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Academic Spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution
Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge. Read More »
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Advanced Open Access Publishing Model
There are two main modes of open access publishing – Green Open Access, where the author has the right to provide free access to the article outside the publisher's web site in a repository or on his/her own website, and Gold Open Access, where articles are available for free download directly from the publisher on the day of publication. Read More »
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After Aaron, Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry
Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He perceived an injustice in which scientific research lies behind expensive paywalls despite being funded by the taxpayer. The taxpayer ends up paying twice for the same research: once to fund it and a second time to read it... Read More »
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After Ten Years Of Publishing, What’s Next For PLOS?
At our ten year mark as a publisher of Open Access journals, PLOS announces a year-long series of events to recognize and advance the innovations brought about through the adoption of Open Access publishing. These activities will target both the scientific community and the public at large. Read More »
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Agroecology Should Be At The Core Of USDA’s Mission
The comment period recently closed on the USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Action Plan Draft, which responded to informal and formal consultations with internal and external advisors and stakeholders, and “lessons learned from implementation of Farm Bill provisions.” It refines the initial REE Action Plan, which was released in February of 2012. Read More »
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An Open Source Solution For The Quantified Self Trifecta
The last five years have been redefining for the quantified self movement. Gone are the days that self monitoring was limited to pedometers and food diaries. [...] Over the years, this consumer-driven demand has led to a groundswell of technological advancements. The advancements in quantified self technology seem to be converging on a trifecta of quantified health: activity, vitals, and calories. Read More »
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Announcing the Recipients For The Accelerating Science Award Program
The three award recipients for the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) were announced today in Washington, DC at the Open Access Week kickoff event hosted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the World Bank. Read More »
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Antibiotic Use In Chickens: Responsible For Hundreds Of Human Deaths?
In the long back and forth between science and agriculture over the source of antibiotic resistance in humans — Due to antibiotic overuse on farms, or in human medicine? — one question has been stubbornly hard to answer. If antibiotic-resistant bacteria do arise on farms, do they leave the farm and circulate in the wider world? And if they do, how much damage do they do? Read More »
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Argentina Passes Open Access Act For Publicly Funded Research
The Congress of Argentina recently passed a landmark law making publicly funded science and technology research publications free and open access. Read More »
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Argentina Takes Steps Towards Open Access Law
Argentina is a step closer to becoming the first country to pass legislation to make all publicly funded research available in open access repositories. Read More »
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ASAP Awards – Interview With Daniel Mietchen
The names of the six finalists for the ASAP awards are now out, and I was pleased to see Daniel Mietchen’s name in the list. Daniel Mietchen, Raphael Wimmer and Nils Dagsson Moskopp have been working on a really valuable project. There was an opportunity in exploiting open access literature to illustrate articles in Wikipedia. Read More »
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Asia’s Leading Oncology Journal Cancer Science Adopts Open Access
From January 1, 2014, all newly published articles will be open access and free to view, download and share. Read More »
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Assembling Living Tissue With 3D Maglev Tech: A Biohacker’s Dream Come True
The handmaiden of scientific discovery is a new tool. Good researchers build their own instruments and nowadays the best among them often seek to commercialize their successes for others to expand upon. Nothing says look at what my instrument can do better in the the age of commercial science than a new discovery... Read More »
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Australia's Chief Scientist Includes Open Access In STEM Vision
Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb has presented recommendations to the country’s parliament for a national strategy on research in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Amongst other things, his report highlighted the role that open access could play...
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Beall’s List Of Predatory Publishers 2013
The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts. Read More »
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