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Spotlight On Open Access At The Smithsonian Libraries
James Smithson bequeathed his fortune to the people of the United States with the clear impetus for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.” The Smithsonian Libraries takes that message to heart by striving to connect ideas and information to you, and all whom we serve. Consider this an overview of Open Access (with capital O and A) and open access (lowercase o & a) here at the Libraries. Long story short: if you have access to the internet, you have access to an increasing number of quality, peer-reviewed journals and scholarly publications (as long as you know where to look).
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Spotlight On Open Access Books At COASP 2012
For the first time, 2012 saw the 4th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) feature an afternoon of sessions entirely dedicated to Open Access books. Read More »
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Springer To Collaborate With Scion On Open Access journal
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science will join the SpringerOpen portfolio Read More »
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Springer To Publish New Open Access Journal With The Korean Society For Micro And Nano Systems
Beginning in March 2013, Springer and the Korean Society for Micro and Nano Systems will partner to publish a new interdisciplinary journal Micro and Nano Systems Letters (MNSL). As a fully sponsored open access journal, it will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio, available on link.springer.com. Read More »
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Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.)
Before Aaron Swartz became the open-access movement's first martyr, Michael Eisen was blowing up the lucrative scientific publishing industry from within. Read More »
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Stellenbosch University to host Berlin 10 Open Access Conference
The tenth yearly Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be taking place on the continent for the first time next week, with Stellenbosch University (SU) hosting the gathering on November 7 and 8. Read More »
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Suber: Leader Of A Leaderless Revolution
What is remarkable about the open access (OA) movement is that despite having no formal structure, no official organization, and no appointed leader, it has (in the teeth of opposition from incumbent publishers) triggered a radical transformation in a publishing system that had changed little in 350 years... Read More »
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Support California's New Open Access Bill
Good news: we are finally seeing real progress toward improving the public's ability to access to the research we pay for. In February, we saw both a White House memorandum and the introduction of bipartisan legislation designed to promote open access to taxpayer-funded research on the federal level. Now California has stepped up to try and secure the same public access rights to state-funded research. Read More »
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Syapse Joins Free The Data! Initiative and Provides Software To Power Participant-centric Hereditary Gene Mutation Data
Syapse, the leader in software for bringing omics into routine medical use, announced that it has joined the Free the Data! initiative. [...] Read More »
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Ten Simple Rules For The Open Development Of Scientific Software
Open-source software development has had significant impact, not only on society, but also on scientific research. Papers describing software published as open source are amongst the most widely cited publications [...]. It is surprising, therefore, that so few papers are accompanied by open software, given the benefits that this may bring. Read More »
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Ten Years after Budapest Open Access Initiative New Recommendations Released
In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health. Read More »
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That Was The Open Access Week That Was
A round-up of some of the issues that got an airing during Open Access (OA) Week and in the days that followed, including more rumination on the implementation and implications of the RCUK OA policy, more bad (and some good) publisher behaviour, ideas for new directions in OA publishing and, finally, an important African perspective on the rumbling debate. Read More »
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The Biodiversity Data Journal: Readable By Humans And Machines
The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) and the associated Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT), launched on 16th of September 2013, offer several innovations - some of them unique - at every stage of the publishing process. The workflow allows for authoring, peer-review and dissemination to take place within the same online, collaborative platform.
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The Case For Interoperability For Open Access Repositories
The purpose of this paper is to provide a high-level overview of interoperability of Open Access repositories, identify the major issues and challenges that need to be addressed, stimulate the engagement of the repository community and launch a process that will lead to the establishment of a COAR roadmap for repository interoperability. Read More »
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The Death Of The Academic Book And The Path To Open Access
Is publishing academic books a dying trade? And if so, are free e-books from universities likely to deal the final blow? Read More »
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