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Publishers Do Not Provide Peer-Review. We Do.
Publishers do not provide peer-review. We do. The same body of researchers that writes the papers for publishers also performs peer-review for publishers. And we charge exactly the same amount: nothing. Peer review is just one more gift that we give to the publishers. It’s a gift that I don’t begrudge when the world can benefit from it, through open-access publishing.
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Publishers Flip Out, Call Bill To Provide Open Access To Federally Funded Works A 'Boondoggle'
A year ago, we wrote about Rep. Mike Doyle introducing an important bill to provide public access to publicly funded research. [...] Unlike just about any other publication, [academic] journals don't pay their writers (and in many subject areas, authors need to pay to submit), they don't pay the peer reviewers -- and then they charge positively insane amounts to university libraries... Read More »
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Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access -- And It's Working
Over the last few years, Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of victories for open access. Along the way publishers have tried various counter-attacks, which all proved dismal failures. But there are signs that they have changed tack, and come up with a more subtle -- and increasingly successful -- approach. Read More »
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Publishers Hop On Board The Open Access Bandwagon
With momentum building for the open release of academic materials, the American Association of Publishers has offered up a new framework for a clearinghouse that could make open access to research data easier for the public. Read More »
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Publishers Offer CHORUS As Solution To Federal Open Access Requirements
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has put forward its bid for a coalition of publishers to handle many of the requirements outlined in the recent Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo requiring open access to federally funded research, in the form of the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS). Read More »
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Publishers Respond In CHORUS To White House Open Access Mandate
In February, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) informed federal agencies spending more than $100 million on research to develop strategies to make published results of federal funded research publicly available. OSTP stipulated that results must be freely available within one year of publication. Read More »
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Publishing And The POOC, Or, Why We Need Open Access
Isn’t everything up on the internet for free? Yes, most new books and articles appear in digital format, but NO-O-O they’re not (yet) mostly free. Libraries pay big bucks to license them, and the licenses require libraries to restrict access to narrow audiences (students, faculty, or people physically inside the library). Read More »
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Puerto Rico’s Double Whammy: Irma and Hedge Funds
Irma, the largest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, has proven cruelly fickle as it surges through the Caribbean. The Category Five storm “hit like a bomb” on the small islands of Barbuda and St. Martin, destroying up to 95 percent of the structures and rendering the areas “barely habitable.” But Irma stayed north of Puerto Rico, sparing the island from the worst. That’s not to say that Puerto Rico didn’t sustain damage...
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Pulling Back From Open Source Hardware, MakerBot Angers Some Adherents
You likely know MakerBot Industries as the poster child for the new era of 3D-printing. You might not know that, until last week, the company and its CEO, Bre Pettis, were considered shining lights in the open-source hardware movement. Read More »
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Purdue e-Pubs Reaches Milestone With 3 Million Downloads From Across Globe
When Purdue civil engineering emeritus professor Sidney Diamond published his work on "Methods of Soil Stablilization for Erosion Control" in 1975, he expected it to primarily be read in Indiana. After all, assisting the state to improve its transportation infrastructure was and still is the primary goal of the Joint Transportation Research Program, which published Diamond's work. Read More »
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Purdue Libraries create buzz with open access e-Pubs at Indiana State Fair
Purdue is a great example of a public university that uses their IR (Purdue e-Pubs) to provide valuable public resources for its state. This year, they had a great opportunity to further extend awareness of those resources at the Indiana State Fair. Read More »
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Push Button For Open Access
Two medical students are helping to turn the dream of making scientific research papers freely accessible into a reality, using the internet of course Read More »
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Putting Neglected Tropical Diseases Under Spotlight
The development community is finally talking about how best to fight NTDs but more consensus and practical action is needed Read More »
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Putting People First In The Post-2015 Development Framework
This post sets out what open government is and why it matters, explains the relevance of open government to the post-2015 development framework, and poses some questions about whether and how the principles of open government might feature in the post-2015 development framework. Read More »
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PwC and Google Announce Joint Business Relationship
PwC and Google Inc. today announced the launch of a joint business relationship to bring new and innovative services to companies around the world.
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