Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
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Digital Access To Knowledge: Research Chat With Harvard’s Peter Suber
How much access is there to cutting-edge research online? The reality is that access to the world’s deepest knowledge — that produced by professional researchers — remains contested in the digital space. Read More »
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Funders Punish Open-Access Dodgers
For years, two of the world’s largest research funders — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom — have issued a steady stream of incentives to coax academics to abide by their open-access policies. Now they are done with just dangling carrots. Both institutions are bringing out the sticks: cautiously and discreetly cracking down on researchers who do not make their papers publicly available.
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Open Access Week At Harvard, October 22 - 28, 2012: Celebrating Open Access Worldwide
Today marks the beginning of Open Access Week, a six-day celebration and reflection on the global movement to promote “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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