OACS
- Open Access Communication
for Science
OACS network
This website contains resources for readers interested in the Scientific Communication Life-Cycle model. The purpose of the model is to act as a roadmap for policy discussions and research concerning the process. In comparison to earlier models found in the literature this model is more detailed, hierarchical and includes more modelling constructs (activities, inputs, outputs, controls, mechanisms). The modelling methodology used is IDEF0, a process modelling method, which previously has mainly been used for business process reengineering in the manufacturing industries.
The scope of the model is the whole communication value chain, from initial research to the assimilation of research results to improve every-day life. The model treats both informal and formal communication, as well as the publishing of data, but the major focus is on modelling the publishing and indexing of traditional peer reviewed journal articles, as well as the activities of readers to find out about them and access them. The new business models and parallel functions enabled by the Internet, such as open access journals and e-print repositories, are also in focus.
IPR University Center is an Institute established jointly by five Finnish universities: the University of Helsinki, the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Turku, and Helsinki University of Technology. The Institute coordinates and promotes education of and research into issues of intellectual and industrial property rights. IPR University Center is located in the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.
Anssi Öörni, Ph.D. (Econ.), from Helsinki School of Economics will be involved in the project to study user behaviour.
SciX - Open, self-organising repository for scientific information exchange funded by the European Commission through the 5th framework IST programme.
OACS builds on and extends the preliminary studies carried out by HANKEN within the SciX project. SciX is scheduled to end in early 2004.
FinnOA is an informal group working to promote open access in Finland.
ScieCom ScieCom - Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific Communication Everything related to open access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm
OACS acknowledgment
We at OACS are very grateful to David L. Roberts, Ph.D. at Michigan State University for letting us use his beautiful photograph of an oak leaf on our site.
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Updated: 26.01.2007
