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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
NSF Releases Incremental Plan for Public Access
Open Access · Open DataLast week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released its plan to establish policies to ensure public access to articles and data resulting from its funded research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. The plan calls for researchers to deposit final accepted manuscripts ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free
Open AccessThe National Science Foundation (NSF) today released a long-anticipated policy that will require its grantees to make their peer-reviewed research papers freely available within 12 months of publication in a journal. The agency is not creating its own public archive of full-text papers, but ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
Open AccessThe Wikimedia Foundation is committed to making knowledge of all forms freely available to the world. Beginning today, our new Open Access Policy will ensure that all research work produced with support from the Wikimedia Foundation will be openly available...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Wyden seeks better public access to federal research
Open AccessA bipartisan coalition of Senate and House members, including Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Wednesday introduced the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, a bill to improve public access to federally funded research.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
DOD Releases “Draft Plan” for Public Access
Open Access · Open DataThe Department of Defense (DoD) has released a “draft plan” outlining steps it will take to establish policies to ensure public access to articles and data resulting from its funded research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. While the Department is careful to note that ...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Are commercial publishers wrongly selling access to openly licensed scholarly articles?
Open AccessRoss Mounce, a postdoc at the University of Bath, recently wrote about how Elsevier charged him $31.50 for an “open access” research article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (BY-NC-ND) license. Mounce was understandably upset, because the article was ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Open Education Week 2015
Open EducationA White House blog post celebrating Open Education Week!
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Thursday, March 5, 2015
Directory of Open Access Journals Introduces New Standards to Help Community Address Quality Concerns
Open AccessAfter all the hard work that scholars put into their research, they are eager to have the papers reporting on their work widely read. Many understand that publishing their article in an Open Access journal provides them with the opportunity to reach the widest possible audience. However, ...
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