How extreme climate occurred?

The arctic sea ice reached its winter maximum for the year on March 15, and became the sixth lowest maximum on record but lower than average. During the time, weird, chilly spring weather in the northern hemisphere leads people to connect with the Arctic changes.

Do the Arctic changes associate with climate change? Scientists monitoring the ice as well as those trying to figure out how it affects the rest of the planet give an answer that is both positive and negative.

This time cracking of the sea ice has researchers concerned. "There is cracking every year when the ice is pushed by the winds and currents," said Walter Meier, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "But this was particularly extreme. Qualitatively, this seems like the biggest."

A number of large cracks came up enforced by powerful winter storms. They are hundreds of meters wide, and stretched all across the Arctic.

The cracks quickly emerge and quickly froze shut, but that refrozen ice would have to be thinner than the ice that cracked, which itself was just first-year ice that started building up 4-5 months before.

All these ice changes do, indeed, have weather effects well beyond the range of polar bears.

Math and Eng used in Medicine

Some student researchers including two undergraduates in the Viterbi School of Engineering combine math and medicine knowledge in tracking the spread of lung cancer in the human body.

These student researchers participate in a project started four years ago by researchers aiming to use mathematical models and algorithms created by Viterbi analyze the science and medicine behind cancer cell growth.

The work team led by Viterbi Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Paul Newton, hope to build computational and mathematical models to design clinical trials and inform doctors of different kinds of treatment scenarios.

The study was published in the journal Cancer Research by researchers from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC.

This suggests interdiscipline brings great opportunities in making breakthroughs in scientific research. Oalib (http:www.oalib.com) holds the belief that easy access to scientific research materials brings great power.

The study analyzed records of 3,827 deaths of untreated cancer patients between 1914 and 1943, including 163 lung cancer patients. Google’s PageRank algorithm which predicts which websites are most likely to contain pertinent information by examining the density of links between sites and Viterbi Algorithm invented by Andrew Viterbi in 1966, which predicts the most likely path of digital wireless signals through a cellphone network, were applied in the program.

New development directions for libraries

Around the world, university libraries mainly do variable business of purchasing books, licensing access to academic journals and providing study spaces and research training for students. In the digital age, they are racing to reinvent themselves to keep up with rapid transformations. They are increasingly help teachers to disseminate courses and students to learn themselves. Now they are about to prepare themselves to help them do research. Working scientist can browse scientific literature online without leaving their desks. Libraries intend to play an active role in the research activities, which is likely to alter the way scientists conduct and publish their work. Libraries are looking to assist with all stages of research, by offering guidance and tools for collecting, exploring, visualizing, labeling and sharing data.



Last month the Barack Obama's administration ordered granting agencies to ensure that the public can access publications and data generated by federally funded research. “This is going to have significant repercussions and result in much greater appreciation and support for the need to preserve data and make it available for scientific use,” says William Michener, an information scientist at the University of New Mexico libraries in Albuquerque. Sharing, processing, managing, data and information becomes clear for libraries. Oalib (http://www.oalib.com) is a first tryout for scientists to share their research outputs online.

Imaging global warming 's arrival

Although there are controversial arguments about the reality of global warming, the process of global warming will eventually transform both the physical and the institutional operating conditions of human societies in some combination yet to be determined.

It is reliably certain that carbon dioxide is currently being added to the atmosphere at a rate at least 10 times greater than any that occurred in the entire 65 million-year climate record prior to the rise of human societies. The earth’s ecosystem will have to balance in some manner with resulting thermal adding to it.

“The consequences will assuredly be large, presumably unprecedentedly large. The timing, magnitude, location and even basic character of those consequences cannot be predicted in reliable detail, but climate disruptions can be expected to occur with increasing severity and frequency for at least the next half century.” posted in some news.

At some point during that time, the ultimate viabilities of climate are likely to become evident and lead to motivate a truly serious effort to alter energy generation and consumption on a global scale. A research from Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland presumes at the point that nuclear power is likely to replace the power generating greenhouse gas in order to hold greenhouse gas concentrations to a level, which may result international collaboration.(Sometimes read scientific materials through oalib)

Where does our solar system ends?

