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Thursday, November 19, 2015
“The Right to Read is the Right to Mine…”
Open Access · Open Data“The Right to Read is the Right to Mine…” Those words are not only the tagline for an innovative text and data mining project called ContentMine, but are also a crucial component of the definition of Open Access. The facts contained in scholarly articles are what make them so useful and ...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
SPARC, Higher Education Groups Support Lingua Editors, Open Access
Open AccessFollowing in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier’s practices. The Lingua editors argued that the journal’s price has steadily increased year after ...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
U.S. Education Department Proposes Open Licensing Policy As Part of #GoOpen Campaign
Open EducationToday the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced a new campaign to encourage schools to adopt free, openly licensed educational materials, capping off a historic month of developments for the U.S. open educational resources (OER) movement. Entitled #GoOpen, the new campaign was launched at ...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
White House Commits to Open Access, Open Education and Open Data in New Open Government Plan
Open EducationToday the White House released its 2016-2017 Open Government National Action Plan, which includes commitments to expand access to open educational resources and the results of federally funded research. This exciting development shows continued support from the Obama administration for these ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015
SPARC Launches Open Access Evaluation Tool
Open AccessSPARC Launches Open Access Evaluation Tool New Website Quantitatively Documents Journals' Degrees of Openness Washington, DC – SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced the launch of the Open Access Spectrum (OAS) Evaluation Tool, which provides a ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015
Open Collaboration for Open Access Week 2015
Open AccessToday marks the beginning of the 8th International Open Access Week, which will be celebrated at hundreds of events across more than 50 countries around the world. This week, the Open Access community will raise awareness, celebrate progress, and lay the foundation for continued collective ...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Affordable College Textbook Act Reintroduced in Congress
Open Education
SPARC is excited to share that today the Affordable College Textbook Act was introduced in both chambers of the U.S. Congress. The bill aims to reduce the cost of textbooks by expanding the use of open educational resources on college and university campuses. It was introduced by Senators Dick ...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
SPARC Backs Bill to Make College Textbooks More Affordable
Open EducationSPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to broaden access to academic knowledge, today applauded the introduction of the Affordable College Textbook Act of 2015, which would reduce the cost of college textbooks by expanding the use of open educational resources.
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