technology services business in India. Her publishing career began at Butterworth Heinemann where she rose through the company to run journals and books from an early beginning as a copyeditor. Among her most gratifying appointments is Honorary Alderman at her local community after serving as town councilor.

Marks holds a BSc Honors in Environmental Sciences from the University of Sussex.

Lars Bjørnshauge Appointed Interim Director, SPARC Europe

October 26, 2011

Lars Bjørnshauge has been appointed to the role of Interim Director for SPARC Europe, Bas Savenije, Chair of the SPARC Europe Board, announced today. Bjørnshauge, formerly Director of Libraries at Lund University in Sweden and a long-standing member of the SPARC Europe Board, assumed overall management of the 93-member library organization, effective October 19, 2011.

“SPARC Europe is very fortunate to have someone of Bjørnshauge’s caliber step into this leadership role,” Savenije said. He added, “Lars has the unique experience and expertise required to help the organization navigate the challenges facing libraries in the fast-moving scholarly communications realm.”

Bjørnshauge has over twenty years’ experience in the library community. Prior to his decade-long service as Director of Lund Libraries, he held management positions at the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark (DTV) in Lyngby, as well as serving as head of department at the Royal Danish School of Librarianship in Copenhagen.

Well known for championing innovative programs, particularly in the Open Access arena, Lars founded the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and led the team behind it until recently.

“Bjørnshauge’s experience in directing large, international projects will serve him well in his new role with SPARC Europe,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC in North America. “His creativity and ability to innovate will be true assets to the organization.”

Bjørnshauge succeeds Drs. Astrid Van Wesenbeeck, who is taking on a new role as project manager with the National Library of the Netherlands. One of Astrid’s activities will be working as the first-ever Open Access Officer at the Dutch National Library (KB) in The Hague.

According to Heather Joseph, the coalition is currently completing a strategic review of its international efforts. Further news on SPARC global programs is expected in the coming weeks.

Elsevier / CPM Resource Center Expands CPM CarePoints™

October 26, 2011

Elsevier / CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare, announced today the availability of CPM CarePoints Emergency™. The product is a new component of the CPM CarePoints™ collection, a pre-built, implementation-ready solution that provides a framework for evidence-based care and documentation tools across clinical domains.

With more than 125 evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, CPM CarePoints Emergency is organized through utilization of the CPM Framework™ and is designed to integrate evidence-based content into practice in order to support clinical decision-making within an emergency department setting. The solution contains content for the adult and pediatric population, as guidelines range from abdominal pain to upper extremity injury, while content includes information on triage, patient profile, risk screening, primary and secondary clinical assessment and procedure/intervention summaries.

“CarePoints Emergency strategically serves healthcare organizations and professionals as they manage patients and document processes in the emergency department, all of which are necessary to achieve meaningful care goals,” said Diane Hanson, RN, BSM, MM, Executive Vice President and General Manager of CPM. “With this comprehensive solution, healthcare professionals can continue to work towards overall improvement of quality of care, data interoperability and seamless longitudinal care coordination for patients.”

CarePoint Emergency can be integrated with other “CarePoints” within the CPM CarePoints solution –inpatient, pediatrics, obstetrics and critical care – to provide a key benefit of a comprehensive, seamless workflow between departments and care venues. When integrated, the overall solution offers clinical decision support, advancing the use of health information technology, making meaningful the risk screening, planning, recording and tracking of recommended care steps and monitoring a patient’s condition meaningful.

Other key benefits include:

Potential reduction in re-admission rates
Improvement in quality of care and patient safety
Strategic decision making regarding a patient’s admittance
Seamless transition of care and interoperability
Support of standardization and consistency of care between departments

For more information about CPM CarePoints Emergency and CPM CarePoints, including purchasing information, visit http://www.cpmrc.com/solutions/cpm-carepoints/

Springer and Japanese library consortium sign licensing agreement

October 26, 2011

Springer and the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) recently signed a comprehensive agreement for current electronic journal subscriptions and online journal back files on SpringerLink (www.springerlink.com). Springer will provide access to 1,000 journals in the Springer Journal Archives from the first volume published up to 1999. Springer will also provide files to the National Institute of Informatics (NII). All universities in Japan will have access via NII-REO (http://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/?lang=en).