It is a little crazy not to know where we are. It is the same feeling produced as one is making a journey without a map or a GPS, having no idea whether to get back or go on. We often see people freaked out when Apple dropped Google Maps. So it is pity the scientists tracking the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

A big cosmic battle caused after the American Geophysical Union (AGU) issued a surprise news about Voyager with the stunning headline: “ Voyager 1 has left the solar system, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate,”.(visit oalib to search more research papers about cosmic) If it is real, it is the first human-built object to cross that remarkable threshold. But National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) know something about the twin Voyager spacecraft who built them, launched them and controls them, said publicly that it did not actually break away from solar system. The AGU, to its credit, responded within minutes, with a modestly changed headline:” CORRECTED — Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate” and with more details. “It’s a matter of interpretation,” says Peter Weiss, AGU public-information manager. “We were trying to write it in a way that people would understand, so maybe we did get a little overzealous in our headline writing.”

Could Google Glass be on sale?

Some days ago google has announced a new creation, Google Glass, which will be sometime before on sale. When it is expected by mass in an earnest mood, a lawmaker proposed a ban on driving with the augmented reality glasses.

Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display developed by Google with the aim to produce mass-market ubiquitous computer. Google Glass has the ability to take photos and record 720p HD video. While video is recording, a recording light is displayed above the eye, which is unnoticeable to the wearer. 

Like smart phones, Google Glass may make another surprise. But West Virginia Legislature Republican Gary G. Howell recently proposed a bill that prohibits “using a wearable computer with head-mounted display” while driving a vehicle. This would align with current U.S. laws that make it illegal to text or use a smart phone while driving without using a hands-free device.

Gary said: “It is mostly the young that are the tech-savvy that try new things. They are also our most vulnerable and underskilled drivers. We heard of many crashes caused by texting and driving, most involving our youngest drivers. I see the Google Glass as an extension”.

A newly published article from the Traffic Injury Prevention Journal suggests that texting while driving could be over a quarter more dangerous than drink-driving. (try to search through oalib for more scientific materials: www.oalib.com)

Three things needed to know to get truly accessible right

Open access publishing is making research literature freely available to the public. But open access is not the final step to true accessibility of it. Someone explains three things from experience with information needed to know to get truly accessible right. These things are what oalib aims to get realized.

Bring the information to the people: Information can be frequently sent to target users according to users’ preferences for information in addition to providing to help them search for information themselves. That way, libraries, publishers, search engine producers, information producers and collectors, as well as other information repositories can act both as a progressive role and as a friendly cooperator.

Make information 'practically' open: While information may be legally and technically open, it also benefits greatly from also being 'practically' open. This means providing basic tools to digest information and adding appropriate context. Sometimes this means using mobile technology, social media, and translation into local languages and settings..

Don't ignore the political elements of promoting knowledge: In order to translate information into knowledge and knowledge into power, the process needs to be political to some extent. Information access is one element of a broader process to redistribute and share power and global resources in a way that is socially just.

Timeline of RCUK’s open access policy changes

March 2012: draft policy issued for comment. From it, I read the policy was a big progress for open access to research papers . It stated that The Government’s Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth has tasked the Research Councils with ensuring that their current requirements for Open Access are met. “It is anticipated that the revised policy will be adopted in summer 2012″.

July 2012: actual policy released. It announced that from April 2013, science papers must be made free to access within six months of publication if they come from work paid for by one of the United Kingdom’s seven government-funded grant agencies, the research councils, which together spend about £2.8 billion each year on research.

November 2012: RCUK stated that Gold OA is the preferred mechanism of choice to realise open access for outputs that they have funded and have announced the award of block grants to eligible institutions to achieve this aim.

January 2013: RCUK announced that they “will not enforce” embargo periods.

February 2013: The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has criticised Research Councils UK’s (RCUK) for failures in its communication of its open access policy. The report says the previous lack of clarity about RCUK’s policy and guidance was ‘unacceptable’. As a response RCUK clarified that it would gradually phase in its open access policy over a five year implementation phase, and recommend that RCUK update its policy guidance and all its communications to reflect the anticipated "journey to compliance" and its flexibility over embargo periods.(From online information)

Turning information into knowledge and power

The debate over “open access” to scientific research results has been for years but there is no agreement. After all, free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed papers is not the only thing that involved the argument.

In the information age, information produces creativity which impulse the world rolling to the future. The producers of scientific research information are scientists and researchers and the consumers should be public not limited to scientific and research community. So the exchange of information becomes important.

Last year European Commission required immediately open access to all publications stem from public-funded research. In February, the White House announced ordering federal agencies that fund more than $100 million in research to create a mechanism to make published results free a year after publication.

