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Open Access Award Recipients Announced
To mark the beginning of Open Access Week, the Accelerating Science Award Programme announced the three recipients of its inaugural award yesterday in Washington, DC. Read More »
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Open Access Benefits Students [North Georgia College and State University]
In honor of International Open Access Week, the Library and Technology Center held a conference on open access initiatives at NGCSU. Read More »
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Open Access Biblical Studies Courses
A couple years ago, Sebastian Thrun, a robotics professor at Stanford started the first MOOC (massively open online course). Since that time, open access education has spread broad and wide, with major universities publishing whole courses to the internet for free. [...] In this setting, I have found a few open access biblical studies courses worth looking at. Read More »
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Open Access Body Needed ‘To Coordinate Implementation’
A formal body should be set up to coordinate efforts to implement open access, the Finch Group has recommended. Read More »
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Open Access Boosts Journal Availabilty
Over the past several weeks, Baker-Berry Library has hosted a variety of events aimed at informing students and faculty about the open access movement, a national campaign to make scholarship freely accessible worldwide. The events culminated in Open Access Week, which concludes Friday. Read More »
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Open Access Comes To Africa
Hundreds of scholars gathered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, last month to build a stronger case for making the results of scientific research freely accessible worldwide. Calling scientific knowledge the motor of economic development, delegates to the international gathering, the Berlin 10 Conference on Open Access, urged scientists to radically change how they evaluate and communicate their work. Read More »
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Open Access Day – Taiwan
BioMed Central, Springer Asia and CONCERT (Consortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan) jointly organized an open access seminar on April 26, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan. [...] Read More »
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Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old Jack Andraka To Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic
Open Access Empowers 16-year-old to Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic: An Interview with Jack Andraka and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health Read More »
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Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old Jack Andraka To Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic
Open Access Empowers 16-year-old to Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic: An Interview with Jack Andraka and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health Read More »
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Open Access Explained
The conversation about scientific publishing has exploded lately, online, in print and in person. Last week, the journal Nature released a special issue called The future of publishing. Also last week, Michael Eisen [...] posted a speech he gave on the past and projected future of scholarly communication in the age of the Internet. I want to start there, because his remarks were thorough and persuasive, and they inspired me to think differently about the issue... Read More »
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Open Access From The Perspective Of Young Researchers
The Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers (LSYR), the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium and the Association of Lithuanian Serials share the results of EIFL-funded project on educating young researchers on the benefits of open access and engaging them to become open access advocates in the country. Read More »
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Open Access Gains Momentum In Washington
When MIT faculty adopted an open access (OA) policy for their scholarly articles in March 2009, they expressed a strong philosophical commitment to disseminating "the fruits of their research and scholarship" as widely as possible. The MIT Libraries are paying close attention to recent events in Washington that have the potential to expand this commitment... Read More »
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Open Access In EU Finally On The Horizon?
Discussions on the cost of access to articles in scholarly journals have been rocking the international media in the past months – everywhere from the Economist to the New York Times. The proverbial genie has left the bottle, everyday more researchers, students, and policymakers are realizing how unsustainable today’s way of publishing research has become... Read More »
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Open Access In Science [Imperial College-London]
With Open Access Week 2012 taking place from 22–28 October, Henry Rzepa, Professor of Computational Chemistry, discusses the importance of open access journals in science. Read More »
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Open Access Is Not The Problem – My Take On Science’s Peer Review “Sting”
In 2011, after having read several really bad papers in the journal Science, I decided to explore just how slipshod their peer-review process is. I knew that their business depends on publishing “sexy” papers. So I created a manuscript that claimed something extraordinary - that I’d discovered a species of bacteria that uses arsenic in its DNA instead of phosphorus. [...] Read More »
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