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NOW AVAILABLE: March 31 Issue Of "Dramatic Growth Of Open Access"
The March 31 issue of Dramatic Growth of Open Access features a comparison of open access growth including CC-BY article growth figures supplied by OASPA. [...] Recent research suggests that CC-BY is the preference of a small minority of scholars. Read More »
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OASPA’s Response To The Recent Article In Science Entitled “Who’s Afraid Of Peer Review?”
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 »
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OMICS Group Declares The Acquisition Of The Journal-Immunome Research
OMICS Group Inc., a scientific organization that drives the progress of research through open access journals, announced a landmark agreement with Nikolai Petrovsky Publishing for acquisition of Immunome Research [...]. Read More »
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OMICS Group International Stretches Its Horizons By Venturing Into Outsourcing
OMICS Group International ties up with 100 global scientific societies and expands partnership with more associations. Read More »
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OMICS Publishing Group And International Society For Ceramics In Medicine are Making Research On Bioceramics Open Access
Strengthened by its Open Access initiatives, OMICS Group is pleased to publish the Bioceramics Development & Applications from 2013 onwards, the flagship journal of International Society for Ceramics in Medicine. 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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Open Access 2.0: Access To Scholarly Publications Moves To A New Phase
What publishing does well — traditional publishing, that is, where you pay for what you read, whether in print or online — is command attention. This is not a trivial matter in a world that seemingly generates more and more information effortlessly, but still has the poor reader stuck with something close to the Biblical lifespan of three score and ten and a clock that stubbornly insists that a day is 24 hours and no more... Read More »
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Open Access Africa: Showcasing African Research
In November 2012 the third Open Access Africa event, hosted by BioMed Central and the University of Cape Town, will discuss the implications of open access for African research. Read More »
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Open Access And Scientific Breakthroughs
A few days ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article by Peter Suber and Darius Cuplinskas, daringly entitled “Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives”. It relates the case of 15 year-old Jack Andraka, who recently announced he had invented a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer. Read More »
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Open Access And The Duty Of Higher Education
I think we all agree higher education is far too expensive. One could even argue that ...higher education's current model is unsustainable. It's broken, and it's a hoarder. Higher education doesn't hoard typical items, yet the entire institution of higher education should be on A&E's television show Hoarders. Read More »
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Open Access And The Looming Crisis In Science
This article on the open access and science by Björn Brembs is part of a series marking the launch of The Conversation in the UK. Our foundation essays are longer than our usual comment and analysis articles and take a wider look at key issues affecting society. Read More »
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Open Access Benefits Students [North Georgia College and State University]
In honor of International Open Access Week, the Library and Technology Center held a conference on open access initiatives at NGCSU. Read More »
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Open Access Boosts Journal Availabilty
Over the past several weeks, Baker-Berry Library has hosted a variety of events aimed at informing students and faculty about the open access movement, a national campaign to make scholarship freely accessible worldwide. The events culminated in Open Access Week, which concludes Friday. Read More »
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Open Access Comes To Africa
Hundreds of scholars gathered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, last month to build a stronger case for making the results of scientific research freely accessible worldwide. Calling scientific knowledge the motor of economic development, delegates to the international gathering, the Berlin 10 Conference on Open Access, urged scientists to radically change how they evaluate and communicate their work. Read More »
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Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old Jack Andraka To Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic
Open Access Empowers 16-year-old to Create Breakthrough Cancer Diagnostic: An Interview with Jack Andraka and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health Read More »
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