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Monday, October 19, 2015
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation / SPARC Open Access Stakeholders Forum
Open AccessThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) were pleased to convene an invitation-only forum of open access stakeholders on October 19 and 20 in Washington, DC. The forum aimed to catalyze a dialogue about opportunities for ...
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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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Monday, September 21, 2015
How digital ‘tree of life’ embodies the potential of open science
Open Access · Open DataScientists have developed a comprehensive, open map of the relationships among all known life. The project illustrates how open-science principles and digital technology can bring together information to expand understanding of a complex subject.
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Open Access in Latin America: A paragon for the rest of the world
Open AccessLatin America is one of the world’s most progressive regions in terms of open access and adoption of sustainable, cooperative models for disseminating research; models that ensure that researchers and citizens have access to the results of research conducted in their region. SciELO is a ...
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Monday, August 3, 2015
Bill would require public access to taxpayer-funded research
Open AccessThe Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted in favor of a bill that would require publicly funded research to be made available online, for free, within a year of publication.
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Senate panel passes bill to give public access to more research
Open Access · Open DataA Senate panel on Wednesday passed legislation to require certain federally funded research to be open to the public.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Senate panel approves public access bill
Open AccessOpen-access advocates are heralding a Senate panel’s approval today of a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
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