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A new Chair, as part of the UNESCO Chairs Programme has been created in our area of interest. The Chair is to be jointly directed by the University of Victoria and PRIA with Budd Hall and Rajesh Tandon named as the Co-Directors. This is the first such Chair to be created out of a partnership [...]
The January, 31, 2012 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the growing protest against Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific journal publisher. Apparently, it all started with a rant on a blog post at the end of January. The post was by Timonth Gowers, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge University. He suggested it would [...]
Around the world, academics are protesting against Elsevier’s business practices: Check out this page: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ nuff said…
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On OCTOBER 29, 2011 MICHAEL NIELSEN wrote a wonderful article in the WSJ titled: The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share: From cancer to cosmology, researchers could race ahead by working together—online and in the open. The author makes a solid case that publicly funded science should be open science. Read it here.
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International Open Access Week is October 24-30 – MIT News Office. MIT was the first institution to have a university-wide, faculty-driven open access policy, which was established in March 2009. Learn more about MIT’s efforts to promote open access in the video, MIT Faculty on Open Access. Professors Hal Abelson, Eric von Hippel, Richard Holton [...]
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