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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Report back: Institute for Open Leadership meeting
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationCreative Commons and the Open Policy Network hosted the first Institute for Open Leadership meeting in San Francisco 12-16 January 2015. The Institute for Open Leadership (IOL for short) is a training program to identify and cultivate new leaders in open education, science, public policy, ...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Texas A&M librarians present plan to reduce textbook costs
Open EducationTexas A&M librarians are working toward securing more free textbooks for students while allowing thousands of research papers to be read by the public, marking two goals discussed at a weekend workshop aimed at encouraging open access initiatives at SEC schools.
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Monday, February 9, 2015
Second U.S. Federal Agency Releases Public Access Policy Plan
Open Access · Open DataThe U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today became the second federal agency/department to release its plan for a policy ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from its funded research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. The full policy ...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
February 2015 SPARC Innovator Award Announced
Open AccessA meeting of international student medical associations in the spring of 2013 in Baltimore, MD would be unlike any other conference Joe McArthur and David Carroll would attend. These activists and friends would bond over the frustration they felt when they regularly hit pay walls restricting access
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Nature owner merges with publishing giant
Open AccessMacmillan Science and Education looks set to gain from Springer's scale.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
The $250 Econ 101 Textbook
Open EducationWe economics professors are missing a chance to teach a cardinal lesson about the unchecked rise of prices.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
OpenCon: Students and Early-Career Researchers for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationAs he explained, “[Paywalls are] creating a fundamental barrier between academics and everyone else—kids, the public. … It’s a problem for everyone.”
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
The Gates Foundation pushes to make more academic research free and open to the public
Open Access · Open DataStarting in January 2017, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will require all of the research it funds to be published in a manner that is free for the public to read, according to a recent statement.
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