From Ideas to Industries: Human Genome Project
With openness as a core tenet, the Human Genome Project generated $965 billion in economic output...
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RT @QSS_ISSI: We are happy that our publisher @mitpress has signed this letter to @realDonaldTrump, supporting immediate open access of art
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RT @LibrariansReed: As a librarian, I have to inform students the content we teach them to rely on while they are enrolled in university wi
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RT @carlamyers121: I remember comforting a patron who was in tears because she could not afford $20 to obtain access to an article her doct
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RT @FairUseLBR: I support #OAintheUSA because as a #CommunityCollege librarian I believe all students deserve the same access to educationa
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RT @OpenResearchFG: Coalition of publishers: "You cannot showcase the quality of federally-funded research to its full potential by limitin
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