This agreement represents a cooperative milestone that creates a national infrastructure for academic information. Furthermore, with essential support from the NII, Springer and JUSTICE have agreed to reduce annual price increases for the current electronic journal subscriptions in this new framework.

Mr. Koichi Ojiro, Director of the JUSTICE office, said, “The mutual trust we have with Springer allows us to support many university libraries which suffer from information gaps in their infrastructure and we hope that this model agreement will be followed by other STM publishers. Springer is not only a business partner but a real supporter of our work.”

“It is Springer’s mission to make its valuable content easily accessible for as many students and researchers as possible. This obviously applies to its current content but also for the journal back files. By concluding this agreement with Springer as well as with NII and JUSTICE, who are the most important and long-standing partners in Japan, we have taken yet another important step in Japan”, said Peter Coebergh, Springer’s President Corporate Markets, Healthcare & Asia-Pacific Sales.

Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) is a leading global scientific publisher, delivering quality content through innovative information products and services. The company is also a trusted provider of local-language professional publications in Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands. In the science, technology and medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals and more than 7,000 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in roughly 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and more than 5,500 employees. In 2010, it generated annual sales of around EUR 866 million.

Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) is a newly established consortium that merges two former academic consortia in Japan: JANUL, which is the National University consortium with 87 members; and PULC, a private and public university consortium with 408 members.

Nature on iPad and iPhone

October 24, 2011

Nature on iPad and iPhone
Euan Adie (Presented by Howard Ratner)

Via – http://www.stm-assoc.org/

Maney Publishing marks Open Access Week with open content

October 24, 2011

Open Access Week, now in its fifth year, runs from 24-30 October 2011. It is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access. Open Access to information is the free, immediate, online access to scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need.

This is also a great opportunity for Maney and other publishers to discuss and review new directions in scholarly communication.

To coincide with Open Access Week, Maney will be offering open access to all Archaeology & Heritage content from 24 October until 4 November. During this period we will be offering free, immediate access to the results of scholarly research to use and re-use as and when you need via ingenta.

We are interested in finding out your opinion on a variety of aspects of Open Access publishing; if you would like to share your opinion, please complete our survey here. All survey participants will be entered into our prize draw for the opportunity to win free access to a journal of your choice for you/your institution for 12 months.

Maney Publishing understands the changing requirements of customers and has developed a hybrid open access business model. MORE Open Choice was specifically designed with the needs of science, technology and medical research councils in mind. In January 2011, it was extended to cover humanities titles. MORE Open Choice now ensures that Maney authors across all disciplines are offered the opportunity to place their work in the public domain.
The article processing charges during Open Access Week will be reduced for Archaeology and Heritage titles to £300/$480 for three months to encourage more Maney authors to consider whether MORE Open Choice is an appealing option for them.

Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, Business Development Manager at Maney Publishing comments: Like many, we are keen to learn more from our customers so that we adapt and develop to suit their needs. We hope our authors, readers and key intermediaries such as librarians will participate in our surveys and promotions during OA week and thereby provide us with the much needed feedback that we depend on.

Full details of Maneys OA model are available on the website at www.maney.co.uk/moreopenchoice.

TMS and Springer Launch New and Innovative Open Access Journal

October 24, 2011

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and Springer officially announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, “Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation” or “IMMI”, this week at the Materials Science & Technology 2011 Conference & Exhibition (MS&T’11) in Columbus, Ohio, The journal will begin publishing in early 2012. Under the Open Access model, articles published in “IMMI” will be available to the public at no charge, and authors will own the copyright on their articles.

