Citizen Scientists
On Wednesday Oxfam, a global movement of people working with others to overcome poverty and suffering, adopted Open Repository’s enhanced DSpace hosted solution. Oxfam Policy & Practice is a new resource for the humanitarian and development community. Their website provides an insight into Oxfam’s development and humanitarian policy, practice, and research. When Oxfam began the [...]
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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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Open access to the latest research became even easier this week with the launch of BioMed Central’s newly redesigned website (www.biomedcentral.com). The company, which pioneered the open access model and now publishes over 220 open access journals, has introduced a streamlined design and new look which makes the high-traffic website site much more straightforward to [...]
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1ST THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE KNOWLEDGE COMMONS Governing Pooled Knowledge Resources: Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and Genetic Resource Commons 12-14th September 2012 Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium CALL FOR PAPERS http://biogov.uclouvain.be/iasc/index.php TOPIC A variety of initiatives and policies have been proposed that are going beyond “open access”, and aim to facilitate more [...]
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John Willinsky, Stanford University, University of British Columbia spoke at the new school. His talk is titled, “Does What We Know Belong To All? The Intellectual Property Principles” The introduction was by Dean David Scobey, The New School for Public Engagement The New School is a legendary progressive university comprising schools bound by a common, [...]
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