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Debating Open Access
Twelve months after the publication of the Finch Report, during which the new RCUK policy on open access has been published, dissected, debated (including by committees in both Houses of Parliament), revised and implemented, it seems an apposite moment to step back and take stock. Read More »
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Degrees Of Disruption
Supporters of open-access journals and massive open online courses have been quick to label their initiatives disruptive, but a recent analysis by a York University professor suggests only one of them has the potential to spark considerable change, while the other is likely to remain an alternative alongside traditional offerings. Read More »
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Did Commercial Journals Use The NYT To Smear Open Access?
A story on the front page of the New York Times a few days ago cleverly smeared open access scholarly publishing as somehow responsible for the rise of low-quality, pseudo-academic conferences and OA journals. Read More »
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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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Discussing The Benefits Of Open Access In Science
Last week, the European Commission pledged to offer free access to publicly funded scientific research and set a goal of making 60 percent of studies and papers produced with taxpayer dollars available by 2016. Read More »
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DNAnexus to Deliver precisionFDA
DNAnexus, the leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, today announced that the company was awarded a research and development contract by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Health Informatics to build precisionFDA, an open source platform for community sharing of genomic information. precisionFDA is a new approach for evaluating bioinformatics workflows, and is an integral part of the agency’s work in understanding diagnostic tests that incorporate next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. FDA’s role under the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative is to review the current regulatory landscape and develop a streamlined approach to evaluating NGS-based diagnostics.
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DOAJ Hits 1.5 MILLION Mark!
DOAJ reaches another milestone in 2013 Read More »
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Doctors Use Social Media For Continuous Medical Education
By rebranding what they do on blogs and Twitter, advocates of Free Open Access Medical Education, or #FOAMed, seek to accelerate medical knowledge sharing.
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Does Green Open Access Rot The Brain?
The title of this post is link bait, of course. Green OA does not rot the brain and it is reckless and irresponsible even to suggest it. Heh. Stranger things, and worse, have happened, even here on the Kitchen, where truth reigns supreme. Read More »
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Does Science Need 'Open Evaluation' Before 'Open Access?'
In an editorial accompanying an ebook titled "Beyond open access: visions for open evaluation of scientific papers by post-publication peer review," Nikolaus Kriegeskorte argues that scientists, not publishers, are in the best position to develop a fair evaluation process for scientific papers. Read More »
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Dove Medical Press Welcomes UK Government Decision To Boost Funding For Open Access To £10 Million
Dove Medical Press welcomes the recently announced decision of the UK government to support open access with a £10 million funding boost by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts. Read More »
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Dr. Dustin Ballard: Do Open Doctor Notes Work?
YOUR DOCTOR gives you a measured assessment of your physical condition. The language is just technical enough to be hard to follow, and the recommendations just oblique enough to seem unconvincing. But you wonder, what if my doctor told me what she really thought — that you were sedentary and overweight, for example. Would that improve your health? Is there any way a doc would want to share such an opinion? Read More »
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Dramatic Growth Of Open Access 2013 First Quarter: Comparisons
This issue features a comparison of open access growth including CC-BY article growth figures supplied by OASPA. [...] Recent research suggests that CC-BY is the preference of a small minority of scholars. Read More »
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access in 2012
2012 was another awesome year for open access!. This post highlights and celebrates just how much open access is available already. This post highlights and celebrates just how much open access is available already. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) cross-searches over 40 million documents in over 2,400 repositories - nearly double the number in just 3 years, demonstrating yet again strong growth in open access archiving. Read More »
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Dutch Universities Dig In For Long Fight Over Open Access
Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge...
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