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How Open-Source Software is Flexing its Power

Chris Latterell | Sand Hill | March 12, 2013

Is there a connection between open-source and delivering value in the “connected economy?” Definitely, says Chris Latterell, VP of marketing at software engineering company Open-Xchange. Like his company’s flagship product, OX App Suite, open source is people centric and responsive. In this interview he discusses game-changing open-source trends. Read More »

In Defence Of Open Access Systems

Leslie Chan | The Hindu | December 31, 2012

LESLIE CHAN, champion of the Open Access Initiative, tells G. MAHADEVAN that the traditional journals will lose the battle to Open Access publications. Read More »

In Praise Of Peer Review: A Modest Proposal For Identifying Unscrupulous Open Access Journals

John Willinsky | Slaw | November 4, 2013

I remain indebted to peer review. Sure, I’ve been called a dilettante. Had ideas dismissed as half-baked. Had the floor swept with the derivative nature of my work. Been chastised for treating data as singular. And then the self-inflicted wounds of my own careless error. But having suffered from what appears only at first glance to be the slings and arrows of outrageous peer-review, I stand by this process. Read More »

In the UK, Open Access For All Publicly Funded Research by 2014

Ariel Bogle | Melville House | July 18, 2012

In one of the first moves to address these issues, the British government has unveiled plans to allow all publicly funded scientific research to be openly available by 2014... Read More »

John Bohannon’s Peer-Review Sting Against Science

Mike Taylor | svpow.com | October 3, 2013

An extraordinary study has come to light today, showing just how shoddy peer-review standards are at some journals. Read More »

Library Celebrates Open Access [Utah State University]

Steve Kent | The Utah Statesman | October 23, 2012

This week, librarians at USU are celebrating a trend which is changing the way scientists and researchers spread their findings. Read More »

Limited Funding Hinders Charity Support Of Open Access Publishing

Staff Writer | The Information Daily | October 24, 2013

Charities’ need to justify expenditure to donors is preventing them from practising open access publishing despite supporting its aims, say new study in BMJ Open. Read More »

Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out Of Publishing

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | January 17, 2013

Episciences Project to launch series of community-run, open-access journals. Read More »

Measured Innovation In Peer Review

Steve Kolowich | Inside Higher Ed | November 1, 2012

Conversations about the future of academic publishing often revolve around the pros and cons of open peer review. Would a new mechanism for vetting research that relies on the wisdom of crowds, rather than a select few editors and reviewers, lead to a scholarly renaissance or to chaos? Read More »

New, Open Access Journal Turns Peer-Review Lens Toward Improving The Research Process

Press Release | AcademyHealth | January 17, 2013

AcademyHealth today announced the official launch of eGEMs, a free, peer-reviewed e-publication that will publish innovative ideas and practices using electronic clinical data to advance health systems research and quality improvement, and improve patient and community outcomes. Read More »

Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman Advocates Open Access During Event Monday

Somin Park | The Daily Californian | October 22, 2013

It is time to move away from print journals and toward digital publications, according to UC Berkeley’s most recent Nobel laureate, Randy Schekman, at an open access event Monday evening. Read More »

Nobel Winner Declares Boycott Of Top Science Journals

Ian Sample | The Guardian | December 9, 2013

Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process Read More »

OASPA’s Response To The Recent Article In Science Entitled “Who’s Afraid Of Peer Review?”

Staff Writer | Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) | October 4, 2013

Below is a statement from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) in response to the recent “sting” that was reported in Science in an article entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?” Read More »

Oldest Open-Source Software Kept By Army

Joyce Conant | LeavenworthTimes.com | December 6, 2012

Since 1938, the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., was the center for the United States Army's research efforts in ballistics and vulnerability/lethality analysis. That remained the case until 1992, when BRL was disestablished and its mission, personnel and facilities were incorporated into the newly created U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Read More »

One Size Fits All?: Social Science And Open Access

David Mainwaring | The Disorder of Things | November 14, 2012

The third post in our small series on open access, publication shifts on the horizon and how it all matters to IR and social science, this time by David Mainwaring [...]. Read More »