Open Acess
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 [...]
On January 25th, 2012 Chandrika Nath posted a piece entitled Open Access to Scientific Information on the UK’s Houses of Parliament website: “The internet has transformed the nature of scientific research, opening up new ways to collect, use and disseminate scientific information. This has led to increased demand for access to such information. Open Access [...]
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Around the world, academics are protesting against Elsevier’s business practices: Check out this page: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ nuff said…
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A must read: Harnad, S. (2011) What Is To Be Done About Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research? (Response to US OSTP RFI). Technical Report , Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. (Submitted to OSTP) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/23080/ Steven Harnad outlines why the minimum should be to mandate that: (i) the [...]
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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