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Academic Spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution

Alok Jha | The Guardian | April 9, 2012

Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge. 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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Hiding Your Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral

Mike Taylor | The Guardian | January 17, 2013

As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable Read More »

Open Access: Effective Measures To Put UK Research Online Under Threat?

Martin Paul Eve, Stephen Curry and Alma Swan | Guardian.com | July 28, 2014

The universities of the UK should not squander the opportunity to put in place an effective mechanism for making their published research freely available...

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UK's OA Policy Influences Research Assessment

Neil Jacobs | Research Information | August 11, 2014

The UK’s system for assessing research and allocating money has added new open-access requirements. Neil Jacobs looks at what this means for researchers in the UK and elsewhere...

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