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OMICS Group is the Publisher of 14 Nobel Laureates Supporting Cellular and Molecular Biology : 60 Years Old Reputed Medline Indexed Journal

Press Release | OMICS Group International | October 14, 2013

Dean Dr. Raymond J. Wegmann, the founding editor of Cellular and Molecular Biology signed agreement at OMICS Office and stated that, "OMICS Publishing Group is a better publisher than any other publishing house." Read More »

Sciedu Press Support theNew Open Access Policy Of Canadian Institutes Of Health Research

Press Release | Sciedu Press | November 14, 2013

Putting their patients and researchers first, Canadian Institute of Health Research has introduced a new open access policy, which Sciedu Press supports fully. Read More »

'Open Access' Science Journals Continue to Expand

John Timmer | Ars Technica | April 24, 2013

To help speed the flow of scientific information, the National Institutes of Health has mandated a policy where any papers derived from research it funds are made public within a year of their publication... Read More »

'Open Access' Tributes To Aaron Swartz

Caleb Garling | San Francisco Chronicle | January 14, 2013

The suicide of hacker and digital activist Aaron Swartz has prompted academics from around the globe to post their research online for free, and led the university involved in Swartz's prosecution to launch an investigation into its own role in events leading to his death. Read More »

5 Academic Publishing Trends To Watch In 2013

George Lossius | Publishing Perspectives | January 21, 2013

2012 was certainly an eventful, some would even say turbulent, year in the unpredictable world of academic publishing. [...] So what can we expect from 2013? Read More »

5 Open Access Journals for Open Source Researchers

By Joshua Allen Holm | October 20, 2014

While there is no single, quick fix to the problem with the academic journal prices, there is a movement applying the open source way to academic research in an attempt to solve the problem—the open access movement. The goal of open access is to make research freely available upon publication or soon thereafter. Quite often the journal articles are licensed under some form of Creative Commons license or something equally permissive... Read More »

A Couple Of Open Access Week Events

Eric Lease Morgan | Days in the Life of a Librarian | November 17, 2012

A couple of Open Access Week events were sponsored here at Notre Dame on October 31, and this posting summarizes my experiences. Read More »

A Mine Of Information – The PLOS Text Mining Collection

Camron Assadi | PLOS Blogs | April 17, 2013

The growth of Open Access has increased the pool of digital information that is available for Text Mining. This relatively new interdisciplinary field emerged in the 1980s and combines techniques from linguistics, computer science and statistics to build tools that can efficiently retrieve, extract and analyze information from digital text. Read More »

Aaron Swartz Inspired People ‘To Become Heroes Of Their Own Story’

Staff Writer | RT | February 11, 2014

Since Aaron Swartz’s death a lot of activists realize they’re facing huge battles, but everybody can be doing something to fight back in a way to address that, Parker Higgins from the Electronic Frontier Foundation told RT. Read More »

Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology In History

Jason Schmitt | The Blog | December 23, 2014

The music business was killed by Napster; movie theaters were derailed by digital streaming; traditional magazines are in crisis mode--yet in this digital information wild west: academic journals and the publishers who own them are posting higher profits than nearly any sector of commerce...

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Academic Paywalls Mean Publish And Perish

Sarah Kendzior | Aljazeera | October 2, 2012

On July 19, 2011, Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and activist, was arrested for downloading 4.8 million academic articles. The articles constituted nearly the entire catalogue of JSTOR, a scholarly research database. Universities that want to use JSTOR are charged as much as $50,000 in annual subscription fees. Read More »

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