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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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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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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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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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Review Of Open Access In Economics
Ever since BioMed Central (BMC) published its first free online article on July 19th 2000, the Open Access movement has made significant progress, so much so that many different stakeholders now see 100% Open Access to research as inevitable in the near future. Read More »
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Riled Up By Elsevier’s Take-Downs? Time To Embrace Open Access
The publishing giant Elsevier owns much of the world’s academic knowledge, in the form of article copyright. In the past few weeks it has stepped up enforcement of its property rights, issuing “take-down notices” to Academia.edu, where many researchers post PDFs of their articles. Read More »
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SAGE Reduces Processing Fee For Open Access Journal
SAGE has significantly lowered the processing fee it charges to scholars who submit papers to its open access journal, SAGE Open. Read More »
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SciELO Announces Open Access eBook Collection From Brazil
Last Fall, I wrote about the SciELO ebook collection for Open Access Week. I just received this official press release announcing the collection of 300 open access ebooks from Brazil. The press release is also available in Espanol and Portugues. Read More »
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Science Europe Denounces ‘Hybrid’ Open Access
Recently Science Europe published a clear and concise position statement titled: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications. This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect during the transition to open access. Read More »
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Science Wins As PLoS Goes Hard On Open Access
Academic journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) has changed its policy so that authors are now required to make the data underlying their scientific findings available publicly, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article. Read More »
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Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)
The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. Read More »
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Scientists Are 'Less Inclined To Do The Tough Experiments' For Open Access Journals
As chief editor of the journal "Nature Medicine," Juan Carlos López knows his company has to change as the open-access model of publishing research papers takes hold. But he questions the quality. Read More »
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Search/Find Open Access Scholarly Articles, Reports Using New iOS Apps From CORE Project
The CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Project comes from the Knowledge Management Institute at The Open University in the UK. Read More »
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SPIE ‘Gold’ Open Access Program Meets New Needs Of UK Authors - And Others
An open access publishing program recently adopted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, supports the needs of authors seeking open access publication, including authors affected by new rules adopted in the United Kingdom by the Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »
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