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Was this the year open access for science reached critical mass? 
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Not only does student participation decline dramatically throughout the new generation of Web-based courses, but the involvement of teachers in online discussions makes it worse.
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Is there any point in a library paying for Advances in Mathematics?
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On the "bundling trap": paying much for unwanted resources.
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The EU has tested OA as a pilot study in its 7th Framework Programme (FP7). In the 8th FP, called "Horizon 2020" and in the COST Programme, Open Access will be mandatory.
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As shown in this chart (thanks to César Villamizar), the number of articles indexed in PubMed for which free fulltext is available within 3 years of publication is now over 800,000, or 28% of the articles indexed. This growth is an important indication of the dramatic growth of high quality open access resources. The U.S. National Institutes of Health, responsible for the PubMed index, does not index junk! Via Florence Piron
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Academic publisher Elsevier has issued take-down notices to Academia.edu for researchers who have posted scientific papers on the site.
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On this, read Stevan Harnad's opinion on the GOAL discussion list: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002405.html
"The Green/Gold distinction (which is based on who provides the access, the publisher or the author) is more important now than ever, as publishers fight to retain control of their content. The distinction resolves confusion rather than creating it; and it is simple to understand (but then needs to be adhered to). The OA movement should resolutely push for Green OA. Green OA mandates should be formulated to ensure that compliance is by the party bound by the mandate (the fundee, if a funder mandate, the employee, if an institutional mandate). On no account should mandates rely on compliance by a 2nd party, the publisher, who is not bound by the mandate and has every interest in maintaining control over the content. There is a 3rd way in which articles can be made OA of course, other than by the author (or the author's assigns) (Green) or by the publisher (Gold): It can be made OA by a 3rd party, either a user or a rival publisher or service provider. This is partly what the academia.edu kerfuffle is about, and it will no doubt spread to ResearchGate, Mendeley and the like (It also concerns versions, because Green OA usually involves only the author's final draft whereas 3rd-party OA often involves the publisher's proprietary version.) My advice to those who are up in arms about Elsevier's take-down notice for 3rd-party service providers is to redirect their resentment to doing something legal and feasible, namely, mandating and depositing the final draft in their institutional repository immediately upon acceptance, and making it OA as soon as they can (or wish). The term "OA" (and the goal of the OA movement) should also continue to be reserved for immediate (online) access. The inverse of Open Access is Access Denial. Access is denied by Access Tolls (subscriptions, licenses, pay-to-view), but, just as surely, it is denied by Access Embargoes. Hence it is a contradiction in terms to call Embargoed Access "Delayed Open Access." It is Delayed Access (DA), just as Toll Access is Toll Access (TA), not "Toll Open Access!" And, as I mentioned in my preceding post, a one year access embargo is now the real target to beat (as publishers already know all to well). Access delayed for a year is not a victory for the advocates of Open Access; nor is it a solution to the Access/Impact problem in the online era. A 1-year delay might be a convenient unit for doing bibliometric measurements on the growth and latency of Green and Gold Access (and a welcome compromise and marketing ploy for the publishing industry), but "Open Access" should continue to be reserved for immediate, toll-free (and permanent!) online access. (The same applies whether the Open Access is Gratis or Libre, by the way.)" Stevan Harnad
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Placée sous le thème de la liberté d'expression, la Rentrée Académique 2013 mettait à l'honneur Stevan Harnad, professeur à l'UQAM et précurseur de l'Open Access.
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"To tackle the problem of high cost of a large part of scientific publishing it is necessary to start from the emancipation of the peer review process from the mould of publishing business. And the participation of the scientific community is crucial.
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Emancipation of the peer review process from the mould of publishing business.
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Pour Elifsu Sabuncu et Antoine Blanchard, fondateurs de 2e Labo, la France est en retard dans la publication des informations concernant l'activité des labos.
Gilbert C FAURE's comment,
December 6, 2013 3:37 AM
à l'évidence, la France a du mal à communiquer, en interne pour faciliter l'accès de ses chercheurs aux sources de financement et ensuite pour publiciser ses résultats, alors que via scoop.it il est remarquable de voir les universités américaines et asiatiques faire passer le message! Ceci d'autant que les outils classiques d'accès à l'information scientifique PubMed, Google Scholar atteignent leurs limites ou sont peu accessibles Web of Science, Scopus...
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Cooperation and a clear set of aims are essential for Europe to be a front runner in making research freely available, says Christoph Kratky.
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Working on the principle that policies should be aligned across Europe in the spirit of the European Research Area’s harmonisation agenda, the PASTEUR4OA project will promote alignment as a key element of good EU policymaking practice.
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As Chairman of EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship) and Board member of the FRS-FNRS (Belgium), both involved in the project, I am happy and proud to announce the launching of PASTEUR4OA next month.
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An interesting observation: documents are being downloaded 30 times more when they are in Open Access (single click) than in Restricted Access (reprint request). Although this latter procedure is light, the need to submit a request lowers readership considerably. Unembargoed or disembargoed documents should be made OA immediately.
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Il y a plus d'un an, la communauté académique française a fait part de son émotion au sujet des pratiques commerciales d'une unité du CNRS. Cette dernière, appelée INIST, vendait des reproductions ...
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Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'
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Slides of the Berlin 11 Open Access Conference - Berlin, Nov 19, 2013
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Yesterday I was at the Berlin 11 satellite conference for students and early-career researchers. It was a privilege to be part of a stellar line-up of speakers, including the likes of SPARC's Heath...
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I agree ! as Victor HUGO said : "All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."