If we consider turning information into knowledge, open access is just one step of the issue. There are a lot knots between the production of information and power it produces. The information that is intelligent and understandable should take into consideration.

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The open access move follows

Not being open access to taxpayer-funded information is the point accused by critics of built academic and research communities. With appealing to open access to research results and scholarly publications digitization, European Commission first moved to require open access to academic publications from public funded research. This was a big victory for open access supporters and sent a signal of open access prior to the present scientific publication model.

EU digital chief Neelie Kroes announced that the union will "require open access to all publications stemming from EU-funded research." Kroes said that "taxpayers who are paying for that research will want to see something back," and that "all in all, we are putting openness at the heart of EU research and innovation funding."

Not long after that, the US and Australia announced to open up access to scientific funding though critics argue the US has not gone far enough. In February, the White House issued a requirement that federal agencies give $100 million or more a year in research funding to make the scientific papers they fund "freely available to the public within one year of publication. For the time being, most scientific works cost not a small amount expenditure to be available through subscription journals and websites.

A few days ago, Commissioner Kroes also launched the Research Data Alliance: a cooperative model intended to help gather and share scientific data around the world. "Our society and our future are best served through science that is faster, better, and more open," Kroes said. "We are propelled by the same, inevitable currents of change. And I look forward to continuing to work on this with the US, Australia, and others."

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How to write clearly

Writing is a thing that is just more frequent than before on the information age. There are new forms of exchange, such as blogs, email, forum, messages all of which need writing. More important, when you write an email, proposal, or report, writing becomes to make your points understood. Here are three ways to make your ideas understood clearly:

1. Consider in the perspective of readers. Put yourself in the reader’s shoes to decide what to write and how to write. Better yet, ask a person to immediate response to your draft after a quick read-through.

2. Keep your language simple and neat. If you can use less words to put down your views, then don’t use other. Maintain to form a sentence with 20 words or less. With every one, ask yourself whether you can say it more briefly.

3. Show, don’t tell. Be specific enough that readers draw their own conclusions which you hope and support. Keep your content in the order that readers are costomed to.

Stanford Libraries award for research libraries

Stanford Libraries award aims to recognize outstanding innovation in the world’s research libraries anywhere in the world. The first winners of the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries are the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) and the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library in Spain.

The Stanford Libraries' new annual award celebrates groundbreaking programs, projects and services for research libraries anywhere in the world.

About two dozen proposals competed for the modest cash prize of $5,000, underwritten by Logitech, that went to each of the winning institutions.

It is said that research libraries as a community are doing great things, embracing – sanely – the digital age, and immeasurably enriching the research environment for scholarship and study.

The library meets the new challenges of digital libraries with a more open, user-oriented design guided by service-oriented architecture and relying on open-source development. Oalib is a new search engine for open access research articles. （see www.oalib.com）

The new award commends New York Public Library Labs for its role as an internal start-up, with an impressively wide range of projects that apply digital technology to collections, services and the institution's mission in imaginative and effective ways.(From:http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/february/libraries-award-prizes-022613.html)

Online learning

Campus administrators around the world had been buzzing for months about massive open online courses, or MOOCs: Internet-based teaching programmes designed to handle thousands of students simultaneously, in part using the tactics of social-networking websites. To supplement video lectures, much of the learning comes from online comments, questions and discussions. Participants even mark one another's tests.

MOOCs had exploded into the academic consciousness in summer 2011, when a free artificial-intelligence course offered by Stanford University in California attracted 160,000 students from around the world — 23,000 of whom finished it. Now, Coursera in Mountain View, California — one of the three researcher-led start-up companies actively developing MOOCs — was inviting the University of Maryland to submit up to five courses for broadcast on its software platform. Loh wanted in. “He was very clear,” says Uriagereka. “We needed to be a part of this.”

Similar conversations have been taking place at major universities around the world, as dozens — 74, at the last count — rush to sign up. Science, engineering and technology courses have been in the vanguard of the movement, but offerings in management, humanities and the arts are growing in popularity (see 'MOOCs rising'). “In 25 years of observing higher education, I've never seen anything move this fast,” says Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist at Stanford and one of the leaders of an ongoing, campus-wide discussion series known as Education's Digital Future.

