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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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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Heather Joseph Named to New U.S. Department of Commerce Data Advisory Council
Open DataU.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced today that SPARC’s Heather Joseph will serve on a newly-created Commerce Data Advisory Council (CDAC) to spearhead efforts and accelerate progress toward opening the most useful data to American businesses, entrepreneurs, workers, and...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Theme of 2015 International Open Access Week to be “Open for Collaboration”
Open AccessSPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced that the theme for this year’s 8th International Open Access Week will be “Open for Collaboration.” The theme highlights the ways in which collaboration both inspires and advances the Open Access movement—from ...
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Monday, March 2, 2015
HHS Releases Comprehensive Plans to Provide Public Access to Research Outputs
Open Access · Open DataIn response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive issued in February 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday released a comprehensive set of plans outlining the steps that its five largest agencies will take to create policies ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Putting a Dent in College Costs With Open-Source Textbooks
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Canadian Funding Agencies Release Coordinated Public Access Policy
Open Access · Open DataEarlier today, the three largest funding agencies in Canada released a coordinated policy requiring researchers to provide access to articles resulting from their funded research. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
OpenCon Scholarships Translate into Student Action for Oregon State University Libraries
Open Access · Open EducationOregon State University (OSU) has a deep history of commitment to Open Access. In 2013, the campus adopted a policy requiring faculty to place copies of their scholarly articles in its institutional repository and, recently, interest has been growing around Open Data and Open Educational ...
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Friday, February 13, 2015
ADB Adopts Open Access For Its Development Research
Open AccessMANILA, PHILIPPINES (12 February, 2015) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has made all its economic and development research on Asia and the Pacific available under open access, a principle that promotes unrestricted online access to scholarly research so that it can be more widely distributed ...
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