Open Access

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Open Access”

• An alternative economic model for open access journals

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 542
  Jaschik, S. (2009) Breakthrough on Open Access Inside Higher Education , September 15 An article on a plan by five Ivy League universities to fund peer reviewed open access journals for publications by their own faculty. I’m still struggling to understand why these publications would not be free, if they are open ...
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• Call For Proposals: Open Knowledge Foundation

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  The Open Knowledge Foundation Blog has announced a call for proposals for OkCon 2010. The conference is scheduled London for April 24, 2010. From the post: This is a time of great change. In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth ...
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• Free Tyndale Monographs…

  
  ???? ??? — Authority: 496
  I was just informed (via. the Agade list) that Tyndale Press Monographs are now open access are available in PDF.  There are a couple interesting volumes related to the HB.   The PDF’s can be found here and here .   Enjoy!
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• Pronto pre-print

  
  Reciprocal Space — Authority: 106
  Without quite meaning to I realise that I have been generating a series of blogposts about the publication process. Initially I wrote about my struggles to finesse the figures needed to show off the important aspects of our structure of the complex of the 3C protease with a peptide substrate. After we had submitted ...
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• Webcast of Khadr Hearing at Supreme Court

  
  Slaw — Authority: 600
  The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing Prime Minister of Canada, et al. v. Omar Ahmed Khadr tomorrow, November 13 — a Friday the 13th, as it happens. There is a webcast of the hearing scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. EDT. You can read the SCC Case Information Summary to get a quick overview of the matter. The ...
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• Open Science: Looking at Dust

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 418
  Open access paper: Migration of Contaminated Soil and Airborne Particulates to Indoor Dust . Indoor dust is a mixture of soil tracked into a residence, particulate matter derived from ambient outdoor air, and importantly, organic matter. Indoor dust is about 40% organic matter by weight in residential housing. ...
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• Learning to share

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 548
  Longish article but fairly good introductory-level coverage of open access publications. The focus is on the scholarship side rather than the teaching side. "Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - thats what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers ...
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• Times Higher Education article “Learning to share”

  
  spineless? — Authority: 465
  There’s a very interesting article in THE today, entitled Learning to share, about open access.  “Open access is, simply, the idea that research articles should be freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone, rather than locked away in subscription journals as many currently are.” Both sides ...
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• Nobelists Support FRPAA

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting that 41 Nobel scientists have submitted an open letter to the U.S. congress. The letter asks congress to support the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which mandates that peer-reviewed articles that resulted from publicly-funded research must be submitted to an ...
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• Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010: Call for Proposals

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 503
  The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010 Call for Proposals is now open! We would be grateful for help in circulating the call to relevant lists and communities! You can reuse or point to: This blog post Main CFP page Plain text announce (wrapped at 72 characters) Identi.ca post Twitter post Open ...
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• Information use by researchers in the life sciences

  
  Be openly accessible or be obscure — Authority: 403
  Life scientists’ information use – one size does not fit all , posted by Sarah Gentleman on Nature Network , November 2, 2009. Excerpt: Key findings from the report include Researchers use informal and trusted sources of advice from colleagues, rather than institutional service teams, to help identify ...
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• Make it a pub

  
  spreadingscience — Authority: 410
  [Crossposted at A Man with a PhD ] by gailf548 Participation Value and Shelf-Life for Journal Articles : [Via The Scholarly Kitchen ] Discussion forums built around academic journal articles haven’t seen much usage from readers. Lessons learned from the behavior of sports fans may provide some ...
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• Staying up to date with twitter services

  
  spreadingscience — Authority: 410
  Part 1: What are Twitter Lists? : [Via Pistachio Consulting Inc. ] This is Part 1 of a 3-part series cross-posted from adelemcalear.com WHAT IS IT? Back on September 30th, Twitter announced on their blog that they would be launching their new Lists feature to a small group of users to beta test. ...
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• Make it a pub

  
  A Man With A Ph.D. — Authority: 434
  by gailf548 Participation Value and Shelf-Life for Journal Articles : [Via The Scholarly Kitchen ] Discussion forums built around academic journal articles haven’t seen much usage from readers. Lessons learned from the behavior of sports fans may provide some insight into the reasons why. [ More ] ...
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• The eBook revolution

  
  A Man With A Ph.D. — Authority: 434
  [Crossposted at Path to Sustainable ] by goXunuReviews Kindle readers beware – big Amazon is watching you read 1984 : [Via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News ] John Naughton says The ebook reader may have advantages over unwieldy printed tomes, but it has unexpected drawbacks. ...
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• Open Access Memberships: Are Libraries Paying Too Much?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 577
  Columbia University drops BioMed Central membership after it discovers it was paying way too much.
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• Ericssons CTO finds new home in Silicon Valley

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  Ericssons CTO Hakan Eriksson will soon have a new set of digs as he relocates to Silicon Valley to oversee the Swedish companys Internet Protocol business in addition to continuing his role as CTO. Erikssons move to the U.S. reflects the growing momentum Ericsson is seeing in two key wireless and wireline segments: ...
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• Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...
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• Towards a DFID Research policy on open access

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 131
  The UKs Department for International Development (DFID) is a major funder of agricultural and development research. A recent news item in R4D reposrts that DFID "supports Open Access as a core component of its research commitment to ensure that research knowledge can be accessed, built upon and used in support of ...
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