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Open Access Week 2012 [University of Iowa]
The University of Iowa Libraries joins thousands of other academic research libraries worldwide in celebration of International Open Access Week. To draw attention to this important issue facing faculty, students and librarians, we’re turning our website orange in recognition of open access. Read More »
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Open Access Week 2013 Starts Today
Here at ProfHacker we’ve published many posts about open access, “the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need.” Read More »
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Open Access Week Showcases Research [Tufts University]
Associate Provost Mary Lee is hosting Tufts’ fourth annual Open Access Week from Oct. 22 through Oct. 28. Part of an international program to expand education and research audiences, the initiative at Tufts is an opportunity for professors to showcase the work they will publish in open access journals, or publications that anyone can access for free. Read More »
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Open Access — What Do Authors Really Want?
There’s no doubt that open access (OA) is becoming more and more popular with authors...So what do authors themselves think about OA? Does it affect where they choose to publish? What are their reasons for publishing – or not publishing – in an OA journal? The results of a recent Wiley survey provide some interesting answers. Read More »
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Open Access, Library And Publisher Competition, And The Evolution Of General Commerce
Discussions of the economics of scholarly communication are usually devoted to Open Access, rising journal prices, publisher profits, and boycotts. That ignores what seems a much more important development in this market... Read More »
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Open Access: 'We No Longer Need Expensive Publishing Networks'
Higher education institutions need to recognise the changing world of publishing, says Rupert Gatti – it's time for academics to take matters into their own hands Read More »
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Open Access: Four Ways It Could Enhance Academic Freedom
The power of funding alone should not be enough to override academic freedom, argues Curt Rice, nor does open access automatically skew the world of scholarship Read More »
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Open Access: Six Myths To Put To Rest
Open access to academic research has never been a hotter topic. But it's still held back by myths and misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better. The good news is that open access has been successful enough to attract comment from beyond its circle of pioneers and experts. The bad news is that a disappointing number of policy-makers, journalists and academics opine in public without doing their homework. Read More »
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Open Access: The $2,950 Book Review
A few months ago I reviewed Leah Price’s latest monograph for the European Review of History. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain explores nineteenth-century representations and perceptions of books and other printed objects such as newspapers and religious pamphlets. [...] Read More »
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Open Access: What Every Researcher Should Know
Recently, a movement has grown up around the issue of open access to scholarly research. It’s likely that the debate surrounding this movement will have a profound effect on how the web is used for scholarly communications in the future. Read More »
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Open Access: What You Need To Know Now By Walt Crawford
Sometimes we Open Access advocates tend to assume everybody is already on our side. You know, all our librarian and scientist colleagues out there. Surely by now they’ve seen the light. They understand the main issues and flavours of OA, can ably summarize the major arguments for OA and refute the major complaints against. Read More »
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Open Library of Humanities Launched
We are establishing a company structure for a non-profit organisation called Open Library of Humanities (OLH). This will be an open access “megajournal” in the style of the US-run Public Library of Science [...]; which will publish thoroughly peer reviewed humanities and social science research under Open Access conditions at a financially fair rate. Read More »
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Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier Faring Well In India
The Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier, aka ORCID, was launched mid-October 2012 as a not-for-profit initiative for delivering a universal author ID service to the world research and scholarly community. Read More »
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Open Scholarship On The Rise
The open source approach has permeated even the dusty corners of academia. Open scholarship is a growing movement to make academic research publicly accessible, instead of tucked away in journals that are only available by subscription. Read More »
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Open, Free Access to Academic Research? This Will Be a Seismic Shift
Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it. Read More »
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