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Incentivizing Peer Review: The Last Obstacle for Open Access Science Wired Academia.edu is a key player in the movement toward open access scientific publishing, with over 11 million participants who have uploaded nearly 3 million scientific papers... 
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Access-denial because of the high cost of journal subscriptions is a major obstacle to the progress of research.
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Gilbert C FAURE's comment,
June 20, 2014 7:58 AM
nice move to circulate this blogpost! Open knowledge will not change very much usage of information, but for curious people. And the challenge for university teachers will remain to stimulate curiosity of potential innovators...
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(2013). Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road. Prometheus: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 229-239. doi: 10.1080/08109028.2014.891710
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SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science (COS), a Charlottesville, Virginia–based nonprofit technology start-up, have agreed to form a partnership to build the SHARE Notification Service, which will provide notice that research is available to the public...
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Global: Heads of public national research funding organisations from throughout the world have endorsed a ‘state of play’ report on Open Access to publications and adopted shared principles to support scientific career development. These are the key outcomes of the 2014 annual meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) held in Beijing, China. The state [...]
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The movement can no longer be stopped. Let's be careful though about how it will generate profit differently, at the expense of research money.
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Major international associations join together to underscore their support for immediate open access to research articles.
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ZEN ! Zero Embargo Now !
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Background Prezi presentation at the "Rebirth" TEDxLiege on May 12, 2014
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Podcast will be available shortly.
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TEDx for the first time in Liege, Belgium. Theme: "Rebirth" Live stream on http://www.tedxliege.com/streaming/
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My contribution to #TEDxLiege "Rebirth" at 15:40 will be on "Rebirth of Science". In history, technological communication breakthroughs have always induced profound civilisation changes and, singularly, with major impacts on scholarly communication. Scientific progress is proportional to the efficiency of communication. New communication hard- and softwares universally available nowadays will definitely change all previous paradigms in scientific research: writing, reviewing, reading, reusing,... We better be ready for it !
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Born in 1947, married, 2 children, 4 grand-children, Bernard Rentier is a biologist, specialized in Virology and Immunology. He has made his major contributi...
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Recorded in Liege, Belgium, on May 12, 2014.
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"Elsevier’s current TDM policy places unnecessary restrictions on researchers. It limits their ability, and their right, to mine content to which they have legal access". LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, along with 17 other European library and research organisations, has issued an open letter to Elsevier. The letter requests that Elsevier withdraw its TDM policy because it places unfair restrictions on how researchers can mine content to which they have legal access to and how they disseminate the results of their research. It is open to further signatories, so please disseminate amongst your networks! Individuals or organisation wishing to sign the letter should forward their details and logo on to Susan Reilly: :susan.reilly@kb.nl
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Text and data mining MUST be freely available on published scientific results. "The right to read is the right to mine". Once again, Elsevier is making up new outrageous rules depriving researchers from their fundamental rights, slowing down international research and sequestering public knowledge. Another reason for a boycott. When will researchers around the world decide at last to free themselves from being consenting hostages of Big Money?
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Implementing an OA policy at university level: the Liège experience -- Bernard Rentier, University of Liège
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The AOASG has developed a series of downloadable graphics for the community to use in their advocacy of open access. All graphics are available under a CC-BY license. Please contact us for the sour...
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A 25% decline in papers in last 5 months suggests PLOS ONE's allure is fading
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Speed and Transparency in Scientific Research Will Help Save Dollars and Lives – Innovation Insights
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Perfectly in line with the way I see things...
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The Svensson case is a landmark decision by the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") that enshrines the right to create clickable links towards copyrighted content which is freely...
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A newsletter providing news coverage and in-depth analysis of the US Public Access program.
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"$500 per year or $20 per issue to read what one individual has to say about open access..." (Stevan Harnad, on the GOAL Forum).
I hope everyone is aware of this...
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Announcement by President Enrique Peña Nieto himself.
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The European Commission is also launching an Open Data pilot trial in its Horizon 2020 Programme. Scientists in Universities and Research Centers should wake up and get prepared for this.
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Classical peer reviewing is being choked by its basic flaws.
Crowdsourcing peer review has become the only way to get out of the current and worsening traffic jam of scientific reviewing, to get rid of the hypocrisy of anonymous reviewing, to fasten the publication process, to ensure transparency of the reviewing process and to help setting up a new evolutive publication paradigm.