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Open Access Is The Future For Africa’s Science Media
The physical publishing of books, newspapers and magazines is as outdated as the concept of notebook journalism represented by Clark Kent — instead of Superman giving us our daily dose of news, we are now just as likely to receive it online from “citizen journalists” with no formal training. Read More »
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Open Access Journals And Healthcare Information: Indexing And Archiving
The main function of peer reviewed open access publishing platforms is to powerfully present the content online, making it available to all, and link this information with useful scientific data... Read More »
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Open Access Juggernaut Hits London
Everyone’s talking about open access (OA). It has been a year of dramatic developments in the drive to liberate access to the research literature and the blogosphere is buzzing with excited chatter. Read More »
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Open Access Legislation In The US And Canada Looks To Prioritize Post-Publication Archiving, Not Publishers' Profits
[...] Providing further context on open access policy, Heather Morrison presents cases from the U.S. and Canada, where each are also grappling with how to provide wider access to publicly funded research. If passed, the U.S.’s FASTR Act would require ‘green’ archiving and a focus on interoperability of local repositories. Read More »
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Open Access Meeting Reflections—SPARC 2012
Ten years after the movement was launched through the Budapest Open Access Initiative, open access (OA) is thriving, flourishing, and becoming a core element in the broader “Open Knowledge” movement that includes Open Educational Resources (OER), Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Data, and Open Science among others, all of which share the common goals of providing free, unrestricted access to different types of information and knowledge. Read More »
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Open Access petition on 'We The People' web site
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has urged librarians and other interested parties to sign a petition calling for public access to all federally funded research, which was posted on the White House’s “We the People” website on May 21. If the petition gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days, it will be considered for action by the White House staff. Read More »
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Open Access Petition Passes 25,000 Threshold
A petition calling for public access to all federally funded research posted last month on the White House’s “We the People” website has garnered the 25,000 signatures necessary to be considered for action by the Obama Administration. Read More »
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Open Access Pitch For Life Science Elite
BETTER models of proteins, the mathematics of malaria, and an enzyme that detects foreign DNA are among the first contents of a new life sciences journal that marks another chapter in the open access story. Read More »
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Open Access Plan is No Academic Spring
The UK government is currently making a fundamental choice concerning access to the results of publicly funded research...Everyone agrees that these results should be freely available. So the decision the UK faces is not about whether access to scientific research should be free. Rather, it is about how this should be accomplished. Read More »
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Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review
Within the context of the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) research scope, this literature review investigates the current trends, advantages, disadvantages, problems and solutions, opportunities and barriers in Open Access Publishing (OAP), and in particular Open Access (OA) academic publishing. Read More »
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Open Access Repositories, Copyright, And Fair Use At ACRL
Open access repositories using DSpace or Fedora open source software are growing in numbers of installations worldwide (1,500+), as well as in the volume and diversity of resources that they help to make available... Read More »
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Open Access Resources at University of Kashmir
No library can afford to subscribe to every scientific publication and most can only afford a small fraction of them. The Open Access movement believes it can solve this problem to a great extent. Read More »
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Open Access Resources For Biblical Studies
I have recently posted on issues of crowdsourcing (Ancient Lives and Wikiloot), and a related issue is that of open access in scholarship. Since this is Open Access Week, I thought I would make a few comments on the matter, as well as noting some very useful and freely available resources for biblical studies. Read More »
Open Access Science Publisher Demands Full Availability Of Data
If you publish in PLoS, be prepared to share all the underlying data. Read More »
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Open Access Spreads
A bill in the California legislature would require state-funded research to be made public free of charge within a year of its publication. Read More »
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