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SCFD Funds Open Access For Arts Lovers

Megan Quinn | Broomfield Enterprise | February 10, 2013

Taxes paid by Broomfield residents, others in seven-county district, provide free entry at facilities across state
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Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)

Gina Kolata | New York Times | April 7, 2013

The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. Read More »

Scientific Data Should Be Shared: An Open Letter To The ARC

Alex O. Holcombe and Matthew Todd | The Conversation | September 26, 2012

Science (real science, not the summaries in popular books and the media) is needlessly closed to the outside world. Worse, it is closed within itself, with every lab its own silo, and little sharing of data or materials. Read More »

Scientific Publishers Offer Solution To White House's Public Access Mandate

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science Insider | June 4, 2013

A group of scientific publishers today announced a plan for allowing the public to read taxpayer-funded research papers for free by linking to journals' own websites... Read More »

Self-Preservation Chokes Open Science, Kills The Patient

Pam Baker | FierceBigData | September 9, 2013

Arguably the one area that stands to benefit the most from open and shared data is science. Yet researchers are reluctant to do it. Why? Because the reward model for scientific discovery is chaining them to dollars they can't pocket otherwise. [...] Read More »

Sequester Causes 'Brain Drain' Of U.S. Researchers

Ashley Gold | FierceHealthIT | September 25, 2013

One in five U.S. scientists have considered moving overseas to continue their research due to being hamstrung by the federal budget sequester, according to a new report called Unlimited Potential, Vanishing Opportunity, published by a coalition of 16 science organizations. Read More »

Shifting Interstellar Wind Shows Larger Implications

Iam Bloom | Las Vegas Guardian Express | September 7, 2013

A new study has shown, over the course of the last 40 years, that interstellar winds have changed direction, if only slightly. The study took data from the 1970’s onward from eleven different satellites. This change in the direction of the Interstellar Wind shows larger implications than one may realize. Read More »

Shouldn’t All Those Internet Scientists Be Curing Cancer?

Klint Finley | Wired | April 29, 2013

[...] In 2008, Mike Miller and two other MIT physicists founded Cloudant, a company that offers a database service that lets you store information on the net. For years, he led a double life, working both as chief scientist for Cloudant and as an assistant professor at the University of Washington. But in 2012, he resigned from the university, in favor of the internet. Read More »

Six Funders Working To Set Science Free

Tate Williams | Inside Philanthropy | December 3, 2014

Sharing information is easier than ever, but much scientific research remains maddeningly walled-off in publications charging thousands of dollars for access. Some prominent funders are part of a growing movement to make science more open...

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SMART On The Agenda At AMIA 2012

Staff Writer | SMART Platforms | November 3, 2012

The AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium begins today in Chicago, where it is currently “Informatics Week” as declared by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Read More »

Smartphones Open Up Science To Everyone

Staff Writer | Laboratory Equipment | December 18, 2013

That smartphone in your purse or pocket isn’t just for viewing movies and checking Facebook. By putting data collection, visualization and learning in the palm of your hand, it’s helping to transform science education and open up unprecedented opportunities for citizen science. Read More »

SPARC 2014 Open Access Meeting Speakers Accounced

Press Release | Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) | January 16, 2014

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is pleased to announce a strong slate of speakers for its upcoming Open Access Meeting, to be held March 3 and 4 in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Philip Bourne, the newly-appointed Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health, will deliver the opening keynote address. Read More »

Springer To Collaborate With Scion On Open Access journal

Press Release | Scion, Springer Science+Business Media, New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science | January 17, 2013

New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science will join the SpringerOpen portfolio Read More »

Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.)

Michael Mechanic | Mother Jones | September 1, 2013

Before Aaron Swartz became the open-access movement's first martyr, Michael Eisen was blowing up the lucrative scientific publishing industry from within. Read More »

STEMI: DIY open access spider robot that teaches kids 3D modeling, robotics and code

Kira | 3ders.org | October 26, 2015

STEMI is a hexapod robot that is controlled with a smartphone app and moves quite like a spider. More than just a robot, however, STEMI is intended to be a learning experience, teaching users aged 13 and up the basics of 3D modeling, electronics, Arduino programming and mobile app programming—the kinds of skills they’ll require to shape our future. In the future, 3D printable custom covers will also be made available for those wanting to learn 3D printing technology. Though it is primarily intended for children, there’s no reason adult tinkerers can’t learn a little something, or just have fun with it, too.

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