Ng a professor, following a path blazed by the open-source software movement, and by earlier open-source education initiatives, started a project to post online free lecture videos and handouts for ten of Stanford's most popular engineering courses. His approach was fairly crude, he admits: just record the lectures, put them online and hope for the best. But to his astonishment, strangers started coming up to him and saying, “Are you Professor Ng? I've been taking machine learning with you!” He began to grasp how far online courses could reach, and started working on a scaled-up version of his system. “When one professor can teach 50,000 people,” he says, “it alters the economics of education.”

More resources will be available online which we can't really get otherwise. Oalib (www.oalib.com) is also one of such things having people get more and conveniently.

Aaron Swartz to be awarded by American Library Association

The Internet activist Aaron Swartz will be awarded the American Library Association’s James Madison Award on Friday as part of the group’s Freedom of Information Day event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Swartz, who committed suicide in January in the midst of a federal prosecution for document theft, will be honored for his efforts to promote open access to research and government information, according to the group’s president, Maureen Sullivan.

“Aaron had a deep commitment in all his work to support open access, which is a core value of libraries and so many people who use them,” Ms. Sullivan said, adding: “At times, it was beyond a passion.”

As a teenager, Mr. Swartz designed code for the Creative Commons licensing system, helped to develop the RSS Web feed technology, and helped found the social news Web site Reddit. In 2008, he created a computer programthat enabled free access to federal judicial documents. He is also the founder of Demand Progress, a group that promotes online social justice campaigns. From: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/aaron-swartz-to-be-honored-by-library-association/

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Oalib is useful to the academic community

The oalib makes it possible to find, view, and refer research papers from around the world on one site, in one simple way. These collections of papers are from areas include, but not limited to Humanities, Social sciences, Natural sciences, Formal sciences, Professions and Applied sciences.

Items on the oalib may easily be browsed by titles, author, keywords, abstract in English. Special feature is that results are from most famous repositories, publishers, universities, institutions, and other websites around the world.

The main features of the oalib are :

Search needed academic articles through one main engine: Oalib lays one main page of neat outlay as a search entry on its main web page: http://www.oalib.net. You can search with your own options by marking up the responding boxes.

Full texts of 260,000 scholar articles are free available: Now oalib has collected more than 260,000 published or unpublished scholar articles in English. These articles are from broad disciplines: literature, law, history, geography, sociology, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other interdisciplines.

All literature information is presented in standard order: Titles and Full texts are striking and part of common information arranged by items. You can find the similar information in the analogical place on the page.

Provide advanced developments in all scientific areas: Oalib is ceaselessly adding open access articles recently available online whether they are published or pre-versions to its collection.

Quantity of articles rises in a high rate: The quantity of the collection increases in a fast speed on the base of good relationship with OA publishers and institutions which reserve large research articles and creative techniques.

Oalib bring zero cost to view research full text articles

Price-fixing on the part of the publishing industry has made an impact on colleges and universities across the country. 

Some professors and libraries complain about high costs of viewing research papers on threefold. First, publishers owning academic journals charge too much for its products. Second, that its practice of “bundling” journals forces libraries which wish to subscribe to a particular publication to buy it as part of a set that includes several others they may not want. And third, that it supports legislation such as the Research Works Act, a bill now before America's Congress that would forbid the government requiring that free access be given to taxpayer-funded research. 

But despite the enthusiasm for publishing online, there are reasons for the continued dominance of traditional publishers. ArXiv's papers, though subject to merciless post-publication commentary, are not formally peer-reviewed before they are posted. Their quality is thus rather uneven. PLoS relies partly on donations, but also charges publication fees of up to $2,900 per paper. These must be paid by the authors, a significant expense for cash-strapped university departments. And there is also a lingering prejudice against electronic-only publishing. Web-based alternatives often seem less respectable than their dead-tree counterparts.

Oalib let users to view full text of research papers by clicking online without paying fees. Oalib offers high quality and most updated free academic thesis, open access resource covering various fields. It also provides Comprehensive Research Tool. www.oalib.com

Commercial publishers have begun to experiment with open-access ideas, such as charging authors for publication rather than readers for reading. But if the boycott continues to grow, things could become more urgent. After all, publishers need academics more than academics need publishers. And incumbents often look invulnerable until they suddenly fall. Beware, then, the Academic spring.

Oalib provides better access to scholarly research papers

Almost 270,000 scientific research articles of open access all across the world are now available through oalib. The amount will be increasing every day at a high rate.

All these articles come from authoritative from top famous publishers and databases to meet the demand of scholars in every field, such as BioMed central, PubMed central, Plos.

