Open Access

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Open Access”

• When Less Is More: The Upside of Paywalls and Delisting from Google

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 555
  Rupert Murdochs recent moves have challenged the widely held notion that Google and the traffic it generates are essential to a successful web publishing business. Is it better to have lots of freeloading readers or a much smaller group of paying customers? Could the rumored search engine subsidies help support ...
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• A Library Card Under the Christmas Tree

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 555
  Twas the month before Christmas, and by listening hard, you can hear Joe Esposito yearn for a library card. The reasons are simple, yet give publishers pause. No wonder Joes only hope is with Santa Claus.
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• Answer to booze problems may lie in cannabis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, December 1 (ANI): Putting cannabis in place of more harmful drugs may help in winning the fight against substance abuse, say researchers.Amanda Reiman, University of California, Berkeley, USA, carried out the study at Berkeley Patient’s Group, and found that 40 per cent of the 350 cannabis users quizzed ...
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• CMAJ To Drop Open Access In January

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 719
  The Canadian Medical Association Journal has announced that it will cease being an open access journal beginning in January 2010 with plans to restrict some content to subscribers. Canadian medical researchers who wish to publish in an open access journal can still publish in Open Medicine , a peer-reviewed, ...
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• CMAJ to Cease Being an Open Access Journal in January 2010

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 430
  CMAJ , which has been an open access journal since 1995, will cease being so in January 2010, when some content will be restricted to subscribers. Heres an excerpt from the " No Longer Free for All ": The harsh economic reality is that CMAJ , like many others in the publishing industry, has experienced a ...
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• Net Neutrality Update

  
  RedState — Authority: 803
  I’ve been held underwater by work lately and am just now catching up with this thing called “posting,” so forgive me if this post is light on links and details, but I want to give you all a heads up on what’s coming down the pipe in the Obama/Google administration. The big project after Net Neutrality is ...
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• Updates sent to Twitter, November 2009

  
  Be openly accessible or be obscure — Authority: 107
  Updates related to OA, sent to Twitter during November 2009 : Four ideal types of repositories [ November 30 ]: http://bit.ly/6CvyPd http://ssrn.com/abstract=1506905 RT @ mercpol : The academic journal racket … [ November 28 ]: http://tinyurl.com/y8cq97d Fwd: Giving Open Access a Bad Name « The ...
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• Where to now?

  
  Global Health Ideas — Authority: 116
  “What I really want to know is: are things getting better or are they getting worse?” – Laurie Anderson Driving back from the Lesotho border, my eye caught the last brilliant light of the day on a young man carrying wood he had gathered for the fire. I thought back to the teenagers who guard cows all day, ...
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• HBO-Council Signs Open Access Declaration

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  The HBO-Council , an organization of universities in the Netherlands, has signed the Berline Open Access Declaration. From a Google translation of the announcement: “Results of research must find their way unimpeded into education, the field researchers and thereby contribute to knowledge creation and knowledge ...
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• Universities, synthetic biology, digital publishing and translational medicine

  
  Professor Douglas Kell's blog — Authority: 110
  This week was topped and tailed by University visits, the first being to the University of Exeter , who under the very able leadership of Vice Chancellor Steve Smith (who left Aber in 2002 at the same time as I did) and more proximately in Biology of Nick Talbot have grown their biosciences substantially and with ...
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• Open Science/Access challenge

  
  Blind.Scientist — Authority: 100
  Image via Wikipedia A quick challenge, mainly because I’m lazy as hell to do these kind of things: if you advocate Open Science or Open Access, please leave a comment with your list of publications on PubMed or your own website/repository.
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• Harnessing Openness in Higher Education

  
  open... — Authority: 559
  Surprisingly, perhaps, education was one of the late-comers to the openness party (couldnt be all those fiercely protective academic egos, could it?) Happily, ground is rapidly being made up in areas like open access, open courseware and open educational resources (OER), with a steady stream of important studies ...
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• Free access is here to stay

  
  Slaw — Authority: 609
  Free access to legal information in Canada is here to stay. Of that fact, there can be no doubt. Bob Berring, the man who has triggered the recent Slaw debate on the future viability of free services, sounds like a man from the past, nurtured on West and Lexis and very happy with the services that they provide. ...
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• University of Guelphs School of Environmental Sciences Adopts Open Access Policy

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 430
  The University of Guelphs School of Environmental Sciences has adopted an open access policy. Heres an excerpt from the policy : Researchers in the School of Environmental Sciences commit to making the best possible effort to publish in venues providing unrestricted public access to their works. They will ...
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• Harold B. Lee Library and Instructional Psychology and Technology Department at BYU Adopt Open Access Policies

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 430
  David Wiley, Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, reports in the Iterating toward Openness blog that faculty in the Harold B. Lee Library and the Instructional Psychology and Technology Department at BYU adopted open access policies in November. Heres the ...
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• Improvements to CanLII Legislative Databases

  
  Library Boy — Authority: 128
  CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute that offers free Internet access to primary Canadian legal material, has made a number of improvements to its databases of federal and provincial legislation . The improvements include: automatically generated table of contents to federal legislation stable URLs ...
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• The Source: news about digital libraries and library innovations from around the web

  
  LibraryTechNZ — Authority: 410
  Introducing The Source Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections From the D-Lib Magazine website Issues of copyright and permissible use have swirled around efforts to digitise print book collections. Sharp debate has ensued over the circumstances in which ...
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• Thankful for…

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 480
  In no particular order or context. No personal stuff and by no means a complete list: Wordpress (like, duh). Wikipedia (default for looking up new stuff) Wikis in general (great lab management tool. Don’t need LIMS) Open Access Publishing and Creative Commons licensing. FLOSS licensing ...
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• Lactium: more rubbish from Boots the Chemists. And a more serious problem

  
  DC's Improbable Science — Authority: 100
  We have listed many reasons hear why you should never trust Boots.  Here are the previous ones. Can you trust Boots? Don’t Trust Boots Boots reaches new level of dishonesty with CoQ10 promotion This post is about a "functional food".  That is about something a bit more serious than homeopathy, though ...
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• Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 576
  Ive been following an interesting exchange on the BOAI mailing list based on this paper comparing the value of institutional archives versus sector-wide archives (Ive abbreviated the title in the title of this post). Favoring the former, Stevan Harnad suggests "Institutions are the universal providers of all ...
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