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Sage launches open access Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine

Press Release | Healthcare News | May 25, 2013

SAGE has announced the launch of a new international open access journal, the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine (OJSM). Read More »

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Read More »

Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access

Springer Business Media Staff | Information Today | July 16, 2013

Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access (OA) journals has increased over the past year. Read More »

The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishing

Stephen Curry | The Guardian | October 22, 2012

A new study shows that the rise of open access publishing of academic research is faster than anyone had previously realised...The academic publishing game has changed irrevocably. Read More »

The latest update to the Hospital Safety Score for U.S. hospitals

Press Release | The Leapfrog Group | November 28, 2012

The latest update to the Hospital Safety Score (A, B, C, D or F scores) assigned to U.S. hospitals based on preventable medical errors, injuries, accidents, and infections, shows that hospitals are making some progress, but many still have a long way to go to reliably deliver safe health care. Read More »

The Next Decade for 'Creative Commons'

Creative Commons just celebrated its 10th birthday. If you go to their web site you can see the "Annual Report from Creative Commons", which highlights many of its accomplishments over the past decade. They have also posted a document entitled "The Future of Creative Commons" that lays out a roadmap for moving forward through the next decade. Read More »

Turning Paywalls into Opportunity: The Open Access Button has Arrived

Heather Joseph | Open Access News | November 26, 2013

The Open Access Button, brainchild of undergraduate medical students David Carroll and Joseph McArthur, was designed to tackle the frustration shared by millions of individuals who search for research articles online, only to have their progress slowed – and often halted – by paywall pages requesting payment in exchange for viewing the article. Read More »

Welcome Trust Library

Welcome Trust Library is one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history. They also offer a growing collection of material relating to contemporary medicine and biomedical science in society. Since 2010 the Library been engaged in a large scale digitization program that reflects its commitment to global 'open access' to its collections.

Why Is Science Behind A Paywall?

Alex Mayyasi | GIZMODO - Australia | May 13, 2013

Although the act of publishing seems to entail sharing your research with the world, most published papers sit behind paywalls. The journals that publish them charge thousands of dollars per subscription, putting access out of reach to all but the most minted universities. Read More »

Open Access Week 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 27, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Everywhere

Open Access Week 2013 is a global event, now in its 6th year. The goal is to help promote Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research around the world.

'Open Access' to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. Read More »