Hi everyone,

To further support the cause, we've just issued a press release to keep this item top of mind. You can access it here: http://www.augsa.com/media_files/aucc-ac%20agreement%20press%20release.pdf :)

Best,

Amanda

Thanks Rory and Amanda!
Pam

Thanks Rory, and Amand for your work to support open access to digital material that contributes to research innovation in universities.

Olivia

Does that mean something needs to replace Elsevier? Is it practical for one or two universities per country with publishing capacity to divide up the job of replacing them?

Since Google took away the "Advance Search" link on the front page, I always want to find a way to get it back. Thanks for the post and instructions, I'm glad that it is still possible to go advanced. A simple way is to bookmark and use the links: 

http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search (for advance image search, which can filter result by license/commercial/modify usage rights.

http://www.google.ca/advanced_search (which I really miss, for language specific search, etc.)

Here's how to make the default search page in Chrome going to the Advance search mode, for either web search or image search. 

in Chrome (not Firefox)

1. click on the wrench icon at top right, a popup menu appears, select 'Preferences'
2. Under the Preferences -> Basics page, there's the 'Search' option. Click on the button 'Manage Search Engines...'
3. A long list of Search Engines shows up. At the bottom, there are three fields for you to 'Add a new search engine.'
4. In the 1st field, enter "Google Advance" or "Google Image Advanced" or any name, in the 3rd field, enter 
   http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?q=%s
   for google advance image search
   http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=%s
   for google advance web search 
5. The 2nd field Keyword is tricky. As 'google.ca' is already being used, we need to use a different 'Keyword.' I tried to add a slash to the google.ca/ to differentiate it from Keywords already being used. If there are a couple of google.ca site you wanna add, try adding multiple slashes to differentiate it from others (e.g. google.ca//).
6. If there is no duplication of name or keyword or URL, the field won't turn red. And you can click anywhere other than the three fields to register this new search engine.
7. Scroll back to the long list of all available search engines, find the one you just created. Mouse over it and a 'Make Default"  button will show up. Clicking on that to make the search default. And from now on, whatever non-url things you enter in a Chrome URL bar will get directed to that default search engine you just set.

Note: The advance search won't be as 'instant' as the original default, meaning you have to explicitly click on the Advanced Search button instead of seeing the search result instantly. This is mainly due to you are asking for all these options to filter the search research. 

Anyone can make it work for Firefox??

Great Instruction. I manage a Canadian e-Learning company Scholarix e-Learning Solutions and as a business owner, anyone pulling images from Google should be really careful on how we intend to use them as some of them might be restricted even for educational use.

- Adam

Personally I like to see more movement to support peer reviewed open access journals as both the research and peer review process is supported by public funds. If a private enterprise is able to add value to the FREE data then it makes sense to offer that product,and get compensated for the additional value add they are supplying (not the case with FREE data and peer review). If the organization can't compete because public or non-profit organization offers the product or service perhaps the for profit organization should pay more attention to the market and move into something more lucative. They are after all in existance to generate a profit from the product or service they offer. 

I was under the understanding that some taxpayer funding has been used to support car races (Edmonton Indy), Hockey Arenas and could be used for specific types of tournaments (eg. bowling, waterpolo etc.). So while I personally would prefer investment in sustainable Social Entrepreneurship venutres rather than continued tax dollar support for most of these things there does seem to be a bit of an addiction for everyone to use public funds.

Can you elaborate on who the "slaves" are?

Done!