Science Commons and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) have recently announced the the release of new online tools to help authors exercise choice in retaining critical rights in their scholarly articles, including the rights to reuse their scholarly articles and to post them in online repositories.

More information is available at:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/07-0517SC.html

BioMed Central institutional membership renewed

The IReL deal with BMC has been renewed. This means that UCD researchers can continue to publish in any of the 170 Open Access journals published by BMC and the "author charges" will not fall to the individual to pay.

Please consult our information on the the website for further information - www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html

Open Access (OA) and scholarly communication & publishing

The Library has recently added some basic information about the Open Access movement in scholarly publishing to its website. This can be viewed at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/about/open_access/

A listing of some of the major repositories and search tools for searching collections of both Open Access journals and repositories is provided at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/e-lib/oasearch.html

A summary of publishers offering an Open Access publication route is provided at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/e-lib/oapublish.html

We would welcome further suggestions for both search tools and OA publishing options which could be added to these listings.