Academic Journals

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How Journals Like Nature, Cell And Science Are Damaging Science

Randy Schekman | The Guardian | December 9, 2013

The incentives offered by top journals distort science, just as big bonuses distort banking. I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best. Read More »

How Open Access Scholarship Saves Lives

Nella Letizia | American Libraries | October 22, 2013

Gabriella Reznowski’s son, Xavier, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder in 2012, 14 long years after she first noticed the developmental delays and helped him ride out the seizures caused by the disorder. The most current information that describes it is only found in research journals, which often require subscriptions to access... Read More »

In Defence Of Open Access Systems

Leslie Chan | The Hindu | December 31, 2012

LESLIE CHAN, champion of the Open Access Initiative, tells G. MAHADEVAN that the traditional journals will lose the battle to Open Access publications. Read More »

In the UK, Open Access For All Publicly Funded Research by 2014

Ariel Bogle | Melville House | July 18, 2012

In one of the first moves to address these issues, the British government has unveiled plans to allow all publicly funded scientific research to be openly available by 2014... Read More »

Introducing T-stór – Teagasc’s New Open Access Repository

Press Release | Teagasc | January 7, 2013

Teagasc has launched its newly developed Open Access repository, which makes Teagasc research papers freely available online.

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Letter: Open Access Would Cut Costs At Colorado University

Rachel Powers | Colorado Daily | October 17, 2012

[...] As a flagship university often at the center of local and national debate, [Colorado University] is a world-class institution that aims to prepare its students and support its faculty in relevant, cutting-edge research. However, under the strain of exorbitant academic journal subscription costs, our university is at times unable to provide students and faculty with access to the research articles they need. Read More »

Let’s Start Talking About Open Access

Sean Guillory | Sean's Russia Blog | January 13, 2013

[...] We academics rarely think about our work as a commodity, the mechanisms through which the public is denied access, and the profits corporations make by selling that access to mostly cash strapped public universities at exorbitant prices. But Swartz’s death is an indication that academic work is a high stakes game that can leave many of us with blood on our hands. Read More »

Libraries Promote Open Access To Academic Journals [University of Minnesota]

Tyler Gieseke | Minnesota Daily | October 23, 2012

The smattering of orange garb on campus isn’t in preparation of Halloween, it’s University of Minnesota students and staff promoting the sixth annual Open Access Week . Read More »

Mailman School Adopts An Open Access Policy For Its Published Research

Press Release | Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) | May 1, 2013

The Mailman School of Public Health is joining a growing movement among universities and research institutions to make scholarly research available free to the public online. The Mailman School is the first school at the university and one of the first of U.S. schools of public health to adopt an open access resolution... Read More »

Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out Of Publishing

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | January 17, 2013

Episciences Project to launch series of community-run, open-access journals. Read More »

New Bill Helps Expand Public Access To Scientific Knowledge

Adi Kamdar and Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | February 15, 2013

Internet users around the world got a Valentine's Day present yesterday in the form of new legislation that requires U.S. government agencies to improve public access to federally funded research. Read More »

New Research On Open Access And The “Superstar Effect”

Meredith Kahn | MPublishing | June 7, 2013

Mark McCabe, a research investigator at the University of Michigan School of Information, and Christopher Snyder, a faculty member in Economics at Dartmouth College, have published a new study of the impact of open access on citation rates for science journal content. Read More »

Nobel Winner Declares Boycott Of Top Science Journals

Ian Sample | The Guardian | December 9, 2013

Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process Read More »

Nobelist And Editor Of Open-Access Journal Boycotts Top Science Journals

Nick DeSantis | The Chronicle of Higher Education | December 10, 2013

Randy W. Schekman, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who was one of three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has declared a boycott of top science journals such as Cell, Nature, and Science, The Guardian reported. Read More »

Northern Illinois Univ. Libraries Launches Open Access Fund

Drew VandeCreek | NIU Today | March 4, 2013

Northern Illinois Univiverswity (NIU) Libraries has launched a pilot Open Access Fund that will provide small grants to faculty and graduate students to help defray the upfront costs associated with open access publishing. Read More »