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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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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
NASA Public Access Plan Available: Uses NIH’s PMC Platform
Open Access · Open DataToday, NASA announced its plan for a policy ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from the approximately $3 billion it invests annually in basic and applied research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. NASA has provided a detailed timeline for the final ...
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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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