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Check Out Stability: International Journal Of Security And Development

Steven A. Zyck | Open Access Week | November 5, 2012

...a group of like-minded academics who are committed to solid, peer-reviewed research -- and who want to ensure it isn't shelved away in expensive obscurity -- started Stability: International Journal of Security & Development (www.stabilityjournal.org).

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Clinical Trial Reporting Failures Can Harm Research, Patients

Patrick Skerrett | STAT | December 18, 2015

Hospitals, medical schools, businesses, and even the National Institutes of Health are routinely violating a federal law requiring clinical trials to be reported to the public, a STAT investigation recently found. In response, we asked experts to offer their thoughts on why low rates of clinical trial reporting is a problem, and what can be done about it...

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COAR Response To EC Communication And Recommendation

Press Release | COAR | July 17, 2012

COAR acknowledges and very much  supports the open access vision of the EU Commission as a worldwide trend and will join the EU Commission effort  to develop an interoperable and sustainable global scientific infrastructure and to inspire other countries in the world to develop their own open access policies.

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Concordia University Librarian Checks Out Open Access

Press Release | Concordia University (CU) | January 30, 2013

From Wikipedia to shareware, the Internet has made information and software more widely available than ever. At the heart of this explosion is the simple idea that information should be open and free for anyone. Yet with publishers charging exorbitant fees for subscriptions to academic journals, university libraries are struggling to keep up. Read More »

Coronavirus Lessons From the Asteroid That Didn't Hit Earth

Benny Peiser and Andrew Monfort | Wall Street Journal | April 2, 2020

London: The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically demonstrated the limits of scientific modeling to predict the future. The most consequential coronavirus model, produced by a team at Imperial College London, tipped the British government, which had until then pursued a cautious strategy, into precipitate action, culminating in the lockdown under which we are all currently laboring. With the Imperial team talking in terms of 250,000 to 510,000 deaths in the U.K. and social media aflame with demands for something to be done, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no other option. But last week, a team from Oxford University put forward an alternative model of how the pandemic might play out, suggesting a much less frightening future and a speedy end to the current nightmare.

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Could Opening Up The Doors To The World’s Medical Research Save Healthcare?

John Willinsky | The Health Care Blog | May 3, 2013

What if you had access to all of the medical research in the world? Or better yet, what if the physician treating your particularly complex or rare condition had access to the latest research? Or what if a public health organization in your community could access that research to inform policymakers of measures to advance public health? Read More »

Critics Say Sting On Open-Access Journals Misses Larger Point

Paul Basken | The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 4, 2013

Perhaps months from now, when the dust settles and academics really look back at it, they’ll find some hard lessons in the elaborate Science magazine exposé this week by the journalist John Bohannon. Read More »

Digital Access To Knowledge: Research Chat With Harvard’s Peter Suber

John Wihbey | Journalist's Resource | October 16, 2012

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 »

Does Science Need 'Open Evaluation' Before 'Open Access?'

Staff Writer | Science Codex | November 14, 2012

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 »

EPFL Startup Explores New Directions In Open Access

Press Release | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | November 9, 2012

The EPFL startup Frontiers announced today that it is launching 13 new open-access journals in fields including Physics, Bioengineering, and Public Health. These new titles will more than double Frontiers' current repertoire of twelve online journals whose peer-reviewed, scientific articles are immediately accessible, free of charge, to anyone. Read More »

Explorer Allows Public Access to Results Of Sea Monster Search

Jørn Hurum | National Geographic | November 4, 2012

NG Emerging Explorer Jørn Hurum recently returned from an expedition to Spitsbergen Island in the Arctic Circle excavating the remains of ancient marine reptiles worthy of the most fantastic Norse legends. Read about their exciting adventure here on Explorers Journal through their frequent updates from the field. Get the results of the search in the Norwegian Journal of Geology. Read More »

FASTR Aims To Speed Open Access To Government-Funded Research

Meredith Schwartz | Library Journal | February 21, 2013

[...] If passed, FASTR would require government agencies with annual extramural research expenditures of more than $100 million make electronic manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles based on their research freely available on the Internet within six months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Read More »

Frontiers Is Featured In The Prestigious Nature Magazine

Press Release | Frontiers | July 7, 2013

Frontiers, a community driven open-access publisher and research networking platform for scientists, is featured on the inside cover of this week's Nature, with endorsements from Nobel laureates and other leading researchers. [...] Read More »

Frontiers Launches A New Open-Access Journal In Energy Research

Press Release | About NPG | August 29, 2013

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 »

Frontiers Launches New Open-Access Journal: Frontiers In Pediatrics

Press Release | Frontiers | December 21, 2012

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 »