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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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Monday, February 9, 2015
Second U.S. Federal Agency Releases Public Access Policy Plan
Open Access · Open DataThe U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today became the second federal agency/department to release its plan for a policy ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from its funded research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. The full policy ...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
February 2015 SPARC Innovator Award Announced
Open AccessA meeting of international student medical associations in the spring of 2013 in Baltimore, MD would be unlike any other conference Joe McArthur and David Carroll would attend. These activists and friends would bond over the frustration they felt when they regularly hit pay walls restricting access
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Nature owner merges with publishing giant
Open AccessMacmillan Science and Education looks set to gain from Springer's scale.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
OpenCon: Students and Early-Career Researchers for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationAs he explained, “[Paywalls are] creating a fundamental barrier between academics and everyone else—kids, the public. … It’s a problem for everyone.”
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