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Freedom For Scholarship In The Internet Age

Heather Morrison | The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics | December 13, 2012

Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. [...] Read More »

From Crowdfunding To Open Access, Startups Are Experimenting With Academic Research

Danny Crichton | TechCrunch | March 3, 2014

These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a handful of years. Read More »

Frontiers Is Featured In The Prestigious Nature Magazine

Press Release | Frontiers | July 7, 2013

Frontiers, a community driven open-access publisher and research networking platform for scientists, is featured on the inside cover of this week's Nature, with endorsements from Nobel laureates and other leading researchers. [...] Read More »

Frontiers Launches New Open-Access Journal: Frontiers In Pediatrics

Press Release | Frontiers | December 21, 2012

Frontiers, one of the world's fastest growing open-access publishers, announced today the launch of its new online journal in Pediatrics: Frontiers in Pediatrics. Read More »

Global Portal Throws Spotlight On Open Access Movement

Munyaradzi Makoni | SciDev.Net | December 5, 2012

The open access (OA) movement — which campaigns for free scholarly information via the Internet — has welcomed a website that aims to be the first port of call for checking the status of OA around the world. Read More »

Grants For Innovative Projects To Promote Open Access To Data

Press Release | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) | February 19, 2013

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has announced a Challenge Grant program funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  Through the program, ICPSR will fund innovative projects to promote open access to data, support research transparency, improve data citation, and more generally build good practice in data management and stewardship. Read More »

Greece promotes Open Access Week 2012

Staff Writer | OpenAIRE | November 9, 2012

The National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT) participated in the Open Access Week by hosting a series of events - informative sessions and seminars - which aimed to broaden understanding and raise awareness of open access issues. Read More »

Half Of Taxpayer Funded Research Will Soon Be Available To The Public

Andrea Peterson | Washington Post | January 17, 2014

Proponents of the open access model for academic research notched a huge victory Thursday night when Congress passed a budget that will make about half of taxpayer-funded research available to the public. Read More »

Hard Evidence: Is Open Access Working?

Ernesto Priego | The Conversation | October 23, 2013

According to Peter Suber open access is academic literature which is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions". Open access delivered by journals is called “gold” open access and open access delivered by repositories is called “green” open access. [...] Read More »

Highlighting The Best Open Access Research: BioMed Central’s 7th Annual Research Awards

Rebecca Fairbairn | BioMed Central | November 15, 2012

It’s that time of year again! Nominations are open for you to put forward your favorite BioMed Central open access research article for our seventh annual Research Awards. Articles must be published in one of our 240 plus BioMed Central journals, during 2012 to qualify. Read More »

Highlights From Open Access Week 2012 At Indiana University

Stacy Konkiel | Indiana University | November 13, 2012

This year’s Open Access Week events at Indiana University-Bloomington were a resounding success. Due in large part to new cross-campus partnerships, the Scholarly Communication department was able to bring a series of six events to students and faculty from October 22-26. Read More »

Honouring Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist

Michael Geist | The Tyee | January 22, 2013

Digital rights advocate's death places spotlight on more open access to info. The Internet community has been reeling for the past week as it grapples with the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a prominent digital rights activist who left a remarkable legacy for a 26-year-old... Read More »

How To Provide Open Access?

Ry Rivard | Inside Higher Ed | June 5, 2013

Scholarly publishers want to keep hosting taxpayer-funded research that will soon be made public free of charge. The publishers unveiled a plan to do so Tuesday by arguing they could save the federal government money. The plan also allows publishers to keep at least a piece of a pie they now own. Read More »

If An Experiment Fails In A Forest, Does Anyone Hear?

Will Schroeder | Kitware Blog | February 10, 2013

[To] my way of thinking, if you are a technologist then there is no choice but to practice Open Science. Anything else is tantamount to arguing that a witch weighs the same as a duck. Read More »

If Someone Hits A Paywall In The Forest, Does It Make A Sound?: The Open Access Button

David Carroll and Joseph McArthur | PLOS Blogs | August 20, 2013

In this guest post, David Carroll and Joseph McArthur, medical and pharmacology students at Queen’s University and University College London, respectively, describe their progress on the Open Access Button, a project they hope will help the push towards a more open scholarly publishing system. Read More »