Bernard Rentier

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A Look At Paris Open Access Week 2012

Staff Writer | Open Access Week | November 5, 2012

Open access is a topic as important for the French research community as for any other, and, yet, no major events to mark International Open Access Week had ever been held in Paris—until now. Read More »

Funders Punish Open-Access Dodgers

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | April 9, 2014

For years, two of the world’s largest research funders — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom — have issued a steady stream of incentives to coax academics to abide by their open-access policies.  Now they are done with just dangling carrots. Both institutions are bringing out the sticks: cautiously and discreetly cracking down on researchers who do not make their papers publicly available.

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