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QScience Now Publishing Open Access Ebooks
QScience has published it first open access ebook, ‘An Islamic Modification of the Person-Centered Counseling Approach’ by Aisha Salman Al-Thani of Qatar University. This book explores the possibility of applying a modified person-centered counseling approach (PCA) as a nondirective way of helping and supporting Muslim clients in the state of Qatar [...]. Read More »
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RCUK Announces Block Grants For Universities To Aid Drives To Open Access To Research Outputs
Research Councils UK has today, 8th November, announced the details of the block grant funding mechanism that it is introducing to aid implementation of its policy on Open Access that was announced in July and is due to come into effect in April 2013. Read More »
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Re-inventing Academic Publishing: 'Diamond' Open Access Titles That Are Free To Read And Free To Publish
As Techdirt has been reporting, the idea of providing open access to publicly-funded research is steadily gaining ground. One of the key moments occurred almost exactly a year ago, when the British mathematician Tim Gowers announced that he would no longer have anything to do with the major academic publisher Elsevier... Read More »
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Reading Diary: Open Access by Peter Suber
First, lets get the important stuff out of the way. Peter Suber’s book Open Access is an important book. You should read it, you should buy (or recommend) a copy for your library. You should buy a hundred boxes and give a copy to every faculty member at your institution. Read More »
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Reading Diary: Open Access: What You Need To Know Now By Walt Crawford
Sometimes we Open Access advocates tend to assume everybody is already on our side. You know, all our librarian and scientist colleagues out there. Surely by now they’ve seen the light. They understand the main issues and flavours of OA, can ably summarize the major arguments for OA and refute the major complaints against. Read More »
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Reasons To Go For Open Access: Perspectives From A Clinician And A Librarian
In recognition of Open Access week, Dr Pascal Meier an interventional cardiologist from University College London and Yale Medical School, and Whitney Townsend, the coordinator of the Health Sciences Executive Research Services at University of Michigan, provide their views on the benefits of open access publishing. Read More »
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Reasons To Go For Open Access: Perspectives From A Clinician And A Librarian
In recognition of Open Access week, Dr Pascal Meier an interventional cardiologist from University College London and Yale Medical School, and Whitney Townsend, the coordinator of the Health Sciences Executive Research Services at University of Michigan, provide their views on the benefits of open access publishing. Read More »
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Recommendations For Removing Copyright Hurdles To Scientific Research
The EU e-infrastructure coordination pro-iBiosphere project is preparing the ground for the pursuit of biological research in the digital age. In its "Draft policy for Open Access to data and information" scientists and lawyers recommend that hurdles posed by copyright and database protection should be removed by establishing exceptions for research in a new binding, Europe-wide regulation... Read More »
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Redefining Impact Through Open Access
In the 18 months since the World Bank announced its Open Access Policy with the launch of the Open Knowledge Repository, a transformation has taken place in the way the Bank’s published knowledge reaches the public. The frequency and volume of content being accessed doubled from one million downloads in the first year to two million in the subsequent six months. But measuring the impact goes beyond counting downloads and visits. Read More »
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Redesigned PLOS Journals – Now Launched
On the eve of our tenth anniversary, we’re pleased to announce that the redesign of all PLOS journals is now live. The three goals of this initiative were to... Read More »
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Regional Latin American And Caribbean Consultation On Open Access To Scientific Information And Research
UNESCO in collaboration with the Government of Jamaica, University of West Indies and the UNESCO National Commission for Jamaica, organized The Regional Latin American and Caribbean Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information and Research from 5 to 8 March 2013 in Kingston. Read More »
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Report Issued On Open Access Repository Interoperability
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)." Interoperability is the technical “glue” that makes possible the emerging open science infrastructure—an infrastructure that connects a global, decentralized network of repositories and other tools. Read More »
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Report: MOOCs Top Open Access For Disruptive Potential
A new report, Open Access, Megajournals, and MOOCs: On the Political Economy of Academic Unbundling, in Sage Open compares the disruptive potential of open access (OA) for academic articles and massive open online courses (MOOCs) and finds that MOOCs are more likely to change the course of higher education. Read More »
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Researchers Opt To Limit Uses Of Open-Access Publications
Academics are — slowly — adopting the view that publicly funded research should be made freely available. But data released yesterday suggest that, given the choice, even researchers who publish in open-access journals want to place restrictions on how their papers can be re-used — for example, sold by others for commercial profit. Read More »
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Reusing, Revising, Remixing And Redistributing Research
The initial purpose of Open Access is to enable researchers to make use of information already known to science as part of the published literature. One way to do that systematically is to publish scientific works under open licenses, in particular the Creative Commons Attribution License that is compatible with the stipulations of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and used by many Open Access journals. Read More »
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