May
3

Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available

Jane on May 3rd, 2012

Wired Campus Logo

May 2, 2012, 2:35 pm

By Jennifer Howard

Throwing its weight behind open access, the British government has declared it wants to make all research paid for with public money freely available online. If it succeeds, the move is likely…

Read more: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/britain-announces-plan-to-make-publicly-financed-research-freely-available/36256

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Apr
26

British Dental Journal to offer open access options

Jane on April 26th, 2012

Open (wide) access. By: Hancocks, Stephen. British Dental Journal,
4/14/2012, Vol. 212 Issue 7, p301-301, 1p;
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2012.269

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Apr
24

Open Access@KU:

Jane on April 24th, 2012

The Scholarly Communication program in the Center for Digital Scholarship has launched a new web site, Open Access@KU: http://openaccess.ku.edu. The web site contains information about open access efforts at KU and around the world.

Awesome!

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Apr
24

Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers’ prices

Jane on April 24th, 2012

In an article published today in The Guardian, Ian Sample, science correspondent writes “Harvard University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls….”

  1. The Guardian

    2. See also the posts in

  2. The Verge
  3. and in Boing Boing
  4. and in The Atlantic
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Apr
24

Open Science and Access to Medical Research

Jane on April 24th, 2012

Jalees Rehman, MD

Open Science and Access to Medical Research is an invited guest blog on the website of Scientific American and written by By Jalees Rehman on April 24, 2012. Jalees Rehman, MD is a German scientist and physician. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center. He concludes that: “t the time for open science and networked discovery has arrived and that it will definitely enhance the progress of scientific research, as long as we build institutions that help us process and understand the flood of scientific data that will be released in the new open science world.”

Read the post here.

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