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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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EducationGuardian.co.uk Scholarly publishing should be set free – but not a free-for-all EducationGuardian.co.uk The gold route would shift the financial burden (because academic publishing has to be paid for somehow) from journal subscribers to... Delete the scoop?
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(0 Posts) (Open access is the future for Africa's science media - AfricanBrains http://t.co/rxT75uxToT #OpenAccessAfrica) Delete the scoop?
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ann mckechin mp writes about about the business, innovation and skills committee inquiry into open access in academic publishing. Delete the scoop?
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Elsevier has two reasons to buy Mendeley. One is to squash it: to destroy or coöpt an open-science icon that threatens its business model. Delete the scoop?
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Senior humanities and social science academics come out in support of move to ‘take knowledge out of silos’ Delete the scoop?
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MOOCs get the marquee billing. But open access has far greater potential to transform society, and to save colleges money in the process. Delete the scoop?
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Christopher Higgins details academy’s cost burden to Booksellers Association conference 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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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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Wellcome Trust Wellcome Trust supports open access award programme Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust has joined with the Public Library of Science and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) to recognise the use of scientific... Delete the scoop?
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The power of funding alone should not be enough to override academic freedom, argues Curt Rice, nor does open access automatically skew the world of scholarship Delete the scoop?
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Times Higher Education Overseas academics 'will have open access exemptions' Times Higher Education She suggested higher education could save money by avoiding the “duplicate effort” of requiring papers to be deposited in institutional repositories... Delete the scoop?
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Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates. Delete the scoop?
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So my question, as a journal editor from the south, is what to do. Should we create mega journals? Is open access the way forward? Should we continue to write in Spanish and disconnect ourselves from Delete the scoop?
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Open-access terminology needs to be employed accurately, argues Cameron Neylon Delete the scoop?
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