Oalib provides better access to scholarly research papers basing on the following points

To provide a simple search tool for all open access posted online without any restriction.

Easy to have access of these collections by clicking direct links to the articles. 

All publication information about the included articles collections is available below titles of searching results. 

Distinct outlay of retrieving items with variable color highlighting different information.

There are many different academic search engines. Some focus on a single discipline, while oalib has included articles from almost all fields including the latest frontier disciplines. If one hopes to find articles without limitations and get access to them, oalib is a good choice. Visit www.oalib.com.

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The American Anthropological Association announced on Monday that it will be converting the journal Cultural Anthropology to an open-access format, accessible free of charge to anyone, as of January 2014. In addition to current material, the new format will also provide a 10-year backlog. Cultural Anthropology is the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the AAA.

This is one of the subscription journals to open access its articles. With Open Access recognized to be a proper way to scientific research publishing, many subscription-based publishers shift to support open access. Springer and the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) are partnering to publish the Journal of Analytical Science and Technology (JAST), which is a fully sponsored open access journal.

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Oalib used in education

While the open access (OA) movement has been moving at rapid speeds for the past year, its strongest support from academia has been from the science, technology, engineering, and education community. Broader and more rapid access to scientific papers and data will make it easier for researchers and students to create on the findings of public-funded research. This will also give citizens quicker access to the benefits of scientific discoveries. Many college libraries in Universities accept oalib to be a literature resource, and encourage students to use it.

Oalib collects thousands of open access and subscription journals information and their access to full text of research papers posted on the Internet, from world-famous publishers, societies, institutes, universities and other agencies. Oalib is not as comprehensive as many subject databases or repositories, but it is useful in that it provides one way to search across many different disciplines and subject areas. Oalib is also not served as a digital public library, which serves people to access to information and knowledge, but it just allows people to find relevant results among countless open access research papers around all the world, and link to full text of variable forms. (see www.oalib.com)

Access to almost 270,000 scholarly articles through oalib

In the information age, information in countless forms is flowing into internet. New technologies have made it easers for people to get , store, share, and process data.

With online publishing becoming norm in the publication industry in this context, open access are gaining much momentum nowadays.

On 22 Feb, 2013, the White House science adviser, John Holdren, issued a memo instructing federal agencies that fund more than $100 million in research to create a mechanism to make published results free a year after publication. It is an expansion of a policy already in place at the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical research.

It is a big step for government on open access, but it is not satisfied with researches and scientists who are intended to immediate open access to their research papers.

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Oalib is not a digital public library

Oalib allows people to search for open access scholarly publications and offers access to full text of these works. It is not a digital public library, which open access to its data, although they both offer access to academic materials.

Digital public libraries aim to help visitors connect with the books, movies, media and people of public libraries via network technology. They electronically offer to service of availability of intellectual materials and access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual.

Oalib and digital public libraries are different in function while they both hold the conception of turning information and knowledge into power.

It is said that 20,702 articles were published in open-access journals in 2000, compared with 340,130 in 2011—nearly a fifth of all articles published that year. How do people to find useful articles across them is a subsequent problem that people encounter. Oalib strives to make it easy to offer a simple way to find open access articles. You can refer to www.oalib.com.

Oalib as to Open Access movement

The open access movement started in the 1990s when internet was popular and new technology of computer robustly developed so that online publication became trend. Researchers and scientists were not content with publishers who published their papers but required payment for reading or benefited from subscription.

There are several stages:
Development of open access journals: The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009
Statements about open access: the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Feb. 14, 2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (Apr. 11, 2003), theBerlin Declaration on Open Access (Oct. 22, 2003), Public Library of Science (PLoS) (founded in 2000), and Creative Commons (founded in 2001)
Development of open archives: Open Archives Initiative (started in October 1999)
Adoption of open access policies (starting in 2003): ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

Recently Open Access principles are gaining momentum with a new White House policy aimed at making taxpayer-funded research freely available and the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who worked to make such information free.

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After the Aaron Swartz’s suicide, a new order from the White House and legislation introduced in Congress have all drawn attention this year to an issue supporters refer to in short as “Open Access. The policy urges faculty to publish their research work for anyone to see through the Scholar Works system. In order not to do so — for instance, if a faculty member has an eye on a particular prestigious journal that doesn’t allow for open-access publication — faculty must opt out, rather than opting in.

