An official at the European Commission, which is drafting proposals for the Horizon 2020 program, said that for researchers receiving funding from its program between 2014 and 2020, open-access publishing "will be the norm." Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/17/european-union-links-research-grants-open-access#ixzz1vltnjEmp Via MyScienceWork 
The associate editor of the journal Genomics has resigned, stating that he can no longer work for a system that puts profit over access to research. In an article in The Guardian, Winston Hide announced his resignation from “system that provides solid profits for the publisher while effectively denying colleagues in developing countries access to research findings.” Via MyScienceWork 
I propose that Harvard faculty members organize to volunteer their editorial services in identifying and recommending the best new open access articles in their field, after those articles have been published. Get the publications out there, decide if they’re important later. Yes, this is post publication peer review, which has been suggested before, but it involves the same peers as our current system of pre publication peer review. Via MyScienceWork 
David Willetts: Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it... 
En tant que chercheur, la plupart des droits d’auteur que je détiens portent sur des textes dont l’intérêt repose sur le fond et non sur la forme. Je ne suis pas romancier ni poète ... Via MyScienceWork 
PUBLISHING obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: a licence to print money. Advocates and opponents of “open access” for government-financed scientific research are girding for a long battle before Congress, which has little enthusiasm for either extreme. Via MyScienceWork 
About one month ago, Fields Medalist Tim Gowers complained in a blog post about Elsevier's publication practices, which inspired the mathematics PhD student Tyler Neylon to launch the campaign "Th... Via MyScienceWork 
2012-13 was declared the year of science by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year, and there is a lot of effort being made all over the country to not only intensify the quantity and quality of research but also ensure greater access for all. For instance, IIT-Madras plans to make available its research papers in all disciplines online, in the public domain. The institute already provides e-learning through online web and video courses in engineering, science and humanities streams through NPTEL. Via MyScienceWork 
Timothy Gowers of the University of Cambridge, who won the Fields Medal for his research, has organized a boycott of Elsevier because, he says, its pricing and policies restrict access to work that should be much more easily available. He asked for a boycott in a blog post on January 21, and as of Monday evening, on the boycott’s Web site The Cost of Knowledge, nearly 1,900 scientists have signed up, pledging not to publish, referee, or do editorial work for any Elsevier journal. Via MyScienceWork 
Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant... |
The digital revolution has begun and successful institutions will be those that use the opportunity to collaborate, grow and widen their influence, says Anka Mulder... 
A blow for open accessThe HinduHarvard University's decision to ask faculty members to make their papers available in the university's open-access repository and choose open-access journals or those with reasonable subscription costs is a sign that... 
University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls... 
Wellcome backs campaign to break stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared free online... Via MyScienceWork 
Peter Suber is the Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, a Faculty Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Special Advisor at Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication, Senior Researcher at SPARC, Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, and a non-practicing lawyer. He writes the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Board of Enabling Open Scholarship, the Advisory Board of the Open Knowledge Foundation, and the boards of several other groups devoted to open access, scholarly communication, and the information commons. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking, and writing. Via MyScienceWork 
Troves of scholarly research and information - which had previously been the domain of elite universities and wealthy countries which could afford it - are now freely available to all, thanks to the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Via MyScienceWork BioMed Central's authors and editors discuss the benefits of open access publishing Via MyScienceWork |
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