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Friday Shutdown Reader: The Impending Meaningless Deaths Of Lab Animals
The prospect for research animals is grim at best. The shutdown removes all purpose from their sacrifice. Read More »
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From Antarctica To America, US Turns Out The Lights On Science Research
Two weeks of sliced budgets and suspensions following Congressional gridlock have been a disastrous setback to a variety of American science programs, wasting millions of dollars and months if not years of research. Read More »
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From Crowdfunding To Open Access, Startups Are Experimenting With Academic Research
These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a handful of years. Read More »
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G8 Science Ministers Endorse Open Access
Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research. Read More »
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Gates Foundation Announces World’s Strongest Policy On Open Access Research
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the world’s strongest policy in support of open research and open data. If strictly enforced, it would prevent Gates-funded researchers from publishing in well-known journals such as Nature and Science...
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Guest Blog: Why I Publish Open Access
Joshua Drew, a lecturer in marine conservation biology at Columbia University, offers a personal perspective on Open Access publishing from a researcher’s point of view. Having now moved to a policy of publishing entirely in Open Access journals, he talks to BioMed Central about the benefits that this can bring to researchers wishing to get the most from their publications, together with some of the challenges that lie ahead Read More »
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Guest Post – The Open Access Button
For the past few months, like chickens on eggs we have been sitting on what we think is a game changing idea. We’ve been sitting on it because despite trying as two student activists, we just haven’t found the help we need to make it a reality. So to preface what you’re about to read – we need your help. Read More »
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Hacking Open Access: Sustainable Publication For Humanities
Although the open access movement has been going strong for over 10 years in the areas of natural sciences and medical sciences, the humanities and social sciences have lagged behind. However, OA is not only an exclusive STEM approach anymore, the humanities are also considering how they can transition in this direction...
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Half Of Taxpayer Funded Research Will Soon Be Available To The Public
Proponents of the open access model for academic research notched a huge victory Thursday night when Congress passed a budget that will make about half of taxpayer-funded research available to the public. Read More »
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Help Spark Girls' Interest In STEM Careers: TopCoder Hosting $10,000 STEM-Themed Poster Contest
TopCoder, Google and the National Center for Women & Information Technology collaborate to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics Read More »
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Hiding Your Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral
As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable Read More »
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High-Powered Lasers Deliver Fusion Energy Breakthrough
A new experiment releases more energy than is pumped into fuel—a major milestone—but a long journey still remains for sustainable energy from fusion Read More »
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High-Quality Science Benefits All
Open access publishing can help researchers in the developing world to participate more actively in the scientific community. Alexander Brown from Springer shares his experience. Read More »
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Highlights From Open Access Week 2012 At Indiana University
This year’s Open Access Week events at Indiana University-Bloomington were a resounding success. Due in large part to new cross-campus partnerships, the Scholarly Communication department was able to bring a series of six events to students and faculty from October 22-26. Read More »
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Houston VA Researcher Honored With Prestigious Presidential Award
A patient safety researcher at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston has been named a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Read More »
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