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Elsevier Launches New Open Access Journal In Biomedicine: Journal Of Clinical And Translational Endocrinology
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access research publication - Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology (JCTE). Read More »
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EU Commission: Pilot Launched To Open Up Publicly Funded Research Data
Researchers from projects participating in the pilot have been asked to make the underlying data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications and other scientific information available for use by other researchers, innovative industries and citizens. This will lead to better and more efficient science, as well as improved transparency for society [...]. Read More »
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European Union Pushing Ahead in Support of Open Science
April saw lots of activity on the open science front in the European Union. On April 19, the European Commission officially announced its plans to create an “Open Science Cloud”. Accompanying this initiative, the Commission stated it will require that scientific data produced by projects under Horizon 2020 (Europe’s €80 billion science funding program) be made openly available by default. Making open data the default will ensure that the scientific community, companies, and the general public can enjoy broad access (and reuse rights) to data generated by European funded scientific projects.
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Expensive Journal Subscriptions Must Pave Way Towards Open Access Information
In order to do some research for this article, I went to JSTOR and searched, ‘‘the high cost of scholarly journals.” On the side of the page was written, “Your access to JSTOR provided by Bowdoin College.” Read More »
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Federal Spending Bill Expands Research Funding With Open Access Mandate, Restores IMLS Funding
The omnibus spending bill signed into law by President Obama on January 17 has plenty of wrinkles and details, but one of them is a change that expands the number of federal agencies operating under a mandate to make research they fund available to the public after one year. Read More »
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Fracking – Suicide Capitalism Poisons The Earth’s Fresh Water Supplies
[...] Governments across the world are triumphantly declaring that gas fracking is the solution to our rapacious energy needs. Yet as each month goes by new studies emerge in the United States of how this industry is poisoning water supplies and posing a grave threat to public health. Read More »
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From Antarctica To America, US Turns Out The Lights On Science Research
Two weeks of sliced budgets and suspensions following Congressional gridlock have been a disastrous setback to a variety of American science programs, wasting millions of dollars and months if not years of research. Read More »
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G-8 Conference Highlights Importance Of Open Data In Ag
The G-8 Open Data For Agriculture Conference kicked off with an announcement from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on the new virtual community launched on Data.gov. Read More »
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G-8 Seeks Apps For Agriculture
The U.S. government launched a new agriculture data community on Monday during a special Group of 8 conference in Washington aimed at using open data to produce better crops and more efficient markets. Read More »
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Geoghegan-Quinn: 'Open Access Is The Default'
European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn tells DW why Open Access to new scientific research is vital for the public, and why traditional publishers know it's time to change. Read More »
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Health Hack 2014-The Power of Open Source, Open Data, and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
ThoughtWorks, an agile developement and design company, hosted and sponsored (among other sponsors, like Red Hat) the second annual Health Hack in Melbourne, bringing researchers together with technologists at their office in Melbourne’s central business district for 48 hours to create software that solved a problem in the health sciences. All the code developed at Health Hack would be released under an open source license, and in most cases, took advantage of some form of open data...
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How Are Open Access And MOOCS Disrupting The Academic Community In Different Ways?
New article in SAGE Open compares and contrasts the disruptive tensions of open-access publishing with MOOCs Read More »
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How Citizens Become Scientists with Open Hardware
Eymund Diegel, a research coordinator for Gowanus Canal Conservancy, shares this tidbit during the first clip of the new Open Source Stories documentary, "The Science of Collective Discovery." He's setting out in a canoe on an inner-city canal that is polluted and struggling to get the help it needs. That's the theme of citizen science it seems: people and places in need who are not getting the help and resources they deserve taking matters into their own hands. Why are they not getting the help they need in the first place? The reason is shockingly simple yet a typical problem: Where's the evidence?
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How Gurgaon Based Startup Knimbus Helps Scientists Share Findings and Connect with Peers
Melding together the features of popular social networking sites, a fledgling startup in Gurgaon has built a search and collaboration platform that aims to knock down the ivory towers confining global scientific research. Read More »
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How Open Access Scholarship Saves Lives
Gabriella Reznowski’s son, Xavier, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder in 2012, 14 long years after she first noticed the developmental delays and helped him ride out the seizures caused by the disorder. The most current information that describes it is only found in research journals, which often require subscriptions to access... Read More »
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