Open Access

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New Research Estimates Value of Removing DRM Locks

Cory Doctorow | Electronic Frontier Foundation | July 9, 2017

My co-authors and I at the University of Glasgow are investigating how restrictions on interoperability imposed by Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems might impact the market for goods. We are doing this as part of a larger project to better understand the economics of DRM and to figure out what changes would likely occur if the laws were reformed. Our recent working paper is titled ‘How much do consumers value interoperability: Evidence from the price of DVD players’...

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Nine Journals to Become Open Access Under Partnership Between Wiley and Hindawi

Press Release | John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hindawi | June 15, 2016

This new collaboration will see nine Wiley subscription journals converting to open access starting in January 2017. Hindawi will take over the editorial and production workflow for each of the journals within the partnership, which will be hosted on the Hindawi website, allowing them to benefit from the publisher’s experience in publishing high quality journals on an open access basis. Hindawi (hindawi.com) currently publishes over 400 peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of disciplines...

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No Longer ‘Publishing As Usual’

Piers Bocock | ICT Update | June 1, 2013

Despite the spread in use of ICTs in agricultural research (see ICT Update 70) information is still constrained by the way it is published and the degree to which it is open. Piers Bocock of CGIAR shares how his organisation is addressing this. Read More »

Nurturing The Open Access Ecosystem

Marina Kukso | PLoS | September 13, 2012

In the last post of a short series reflecting on the Getting in the Access Loop webinar organised by the Humanitarian Centre, HIFA2015 and PLOS, Marina Kukso discusses the challenges faced by the Open Access movement as it comes of age. Read More »

OK Festival: What Is Open Development?

Anahi Ayala Iacucci | Internews | September 21, 2012

On the third day of the Open Development and Open Knowledge Festival, I spent the entire day in the Open Development track (on Twitter #OpenDev). The first session was an open discussion and debate about what ‘openness’ can add to traditional development approaches, trying to explore different visions. Read More »

ONC’s John Fleming Wants Patients to Have a Single Unified Health record

Evan Sweeney | Fierce Healthcare | June 2, 2017

A senior administrator with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT said he wants patients to have a unified health record that could pull data from various medical providers into a single record. John Fleming, the ONC’s deputy assistant secretary for health technology reform, outlined his vision that would give patients more control of their medical information during the International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy hosted by Georgetown University Law...

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Open access 2013: A year of gaining momentum

Hilda Bastian | Scientific American | December 26, 2013

Was this the year open access for science reached critical mass? Read More »

Open Access Africa Wrap-up

Rebecca Fairburn | BioMed Central Blog | November 19, 2012

Last week was a significant time for open access in Africa. BioMed Central’s third Open Access Africa conference at the University of Cape Town (UCT) was so rich in content that it is hard to do it justice in a blog.

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Open Access Button – that's 'OA Button', not 'Blue Button'

Running into a publisher’s 'paywall' when looking for a recent journal article and/or key findings is a major frustration that many researchers tend to encounter. Students and health advocates David Carroll and Joe McArthur decided to take these dead ends and turn them into something useful. Check out this hot new idea –  the Open Access Button!  Less than 30 days from inception to action - a working prototype of the OA Button. Read More »

Open Access Genetic Screening for Hereditary Breast Cancer Is Feasible and Effective

Press Release | European Society of Human Genetics | May 26, 2017

Ashkenazi Jewish women are known to have a predisposition to the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and BRCA2, but currently genetic testing in this group is limited to women affected by breast and ovarian cancers and those who are unaffected but have a family history of the disease. Ms Sari Lieberman, a genetic counsellor at the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel, will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics tomorrow (Sunday) that offering open-access BRCA testing to Ashkenazi women unaffected by cancer, regardless of their family history, enables the identification of carriers who would otherwise have been missed...

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Open Access in Europe to Big Pharma clinical trial data

Andrew Jack | Financial Times | April 4, 2013

When Guido Rasi took charge of Europe’s medicines’ regulator in 2011 he inherited an explosive dossier that is now poised to transform drug development. Read More »

Open Access Roundup

Abby Clobridge | Information Today Inc. | January 7, 2014

Over the past several weeks, we’ve witnessed a number of announcements, launches, and news stories related to open access (OA). This roundup of top stories includes the launch of a student-developed OA tool, the boycott of “luxury” journals by a Nobel Prize winner and his lab, a new national OA policy, and the debut of a long-awaited, long-planned-for initiative to support gold OA. Read More »

Open Access To Be Celebrated Next Week [Washington University]

Staff Writer | Washington University | October 17, 2012

The Washington University Faculty Senate recently adopted a formal open access resolution that places renewed focus on the dissemination of new knowledge and asks WUSTL faculty to seek out publishers that share a vision of broad digital access to scholarly information. Read More »

Open Access: a profitable choice for publishers

Elena Giglia | Elena Giglia's Blog | October 26, 2012

In 2010 the publisher, Simone Eandi, decided to start a new journal, Reviews in Health Care (http://journals.edizioniseed.it/index.php/rhc), and from the beginning it was in Open Access format. Today the journal counts about 2,500 readers and, for each article, a mean of 50 downloads and 450 online visualisations. The journal is now indexed on the major open access dbases like DOAJ, NewJour, GoogleScholar and many others.

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Open Access: Brought To Book At Last?

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | July 18, 2013

A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf Read More »