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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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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
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
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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