Aaron Swartz, an Internet pioneer and activist, committed suicide in January. He was a co-founder of the social site Reddit and helped develop the feed service RSS, but he also was an advocate for open access — a “militant” one, Greenberg says. At the time of his death, he was being prosecuted by the federal government for allegedly breaking into MIT’s computer network and downloading millions of research articles from an online archive.(From: Matt Erickson)

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Oalib offers to help people search open access articles

A bill that requires free public access to articles resulting from federally funded research was introduced into the US Congress, delighting supporters of open access.

The bill, with the snappy acronym FASTR (fair access to science and technology research), would mandate research agencies to give the public access to papers no later than six months after their publication. At present, the US National Institutes of Health requires its research to be publicly accessible after 12 months,

A previous, similar bill, known as the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), has been introduced into Congress three times before — in May 2006, April 2009 and February 2012 — but never got to the voting stage.

FASTR is slightly different, mainly because of an added focus that papers should be made open not just to read, but also to re-use (such as by text mining). one said that on a post.

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Integrate open access academic research information worldwide

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Facilitate to find the most useful scholarly resources

Promote international exchange of academic research

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Welcome to oalib! Oalib search engine features free access to 263,385 academic articles. And this number is estimated to increase in the near future. Our mission is to provide free research articles to scholars around the world.

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Open access works are sharply increasing and digitization of academic literature is pouring into internet in the past decades. Finding useful academic research information in a broad scope seems difficult. Oalib established to meet the demands of using open access research papers provides a free custom search engine on the site www.oalib.com, through which over 250,000 articles with full text are free accessible online.

This service, based on the Google Custom Search engine, lets you search the contents of open access articles freely available deposited in the repositories (most listed in OpenDOAR ) or published in open access journals whose articles with e-print editions posted on the internet. This quality assured approach minimizes (but does not eliminate!) spurious or junk results, and leads more directly to useful and relevant information. Full texts are available for all results.

This service relies on Google's indexes, which in turn rely on repositories being suitably structured and configured for the Googlebot web crawler. Besides, oalib also digs into publishers all around the world of more or less publications for academic research information. Need to notice that oalib includes academic information newly came out on the web worldwide everyday and manage to retrieve them in shorter time. Try oalib: http://www.oalib.com.

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Open access (Open Access, OA) is a movement initiated by the international scientific community, academic community, the publishing industry, communication of information industry to promote free dissemination of the scientific research outcomes via network. Anyone can have free access to all kinds of literature with network technology.

Although most of the Open access resources can be downloaded freely, because the OA resources are relatively dispersed, and they are saved in quite different formats, the use of them can be sort of difficult to some degree. In order to make it convenient for the users to find better results from these resources, OALIB establishes the OA content search engine based on the google scholar custom search. You can easily search across more than 250,000 academic articles covering all areas of science and research. Almost all literature to be found in open access databases can be retrieved in this search engine. If you want to find certain content, you can go to the database with the links besides.

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In line with the UK government’s commitment to free and open access to publicly-funded research, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts recently announced a £10 million cash injection to the top 30 UK research-intensive institutions, to aid the transition to open access and compliance with the new Research Council UK Open Access Policy.

The new RCUK OA policy launched on the 16 July 2012 states that all peer-reviewed published research articles and conference proceedings funded by the RCUK must be open access from 1 April 2013 (although researchers are encouraged to begin OA publishing as soon as possible).

The RCUK OA policy and the Finch Report, together with this additional £10 million government funding announcement, signals significant developments for the open access movement in the UK, further ensuring that the results of UK research are made openly available for all.

BioMed Central, ChemistryCentral, SpringerOpen and Springer Open Choice are working closely with these UK institutions to set up Membership accounts to help manage publication visibility and provide discounts that will further extend the benefits of this extra funding.(From Rebecca Fairbairn)

Oalib collects open access literature from these resources and offers free search service of scholarly articles of open access, and full text of these articles are free available with pdf versions or html versions.

Oalib introduction

Open access publication becomes public agreement that benefit the science community and the public. A increasing number of open access journals, self-archiving articles, repositories and digital papers are deposited online.



For open access works we mean that it is freely available on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Oalib offers full contexts of all its outputs for searching.



Oalib (visit http://www.oalib.com) is a simple gateway to more than 250,000 scholarly articles worldwide in all areas of science and research. It is a worldwide open access scholarly articles search engine providing integrated access and increased visibility which deepens open access. millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide are included in oalib.



