Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, today launched the web-based portal for its MSSNG database, making the resource available to researchers worldwide. The MSSNG portal enables qualified scientists to access, study and share findings on detailed genomic information from people with autism spectrum disorder and their family members. Announced in December 2014, the MSSNG project (pronounced "missing") is a significant milestone in advancing autism research. MSSNG aims to sequence the complete genomes of 10,000 individuals affected by autism and their families by early 2016 - an unprecedented undertaking that provides the global autism research community with an open resource to answer some of the most vexing questions about the disorder. This could lead to breakthroughs in identifying the causes and subtypes of autism, as well as advancing the diagnosis and personalized treatment of the disorder.
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Argentina Passes Open Access Act For Publicly Funded Research
The Congress of Argentina recently passed a landmark law making publicly funded science and technology research publications free and open access. Read More »
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Argentina Takes Steps Towards Open Access Law
Argentina is a step closer to becoming the first country to pass legislation to make all publicly funded research available in open access repositories. Read More »
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As Costs For Academic Journals Stay High, Universities Look To Open Access
The high costs to access peer-reviewed research is forcing academics to take a hard look at how scholarly work should be distributed in the future and, so far, the most promising alternative is to post online for free. Read More »
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As Predicted, Elsevier's Attempt To Silence Sci-Hub Has Increased Public Awareness Massively
Last month, Techdirt wrote about the growing interest in Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers -- more than 47,000,000 of them at the time of writing. As Mike noted then, Elsevier's attempt to make the site go away by suing it has inevitably produced a classic Streisand Effect, whereby many more people know about it as a direct result. That was first pointed out by Mike Taylor in a short post, where he listed a few titles that had written about Sci-Hub. This week, David Rosenthal has produced a kind of update, listing many more posts on the subject that have appeared in the last month alone.
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ASAP Awards – Interview With Daniel Mietchen
The names of the six finalists for the ASAP awards are now out, and I was pleased to see Daniel Mietchen’s name in the list. Daniel Mietchen, Raphael Wimmer and Nils Dagsson Moskopp have been working on a really valuable project. There was an opportunity in exploiting open access literature to illustrate articles in Wikipedia. Read More »
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ASAP Awards – Interview With Mat Todd
The name of the six finalists for the ASAP awards are out. Backed by major sponsors like Google, PLOS and the Wellcome Trust, and a number of other organisations, this award seeks to “build awareness and encourage the use of scientific research — published through Open Access — in transformative ways.” Read More »
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ASAP Awards – Winners Announced
Earlier this month the six finalists for the ASAP awards were named. They represented six outstanding contributions to innovation that exploited Open Access. The 3 winners were announced at a kickoff event at the World Bank in Washington DC, on the Monday of Open Access Week 2013. [...] Read More »
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Asia’s Leading Oncology Journal Cancer Science Adopts Open Access
From January 1, 2014, all newly published articles will be open access and free to view, download and share. Read More »
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Australia's Chief Scientist Includes Open Access In STEM Vision
Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb has presented recommendations to the country’s parliament for a national strategy on research in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Amongst other things, his report highlighted the role that open access could play...
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Autism Epidemic Linked To Epidemic Of Vaccine Induced Diabetes
A new peer reviewed study was published in the current issue of Open Access, Scientific Reports (Volume 2, Issue 3, 2013) linking the autism epidemic to the epidemic of vaccine induced type 1 diabetes. Read More »
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Autism Speaks launches MSSNG portal for open-access genomics research
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Beall’s List Of Predatory Publishers 2013
The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts. Read More »
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Bee Sharp Announces Open Access To Premiere Level Membership
Bee Sharp is giving educators free access to its premiere level for Summer 2013. The academy and its members focus on inspired teaching and providing teaching help to other educators. Read More »
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Berlin 'Open Access' Conference Recap
As open access (OA) and other “open” movements become more of a part of the mainstream consciousness, conversations surrounding OA continue to evolve—moving from whether OA is a good approach to far more provocative questions such as, how do we move past the legacies of the print publication world and what is a journal in today’s environment? Read More »
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Big Data's Promise On Stage At TEDMED
Big data offers big promise for the future of medicine, and at the annual TEDMED conference Tuesday in the nation's capital, speakers put forth ideas that included the use "digital traces" and "digital bread crumbs" as ways to help guage a patient's health. Read More »
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