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Bernard Rentier
April 15, 2015 1:09 AM
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Bernard Rentier
April 10, 2015 4:26 AM
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"Researchers appear to remain unaware of the tsunami that is occurring in scholarly communication. By centralising the payment of APCs we once again have a situation where researchers are divorced from the economic realities of publishing, in the same way libraries have traditionally been the foil between the economics of subscriptions and the access to the materials.
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Bernard Rentier
April 9, 2015 1:55 AM
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Dans un article paru le 1er avril 2015, The Art Newspaper a révélé que plus de 30 millions d'images de peintures, dessins et sculptures pourraient bientôt être disponibles sur un site Web. Ce porta...
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Bernard Rentier
April 2, 2015 1:58 AM
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Open Belgium is the yearly conference of Open Knowledge Belgium, a community Open Access Belgium joined this year. Traditionally this community is involved in open government data, open transport data, open geo data, rather than open science data. Lately, more and more synergy activities are organized to emphasize the overlap in the different open “fields”.
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Bernard Rentier
March 30, 2015 2:54 PM
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Bernard Rentier, ancien recteur de l'ULg, n’hésite pas à définir l’Open Access comme une « cause à défendre ». « Je suis intimement persuadé que l’Open Access est un outil qui, au niveau mondial, a son importance pour apporter aux populations une vraie liberté de pensée, et une vraie liberté d’accès à la rigueur scientifique » conclut-il.
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Bernard Rentier
March 23, 2015 2:37 AM
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Most American science on education and child development is supported by taxpayers, but by the time that research makes it through peer review, much of it ends up behind academic journal paywalls.
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Bernard Rentier
March 19, 2015 6:43 PM
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Wiley & Readcube have done something rather sneaky recently, and it’s not escaped the attention of diligent readers of the scientific literature.
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Bernard Rentier
March 18, 2015 3:09 AM
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Either individual researchers must start reading contracts in detail and learn to fight for their rights or the open access community must create some kind of central body that can draw up model contracts and is prepared to enforce them - in the courts, if necessary. It won't be easy but the moment has now come for the open access community to take this crucial next step, just as the open source community did some years ago, successfully.
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Bernard Rentier
March 15, 2015 4:11 PM
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L’UNESCO soutient le libre accès (OA), et en particulier l’accès à l’information scientifique (articles, actes de conférences et données de tout type) provenant de la recherche financée par les Etats. L’UNESCO travaille avec ses partenaires pour faire prendre conscience des bénéfices du libre accès aux chercheurs et à ceux qui détiennent l’information ou prennent des décisions. A travers son réseau de bureaux, d’instituts et de centres à l’échelle mondiale, l’UNESCO facilite la mise en place et l’adoption de politiques de libre accès. De plus, l’UNESCO participe au débat mondial sur le libre accès et collabore avec des initiatives locales, régionales et mondiales de défense du libre accès.
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Bernard Rentier
March 13, 2015 7:32 AM
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Open Access in Horizon 2020
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has described the process where the National Institutes of Health and related agencies will make scientific research results public.
Via Florence Piron
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Bernard Rentier
February 18, 2015 2:24 PM
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Bernard Rentier
February 13, 2015 3:44 AM
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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for scientific progress" (Carlos Moedas - Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation)
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Bernard Rentier
April 10, 2015 7:45 AM
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April 9, 2015 2:33 AM
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Barely. But not always and not at all if free.
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Bernard Rentier
April 5, 2015 1:41 AM
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After 350 years of academic journals it’s time to shake things up. Writing and reviewing journal articles is part of the core business of a scientist. But it’s not an efficient way to communicate research results.
The online platform connects researchers with test subjects, and makes it easy to share data
Via Florence Piron
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Bernard Rentier
March 28, 2015 3:50 PM
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Authors can pay open-access journal extra to get reviewed in less than 3 weeks
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Bernard Rentier
March 22, 2015 4:40 PM
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Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan announced the winners of the FSF's annual Free Software Awards at a ceremony on Saturday, March 21st, held during the LibrePlanet 2015 conference at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two awards were given: the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
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Bernard Rentier
March 18, 2015 5:19 PM
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Bernard Rentier
March 18, 2015 2:40 AM
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Bernard Rentier
March 14, 2015 1:18 PM
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Ross Mounce, a postdoc at the University of Bath, recently wrote about how Elsevier charged him $31.50 for an “open access” research article licensed under a Creative Commons license.
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Bernard Rentier
March 10, 2015 4:29 AM
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Legacy publishers themselves killed hybrid OA through their own carelessness. Authors, librarians, research funders and readers simply didn’t trust publishers to do hybrid OA properly, and had amassed plenty of evidence of their ineptitude. They tried to sweep the problem of a flawed and difficult system under the carpet as just ‘bumps in the road‘ to open access but actually hybrid OA was just a wrong turn all along.
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Bernard Rentier
February 19, 2015 3:11 AM
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"Après une période d’hésitations stratégiques plus ou moins longue, tous les grands éditeurs ont maintenant défini des stratégies de basculement de leur modèle économique dans le Gold Open Access. Si la dynamique actuelle se poursuit, et c’est l’hypothèse la plus probable, on peut raisonnablement penser qu’à un horizon de 10 ans le modèle économique basé sur l’abonnement sera devenu secondaire.""Le « portage » des marges et des revenus dans le nouveau modèle économique du Gold OA ne va pas de soi : le Gold Open Access fait apparaître clairement que l’activité d’édition scientifique est une activité de prestation dans le cadre de laquelle il sera plus difficile de justifier des marges opérationnelles de 35% comme c’est le cas aujourd’hui chez Springer, Elsevier, Wiley ou Taylor & Francis. Le Gold OA est intrinsèquement porteur d’une exigence de transparence sur la structure des coûts de l’édition scientifique. Cette transparence devrait pouvoir profiter aux communautés de chercheurs publiant."
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Bernard Rentier
February 13, 2015 4:51 AM
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"The release of the January 2015 Webometrics Open Access repository rankings sees ORBi ranked in 26th position globally out of 2158 repositories, all categories combined. A jump of over 30 places which is not due to luck but which is the result of, amongst other things, referencing work carried out with Google and Google Scholar and which has allowed us to significantly increase our visibility on the Web!"
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