open access (OA)

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Open Access Resources For Biblical Studies

Isaac M. Alderman | Bible Junkies | October 24, 2013

I have recently posted on issues of crowdsourcing (Ancient Lives  and  Wikiloot), and a related issue is that of open access in scholarship. Since this is Open Access Week, I thought I would make a few comments on the matter, as well as noting some very useful and freely available resources for biblical studies. Read More »

Open Access Science Publisher Demands Full Availability Of Data

John Timmer | Ars Technica | February 25, 2014

If you publish in PLoS, be prepared to share all the underlying data. Read More »

Open Access Spreads

Ry Rivard | Inside Higher Ed | April 29, 2013

A bill in the California legislature would require state-funded research to be made public free of charge within a year of its publication. Read More »

Open Access To Research Data: The European Commission’s Consultation In Progress

Velichka Dimitrova | Open Economics | July 9, 2013

The European Commission held a public consultation on open access to research data on July 2 in Brussels inviting statements from researchers, industry, funders, IT and data centre professionals, publishers and libraries. [...] Read More »

Open Access To Research Publications Reaching 'Tipping Point'

Press Release | Science-Metrix, European Commission (EC) | August 21, 2013

The global shift towards making research findings available free of charge for readers—so-called 'open access'—was confirmed today in a study funded by the European Commission. This new research suggests that open access is reaching the tipping point, with around 50% of scientific papers published in 2011 now available... Read More »

Open Access To Science Helps Us All

Dave Carr and Robert Kiley | New Statesman | April 13, 2012

[...] However, in recent years there has been a growing recognition that the traditional subscription-based access models are not serving the best interests of the research community, and a growing movement to support open-access publishing – in which research papers are freely available to all at the point of use. Read More »

Open Access To Scientific Research Can Save Lives

Peter Suber and Darius Cuplinskas | The Chronicle | December 3, 2012

This year a high-school student in Maryland announced that he had invented a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer. The test costs three cents per use. It works 168 times as fast and more than 400 times as accurately as the best previously existing test. It also may be able to detect ovarian and lung cancers. Read More »

Open Access Week

Staff Writer | Goldsmiths Library Blog | October 21, 2013

This week is open access week, so here is a little introduction to the open access movement in the UK and our institutional repository Goldsmiths Research Online. Read More »

Open Access Week 2012

George Williams | The Chronicle | October 22, 2012

This morning we published Adeline’s interview with with Brian Hole of Ubiquity Press (@ubiquitypress), “a small new London-based digital publisher of peer reviewed, open-access academic journals.” Read More »

Open Access Week 2012 [University of Iowa]

Staff Writer | University of Iowa Libraries | October 22, 2012

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 »

Open Access Week 2013 Starts Today

George Williams | The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 21, 2013

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 »

Open Access Week 2013: A Recap Of This Year’s Global Celebration

Abby Clobridge | Information Today | October 31, 2013

This year’s Open Access Week, a global event that just finished its sixth year, was held Oct. 21–27, 2013. Celebrations of various types were sponsored by libraries, students, researchers, publishers, and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness about open access (OA). [...] Read More »

Open Access Week 2013: The Time For Reform Is Now

Adi Kamdar | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | October 21, 2013

Today kicks off the sixth annual global Open Access Week. Open Access Week is at once a celebration and a call to action. Universities, libraries, organizations, and companies are hosting events all around the world to promote the ideals of open access: free, online availability of and unfettered access to scholarly works. Read More »

Open Access Week 2014

Fabiana Kubke | Building Blogs of Science | October 25, 2013

What do brain machine interfaces and Open Science have in common? They are two examples of concepts that I never thought I would get to see materialised in my lifetime. I was wrong. Read More »

Open Access Week At Harvard, October 22 - 28, 2012: Celebrating Open Access Worldwide

Staff Writer | Harvard | October 16, 2012

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 »