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Frontiers Launches A New Open-Access Journal In Energy Research
Frontiers, one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers, now part of the Nature Publishing Group family, will launch its Frontiers in Energy Research journal today... Read More »
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Frontiers Launches New Open-Access Journal: Frontiers In Pediatrics
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 »
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Fund Helps Emory Authors Get Published
The Emory University Open Access (OA) Publishing Fund helped Emory University researchers publish four articles in scholarly open access journals this year, and the plan is to assist even more authors in the coming months. Read More »
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Funding Model For Open Access Unveiled
The distribution of more than £100 million in research council funding for open access article fees will be directly proportional to how much universities have charged the councils for direct labour costs over the last three years. Read More »
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G-8 Conference Highlights Importance Of Open Data In Ag
The G-8 Open Data For Agriculture Conference kicked off with an announcement from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on the new virtual community launched on Data.gov. Read More »
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Gates Foundation’s Strict Open Access Policy may have Domino Effect
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major supporter of health and development research, is to introduce an open access policy next month for the studies it funds that goes further than most other research funders. The policy “will enable other researchers to access the latest evidence and draw on it to advance their own research” to help tackle malnutrition, infectious diseases, and child and maternal mortality, writes Trevor Mundel, the foundation’s president of global health, on the organization's website.
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Geoghegan-Quinn: 'Open Access Is The Default'
European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn tells DW why Open Access to new scientific research is vital for the public, and why traditional publishers know it's time to change. Read More »
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GFAR Launches Platform To Make Agricultural Data More Available
In an effort to make agricultural research more widely available, The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) officially launched the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) platform in October of 2013. The GODAN program, born from the 2012 G8 conference, “Open Data in Agriculture,” is designed to make agricultural data open, shared and available. Read More »
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Global Portal Throws Spotlight On Open Access Movement
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 »
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Golden Age Of Healthcare: Open Health Data
Healthcare is complex, complicated, and touches every single individual on this planet. The average spend per capita on healthcare costs is rising tremendously year over year and the governmental focus seems to be on increasing premiums, changing tax rates and focusing completely only on efficiency gains. Read More »
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Grants For Innovative Projects To Promote Open Access To Data
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 »
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Greece promotes Open Access Week 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 »
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Guest Blog: Why I Publish Open Access
Joshua Drew, a lecturer in marine conservation biology at Columbia University, offers a personal perspective on Open Access publishing from a researcher’s point of view. Having now moved to a policy of publishing entirely in Open Access journals, he talks to BioMed Central about the benefits that this can bring to researchers wishing to get the most from their publications, together with some of the challenges that lie ahead Read More »
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Guest Post – The Open Access Button
For the past few months, like chickens on eggs we have been sitting on what we think is a game changing idea. We’ve been sitting on it because despite trying as two student activists, we just haven’t found the help we need to make it a reality. So to preface what you’re about to read – we need your help. Read More »
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Half Of 2011 Papers Now Free To Read
Search the Internet for any research article published in 2011, and you have a 50–50 chance of downloading it for free. [...] The finding, released on 21 August, is heartening news for advocates of open access. But some experts are raising their eyebrows at the high numbers. Read More »
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