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Save The Date: Oct. 21 Open Access Week 2013 Kick Off Event At The World Bank And Online: Redefining Impact
SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank have announced they will co-sponsor the kickoff event for Open Access Week 2013 on Monday October 21st in Washington, DC. Read More »
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Scaling Up Health Knowledge at European Level Requires Sharing Integrated Data
...Dr Menditto continues "Combining databases from multiple countries exploiting common structural elements will help increasing the cohorts both on numerical and geographical coverage aspects. At the moment there is not a gold standard to perform multiple healthcare database integration among different countries and different health systems. The EIP-AHA represents an opportunity to compare practices, identify common needs and establish good practices and harmonized approaches with a view to maximize the effective exploitation of large data sets and provide the basis for studying population cohorts at European level...
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Scientists Are Accidentally Helping Poachers Drive Rare Species to Extinction
If you open Google and start typing “Chinese cave gecko”, the text will auto-populate to “Chinese cave gecko for sale” – just US$150, with delivery. This extremely rare species is just one of an increasingly large number of animals being pushed to extinction in the wild by animal trafficking. What’s shocking is that the illegal trade in Chinese cave geckoes began so soon after they were first scientifically described in the early 2000s. It’s not an isolated case; poachers are trawling scientific papers for information on the location and habits of new, rare species...
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Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing
Last month the European Union offered a bold and striking call for all scientific literature to be made available to the world free of charge. Many questions remain regarding how such a vision can be made into reality, especially where the funding for such a mandate will come from. Such calls, happening amidst a sea change in the open access debate, offer a powerful moment of reflection into why the vast majority of scholarly research is still walled off from the public that largely pays for it...
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SPARC Announces ‘Generation Open’ As Theme For 2014 International Open Access Week
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that the theme for this year's International Open Access Week is "Generation Open". The theme will highlight the importance of students and early career researchers as advocates for change in the short-term, through institutional and governmental policy, and as the future of the Academy upon whom the ultimate success of the Open Access movement depends...
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Spread the Momentum with Open Access Week
This week is Open Access Week, celebrating its fifth year of helping academic and research communities learn more about the benefits of open access and inspiring wider open participation. Read More »
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The Dutch Presidency Rises to the Occasion: 15 Council Conclusions That Will Set the Way Forward for R&I in the European Union
Today, the EU Member State Ministers responsible for Research have adopted conclusions that will set the way forward for research and innovation. These conclusions are the result of the exemplary Dutch Presidency of the EU Council. A Presidency that has put research high on the agenda and has made its actions match its words by delivering on its priorities. The Council conclusions set the course of action on the three main priorities identified by the Dutch Presidency in research and innovation...
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The Future Of Open Access: Why Has Academia Not Embraced The Internet Revolution?
More than any other technology, the web has revolutionized access to the world’s information, putting everything from recipes to encyclopedias to books to news at the fingertips of anyone with an internet connection anywhere on the planet. The web’s role in democratizing access to global information has made it a poster child for the power of technology to advance society. Read More »
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The Future of Scientific Discovery Relies on Open Science Models
Ross Mounce is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bath studying the use of fossils in phylogeny and phyloinformatics, completing his PhD at the University of Bath last year. Ross was one of the first Panton Fellows and is an active member of the Open Knowledge Foundation, particularly the Open Science Working Group. He is an advocate for open science, and he is actively working on content mining academic publications to reuse scientific research in meta-analyses to gain higher level insights in evolutionary patterns... Read More »
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The growth of open access journals
The 6th annual open access week is upon us, and one of the topics of particular interest to BMC Medicine is how open access (OA) publishing has been developing over the last decade. Read More »
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The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishing
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 »
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The Internet's 25 Years And Future With Open Source
What began as ARPANET back in 1969, has become the Internet as we know it today. This year on March 12 marked 25 years of the World Wide Web. It all got started when...
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The Public Domain Still Needs Idealism
In the current startup universe, there’s still a lot of chatter about changing the world, an objective that has become so cliché—and ridiculed—that it’s easy to forget that those voicing this desire genuinely, vehemently believe it. From the outside, the prospect of a world-changing software product is either very exciting or completely delusional, depending on who’s talking...Idealism about technology as a democratizing force currently looks a lot like defense: protecting digital civil liberties, and fighting against further erosion. This is the side that Justin Peters is most committed to documenting in his book The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, a partial biography of the late activist and Open Access advocate...
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The Road to a Career in Open Source and Science
My journey from bench scientist to open science software developer and how I develop better tools for open, reproducible scientific research. Read More »
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The tranSMART Foundation to Highlight Its Award-Winning Open-Source Knowledge Management Platform at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced it will be highlighting the tranSMART platform v1.2 at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo April 21-23, 2015 in Boston, Mass. The platform is a finalist for both the Best of Show and Best Practices Awards. In addition to a presentation by the Foundation's CEO, Keith O. Elliston, Ph.D., the Foundation will also be providing demos in its booth (#113) and hosting a Community Meeting and its 3C Committee Meetings at the Bio-IT World Conference.
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