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SV-POW! ... All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access. Delete the scoop?
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Transition is both desirable and inevitable, Gabriel Egan argues Delete the scoop?
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World's research funders launch open-access action plan Nature.com (blog) The structure of academia and the research communities, the landscape of publishers, and the funding of research and publications vary from country to country … specific... Delete the scoop?
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*The following article was originally published in the April-May 2013 edition of [Red Pepper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Pepper_(magazine)) (Issue 189).* Who can share what on the internet? T... Delete the scoop?
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Knowing how and where to share your research may still seem a daunting task given the variety of channels. Ross Mounce, Community Coordinator for Open Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation, pres... Delete the scoop?
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A major survey of UK Academics released today examines the attitudes of researchers and practitioners working within higher education. It sheds light on their behaviours, including their reliance on digital technologies, the Internet and open access. Delete the scoop?
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UNESCO will make its future and past publications free for all to access Delete the scoop?
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Book Publishing Industry News. Regular news updates from The Bookseller's news desk. The latest press reports about the publishing sector and updates from the City Delete the scoop?
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All-or-nothing open access evangelism perpetuates the problems of scientific publishing. Writing in the Guardian, one advocate has even suggested that publishing behind a pay-wall is immoral. That ... Delete the scoop?
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Times Higher Education G8 science ministers endorse open access Times Higher Education “We share the intention, therefore, to continue our cooperative efforts and will consider how best to address the global promotion of increasing public access to... Delete the scoop?
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A variety of schemes would allow the academy to reclaim control of its knowledge and labour, says Steffen Böhm Delete the scoop?
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The Wellcome Trust today announces that it is to extend its open access policy to include all scholarly monographs and book chapters written by its grantholders as part of their Trust-funded research. Delete the scoop?
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ASAP Awards: Rewarding and acknowledging novel uses of Open Access ... Delete the scoop?
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Open access is not enough; we must learn how to communicate our research to make it truly accessible
Open access debates have long been fostered by science disciplines but to make open access work truly powerful, we must make the same push for quality research presented in an accessible manner, wr... Delete the scoop?
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Times Higher Education Open access 'waiver' schemes encouraged by government Times Higher Education The Royal Society of Chemistry's “gold for gold” scheme, under which researchers get credit to pay open access fees equal to the cost of their... Delete the scoop?
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Open Access is – if not exclusively then at least overwhelmingly - a positive force for scholarly communities in the developing world. Delete the scoop?
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As part of the progressive erosion of RCUK's initially excellent open-access policy, barrier-based publishers somehow got them to accept their "open-access decision tree", which you can now find on... Delete the scoop?
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This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect during the transition to open access. Unlike the recent US OSTP public access policy which allows ... Delete the scoop?
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UK university research is world-class. Second-only to the United States for high quality research; UK researchers produce 1 in 4 of the most cited arts and humanities articles ; the UK has produced over 100 Nobel laureates.
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Alex Bols gives the 1994 Group position on open acess. Delete the scoop?
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food for thought.. time to check our own document repository to see what it does...