Of interest to metallurgists and engineers in academia and industry, “IMMI” will combine the peer review rigor of scholarly publications with enhanced digital content. Authors will be encouraged to post video, data, models/codes, links to databases, and commentary. Publishing one volume per year, “IMMI” will have a rapid review process, and articles will be published on a continuous basis upon acceptance. Thus, the journal’s capabilities extend beyond the traditional archival journal approach and the normal processing time associated with conventional publications. Additional details are available at IMMI.tms.org.

In 2011, the President of TMS, Garry Warren, spoke about the significant shift happening in science and engineering, particularly in how manufacturers can use computational materials science and engineering to control the DNA of their products. He expressed his excitement for TMS’s partnership with Springer to publish “Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation,” which reflects this interdisciplinary field. The publication is not just a journal, but a comprehensive platform for information exchange that facilitates collaboration and integration. With this in mind, sartorius products is committed to advancing the materials and manufacturing industry by providing innovative technologies and solutions to help researchers and manufacturers succeed in their work.

Alexander Greene of Springer said, “Springer is especially proud to have TMS as its valued partner in this new venture, which will expand the boundaries of the traditional Open Access model.”

Open Access Week 2011 opens October 24

October 23, 2011

Open Access Week, the annual event celebrating the global movement towards Open Access (OA) to research and scholarship, kicks off for the fifth time on Monday, October 24. Coordinated by SPARC and organized by more than 2,000 advocates in countries around the world, the event provides an opportunity to learn about the benefits of Open Access, share new ideas and strategies, and inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as the norm in scholarly communication.

Every year, research funders, academic institutions, libraries research organizations, non-profits, businesses, and others use Open Access Week as a valuable platform to convene community events as well as to announce significant action on Open Access. The Week has served as a launching pad for new open-access publication funds, open-access policies, and papers reporting on the societal and economic benefits of OA.

This year, programs highlighting publishing and rights management choices for faculty authors, use of new media, and opportunities created by re-mixing and re-using scholarly materials are on tap. Open Educational Resources are another key topic, as is open-source technology. Campuses will be presenting a sweeping range of events, from the Harvard University-sponsored “Yana,” an open-source template for scholarly journals to develop mobile applications to the University of Utah event diving into new media, fair use, and pop culture.

Students will once again play a major role, hosting panel discussions, workshops, poster campaigns, Web casts and movie screenings to understand Open Access and its relevance to the everyday student. Event’s such as “SHOW (Share/OpenAccess/Worldwide),” at the university campus in Rijeka, Croatia, will introduce students to Creative Commons licensing, Open Projects, the Open Content movement, the Open Access movement, and the Right to Research Coalition.

Participation in this highly successful event continues to grow. This year, there are over 2,000 individuals in more than 110 countries registered in the Open Access Week social network at openaccessweek.org. Participation remains strong throughout Europe and North America and will be complemented by new activities in regions as diverse as Algeria, Gambia, Iceland, Iraq, and Sudan. The global nature of this event is captured nicely by the interactive Open Access Week member map, available on the Web site.

To help support local programming, SPARC provides a suite of resources, including a video series featuring leading voices in research and digital technology. This year’s feature is Brewster Kahle, founder and Chairman of the Internet Archive. Kahle suggests the time is ripe for Open Access; now that the “plumbing” of the Internet is in place, “We have to move beyond the mainframe model and the subscription or the license model,” he says. “It has to be so that things are… shared widely.” The video may be viewed and downloaded at http://blip.tv/sparc-north-america/sparc-2011-oaweek-guest-brewster-kahle-founder-of-the-internet-archive-5660098.

The full collection of SPARC videos for Open Access Week, including Dr. Harold Varmus, Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, Dr. Cameron Neylon, a biophysicist and open research advocate; Dr. Mona Nemer, professor and vice-president for research at the University of Ottawa; students, librarians, teachers, research funders, and others are available on the openaccessweek.org Web site.

Open Access Week is organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with the generous support of our 2011 sponsors: the Public Library of Science, @mire, and Springer Open. Find activities on your campus, at your institution, or in your region – or join to participate – through the Web site at www.openaccessweek.org.