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Easier Access To PLOS Data
You’ve always relied on PLOS to make scientific and medical research freely accessible to all. Now we’re introducing a number of tools and services to unlock the full potential of the data that currently exists in the Figures and Supporting Information files of our journals but has to this point been just beyond easy reach and these include: Read More »
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EIFL Starts An OA Project In Kenya, Tanzania And Uganda
“Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” is a new EIFL regional project funded by Spider, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions DSV, Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University. Read More »
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Elsevier Clamps Down On Academics Posting Their Own Papers Online
Academic publisher Elsevier has been targeting open access websites and universities that are posting their own academic articles online with takedown notices for copyright infringement. Read More »
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Elsevier Launches Open Access Journal That Will Publish Sound Research Across All Disciplines
High-tech publishing platform to be developed in cooperation with researchers, offering a new publishing option tailored to their needs...
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Enunciation On Open Access: The Practitioners’ Perspective
A continually growing body of student organizations, as well as scientists, have been advocating for an Open Access to scientific publications. The European Federation of Psychology Students Associations (EFPSA) has been part of this effort for a long time and this blog hosts an extensive cover of the numerous aspects of the Open Access initiative... Read More »
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Established Journals To Publish Under Open Access Model
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today that Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Microbial Biotechnology have joined the Wiley Open Access publishing program. All articles in these two journals are now open access and free to view, download and share. Read More »
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Exosomes And Microvesicles Journal, a new Open Access publication
InTech Open Access publisher is pleased to announce the collaboration with the American Society for Exosomes and Microvesicles (ASEMV) to publish the scientific journal Exosomes and Microvesicles, a peer-reviewed publication designed to bring together exosomes principles, scientific research and clinical applications. Read More »
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Explorer Allows Public Access to Results Of Sea Monster Search
NG Emerging Explorer Jørn Hurum recently returned from an expedition to Spitsbergen Island in the Arctic Circle excavating the remains of ancient marine reptiles worthy of the most fantastic Norse legends. Read about their exciting adventure here on Explorers Journal through their frequent updates from the field. Get the results of the search in the Norwegian Journal of Geology. Read More »
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Exporting From Mendeley?
As has been widely reported, the reference manager Mendeley was recently purchased for roughly $69 million by Elsevier, the Dutch publishing behemoth. Though we often suggest Zotero as a way to organize and cite research material, we have favorably recommended Mendeley as well... Read More »
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Faculty Research Shared Through OpenEmory Reaches Milestones
OpenEmory, the open access repository for faculty-authored published research articles at Emory University, celebrated its one-year anniversary in September, and as of Oct. 3, surpassed 1,800 articles uploaded to the site and has logged 9,912 article downloads. Read More »
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FASTR Aims To Speed Open Access To Government-Funded Research
[...] If passed, FASTR would require government agencies with annual extramural research expenditures of more than $100 million make electronic manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles based on their research freely available on the Internet within six months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Read More »
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Finch Access Plan Unlikely To Fly Across The Atlantic
Felice Levine, executive director of learned society the American Educational Research Association, told the Academy of Social Science's Implementing Finch conference last week that the Finch report on open access had been "noticed" in the US. Read More »
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For Disruption, MOOCs Beat Open-Access Journals, Scholar Says
MOOCs are more disruptive to higher education than open-access megajournals are, in part because of structural protections in the scholarly-publishing world and because some policy makers are pushing massive open online courses as a means to increase productivity, a professor argues in a new article on open-access alternatives in higher education. Read More »
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For Patents, Against Open Access: The Sad State Of University Leadership
Quick. Name a leader of a major research university who has taken a courageous stand on any important issue in the last decade. I know they’re out there. They must be. But I can’t think of one. Instead, I’m left dumfounded reading this amicus brief filed in a case – Bowman v. Monsanto – about to be heard by the US Supreme Court. Read More »
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Free Availability Of Knowledge – Open Access At DLR
International Open Access Week will be held from 21 to 27 October 2013. Universities, libraries, research centres and government institutions around the world will join in events and activities to demonstrate the benefits and advantages of open access, the principle of unrestricted availability of scientific results, and to promote experience, inspiration and participation. [...] Read More »
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