In this introduction and those posted before on the blog http://oalib.blogspot.com, It tells us what oalib is, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we run for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has emerged, and what its future may hold. This is a new free service for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

Oalib -gold oa or green oa?

The ARC(Australian Research Council) has introduced a new open access policy for ARC funded research which takes effect from 1 January 2013. According to this new policy the ARC requires that any publications arising from an ARC supported research project must be deposited into an open access institutional repository within a twelve (12) month period from the date of publication.

The ARC understands that some researchers may not be able to meet the new requirements initially because of current legal or contractual obligations. In these cases, Final Reports must provide reasons why publications derived from a Project, Award, or Fellowship have not been deposited in an open access institutional repository within the twelve month period. The policy will be incorporated into all new Funding Rules and Agreements released after 1 January 2013. It will not be applied retrospectively to pre-existing Funding Rules and Agreements.

This policy suggests public organizations prefer to a mix approach to open access via ‘green’ and ‘gold’ OA routes. It seems that both ‘gold’ oa and ‘green’ oa are not perfect in the context of academic publication for the time being. Oalib(www.oalib.com) is also a mixture of gold oa and green oa, which provides free service of searching scholar articles content online all around the world. Oalib is available online at www.oalib.com.

Oalib offers free service of searching open access articles

NIU Libraries has launched a pilot Open Access Fund that will provide small grants to faculty and graduate students to help defray the upfront costs associated with open access publishing.

Grappling with the costs for expensive journal subscriptions, a number of universities nationwide, including Harvard and MIT, are promoting open access publishing. It provides unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed journal articles, thus broadening access to scholarly research.

“In the current mode of scholarly communication, authors of scholarly works have to abrogate their copyright and distribution rights to their own work to have it appear in a publication that restricts access to the same work to only those who pay the subscription price for access,” University Libraries Dean Dawson says. “Open access wants to expose scholarly work to the widest possible audience, an audience not limited by commercial publishers’ restrictions.” （From：http://www.niutoday.info）

Open access gains much support among administrators, university management, researchers and scientists. However supporting open access and promoting open access model is only the first step for idea academic exchange. However how to use these open access articles is paid less attention to. Fortunately oalib (www.oalib.com) took a leading step to offer free service of searching open access articles online.Visit www.oalib.com.

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Oalib is a new scholar search engine for open access articles worldwide in all areas of science, technology, education, and other research fields. Sources of literature are from publishers, professional societies, repositories, universities, and other websites. Full texts of all articles are available and titles, authors information, abstracts, and key words are accessible with your choice. Now there are more than 250,000 articles included in oalib. Because oalib mainly collects academic literature applying CC-BY licence, outputs of searching oalib are fully open without any restriction.

Oalib is available at www.oalib.com. For the most common search of a topic through oalib, all results relating with the topic are outlaid in good order. And you can choose options of searching titles, authors, abstracts, keywords, or all to tell oalib what referring content you want.

Oalib provides a simple way to search academic literature, so it is now mostly used by libraries, researchers and universities for education. The most feature of oalib is that provides direct access to full texts of articles available for free online. As a user you can have access to a large number of research articles that cover a wide variety of disciplines that you can not find in any other repository, database, as well as google scholar. Search oalib now!

A new open access tool: oalib

A bill has been introduced into the United States Congress that would require most papers describing publicly-funded research to be made open access within six months of publication. Repository-based “green” open access line with those required for science papers in Research Councils UK’s new open access policy, is due to come into force on 1 April. Why open access is highly paid attention to?

The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue.

In this concise introduction, the blog tells us what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research. And there came up a new tool to use these open access resources: www.oalib.net.

Open Access Repository Searching: Oalib

Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. Open Access stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse. Here’s why that matters. OA is also increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters. It removes price barriers (subscription, li sensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers( most copyright and licensing restriction) .

However, there would be thousands of Open Access articles in hundreds of formats of over the world which reveals the difficulty in gaining full access to all of them. On the basis of google engine and other search engine, oalib is committed to gathering free of charge papers and documents of high quality for scholars worldwide. We support sustainable access and do our best to provide a wide range of open access options to ensure everyone can read, use and trust the latest and comprehensive research paper. Open Access is devoted to working in good relationship with the research community, librarians, funders and other stakeholders to create friendly and harmony atmosphere among the scholars. From website www.oalib.net, you can search among more than 250,000 scholar articles which cover almost all disciplines. This is a new tool for researchers, scientists, librarians, funders, publishers, teachers, and students.

