Tim Gowers
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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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An Academic Spring?
A successful protest against Elsevier demonstrates that populist rebellions have a place within the information-sharing community. Read More »
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Hiding Your Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral
As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable Read More »
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Life After Elsevier: Making Open Access to Scientific Knowledge a Reality
Academic publishing is in the midst of an upheaval. The internet has transformed the ability to disseminate knowledge, a capacity once exclusive to publishers. Despite this, the exorbitant profit margins of academic publishers – who often do not pay their authors, editors and reviewers – continue to grow unchecked while library budgets shrink as a percentage of university spending. Read More »
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Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out Of Publishing
Episciences Project to launch series of community-run, open-access journals. Read More »
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One Size Fits All?: Social Science And Open Access
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 »
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Re-inventing Academic Publishing: 'Diamond' Open Access Titles That Are Free To Read And Free To Publish
As Techdirt has been reporting, the idea of providing open access to publicly-funded research is steadily gaining ground. One of the key moments occurred almost exactly a year ago, when the British mathematician Tim Gowers announced that he would no longer have anything to do with the major academic publisher Elsevier... Read More »
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