Oalib: a digital library based on open access

Oalib is a digital library for users to search for academic literature, whose resources mostly come from open access publishers, universities, institutional repositories, subject repositories and other institutions.

Articles can be fully accessible through website www.oalib.net. Oalib collects open access articles all over the world about all areas in science, technology, knowledge and so on. Open access publications comply with CC-BY licence, which allows anyone to copy, distribute and transmit the work, adapt the work, make commercial use of the work under the condition that the user must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. Further, none of the following rights are affected by the licence: User’s fair dealing or fair use rights, or other applicable copyright exceptions and limitations; The author's moral rights; Rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used, such as publicity or privacy rights.

In addition, Oalib offers a simple way to search for intended scholar articles in tens of thousands of articles published or unpublished worldwide in all fields of research. Now there are more than 250,000 articles can be available, and the number is increasing sharply day by day. Welcome to visit www.oalib.net.

Oalib is a green oa

Over the last 20 years the publishing of scientific peer-reviewed journal articles has gone through a revolution triggered by the technical possibilities offered by the internet. Firstly, electronic publishing has become the dominant distribution channel for scholarly journals. Secondly, the low cost of setting up new electronic journals has enabled both scholars and publishers to experiment with new business models, where anybody with internet access can read the articles ('open access' or OA) and the required resources to operate journals are collected by other means than charging readers. Similarly, increased availability can be achieved by scientists uploading the prepublication versions of their articles published in subscription journals to OA web repositories such as PubMed Central. The majority of publishers now allow some form of archiving in their copyright agreements with authors, sometimes requiring an embargo period. Major research funders such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust have started requiring OA publishing from their grantees either in open access journals (gold OA) or repositories (green OA). A recent study showed that 20.4% of articles published in 2008 were freely available on the web, in 8.5% of the cases directly in journals and in 11.9% in the form of archived copies in some type of repository .(Article from Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact) Based that , Oalib (www.oalib.net) is a green OA, which provides users to have access to more than 250,000 academic articles for free and deal with it more convenient.

Oalib- a new step towards open access

A US announcement on open access was eagerly awaited. But when it came last week, the new policy was a blow for anyone who wants fully paid-for, immediate access to the results of publicly funded research.

The US Office of Science and Technology Policy has asked federal agencies to prepare plans to ensure that all articles and data produced from research that they fund are made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication. That delayed-access approach would have looked progressive five years ago, when the US National Institutes of Health was first putting into practice its mandate that (at least) the authors’ final versions of papers must be freely available within a maximum of a year of publishing — a ‘green’ open-access approach, with which this publication has consistently complied. But in 2013, it looks as if a combination of financial constraints and a lack of firm resolve at the top of the US government is blocking movement towards the policy that ultimately benefits science the most: ‘gold’ open access, in which the published article is immediately freely available, paid for by a processing charge rather than by readers’ subscriptions.( A blog from nature on 26 February 2013)

Oalib(www.oalib.net) seems a new creative open access process, different from green and gold open access. Oalib is newly launched search engine for academic articles. Though the us policy of open access does not apply immediate open access, which is a small step towords full open access compared to immediate open access, oalib makes a new platform to facilitate dealing with open access articles.

Oalib is an advance of open access

There is no longer a debate about whether the results of research should be freely accessible. All that remains is to work out when and how access will be enabled. Meanwhile, the political and economic question of 2012 has been: should governments invest to nurture economic recovery, or tighten their belts and risk further economic damage? Publicly funded research has often been at the heart of this debate as governments attempt to ensure that public investment is generating the greatest possible innovation, economic activity and societal gains.

It is in this light that researchers should view the dramatic advance of open access in 2012. This shift, and the reason why governments and funders are increasingly adopting or examining open-access mandates, is about more than just the benefits of access. It is about the potential of open access to improve the efficiency of research itself, and to deliver a greater return on public investment.

In this context, free access is not enough. To maximize the value of the public good and the return on investment, research outputs must be reusable. That does not just mean making data or papers available on the Internet, but ensuring that innovators can manipulate the material, including mining, translating or expressing it in imaginative ways or for new audiences.(article from: Science publishing: Open access must enable open use)So oalib(www.oalib.net) is a new platform to realize this. Oalib offers a tool for users to manipulate open access articles. Users can choose their own options according to their purposes.