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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Open Access”
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Developing Own Internet Business
Make Cash Online Today —
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Network marketers are businessmen. They are owners of business and as a rule they appreciate their time and money. With every new day more marketers prefer to work through Internet and get quick development of their structures. Somebody has quick development and others slower one, but all they have the same problem- ...1 day ago -
The Creative Commons Toque
Slaw —
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Last week Leslie Ellen Harris correctly pointed out in her Slaw post Using Flickr Photos that we should not assume content available on the web is freely available without copyright. She gave photos on Flickr as the example. One thing I love about Flickr, however, is that it allows us uploading photos to designate ...1 day ago -
Survey on the Use of Digital Repositories
Open Education News —
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Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting on a survey on the use of digital repositories and open access. Unfortunately, the PDF is not open access, so Baker’s summary will have to suffice. From the post: About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open access to their research ...1 day ago -
Number crunching - What £10bn buys you
Railway Eye - the railway blog —
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This from The Vice Marshall ... I have just travelled from Crewe to Euston, arriving 12 minutes late on a non-tilting Pendolino, running at conventional speeds through all the curves, but which was able to go up to 125 mph where permitted. The train originated at Manchester Piccadilly (departing on time ...1 day ago -
Two things about Euler that I learnt today
Entertaining Research —
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From Rolf Jeltsch’s colloquium in the Mathematics Department are the following: [1] Euler was probably one of the earliest mathematical modellers: for example, he turned the Koenigsburg bridge problem into one of graph theory; and, apparently, he is also the first one to consider control volumes in fluid dynamics ...1 day ago -
Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
Deep Sea News —
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Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the biodiversity of the oceans. That program, the Census of Marine Life, started in 2000 with the goal “to advance a major ...1 day ago -
Giving Open Access a Bad Name
The Scholarly Kitchen —
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Scientist, editor, and OA advocate Jonathan A. Eisen rages against an infamous author-pays OA publisher.1 day ago -
Oberlin College Adopts Open Access Policy
DigitalKoans —
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Oberlin College has adopted an open access policy . Heres an excerpt from the press release : The Oberlin College General Faculty unanimously endorsed on November 18 a resolution to make their scholarly articles openly accessible on the Internet. As a result of the measure, the rich scholarly output of the ...2 days ago -
Education before JSTOR
IMproPRieTies —
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Frank Furedi : The transition from one generation to another requires education to transmit an understanding of the lessons learned by humanity through the ages. How true. Unless youre JSTOR .2 days ago -
And the winner of most nimble new science journal web site is mBio
The Tree of Life —
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Kudos to mBio the recently announced new open access journal from ASM. I posted a little bit about it a few days ago. There was some back and forth in the comments w/ people involved in the journal and, impressively, they have already modified some sections of the web site to clarify some of the things I and ...4 days ago -
Sustaining Open Access Databases
Open Education News —
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The journal Nature has posted an editorial on sustainability and open access databases. From the editorial: Governments must ensure that at least one of their national funding agencies has money specifically set aside for the long-term support of bioresource infrastructures. Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open ...4 days ago -
More on German Open Access
Open Education News —
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Cornelius Puschmann has a new post on the German open access petition ( reported by OEN ). From the post: My opinion (and not just mine) is that Open Access should be treated as the broad societal issue it really is, not just as a nifty way for libraries to save money or researchers to communicate more effectively. ...4 days ago -
Laser therapy can worsen skin cancer
Thaindian News —
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London, Nov 20 (IANS) Pain relieving, anti-inflammatory ‘cold laser’ causes increased skin tumour growth, says a new study.Jan M. Bjordal from Bergen University College, Norway, worked with a team of Brazilian researchers to carry out experiments in the lab and in living organisms. “High irradiances (radiation) ...4 days ago -
A co-operative open access operator?
Railway Eye - the railway blog —
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This from Rail-news.com ... Go! Co-operative www.go-now.coop , is gathering momentum in its aim to become the UK’s first co-operatively-owned Train Operating Company (TOC), and has appointed three new board members to take the organisation forward to operational stage. Apparently the first route proposed " ...5 days ago -
Innovative projects in the publishing of OER
Random Stuff that Matters —
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In October, University of Toronto participated in the world-wide Open Access Week with a number of different events . I got the honor of starting off with the first event (although I believe there was one event the week before), with a presentation about Innovative projects in the publishing of OER. I’ve always ...5 days ago -
Free Technology Academy
Open Education News —
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Wytze Koopal has tweeted about the launch of Free Technology Academy. The courses can viewed and taken freely, but teaching support will only be provided to enrolled students. From the announcement : The Free Technology Academy opens its doors to students. The registration process for the first 2 courses has ...5 days ago -
If You Wanted to Build a National 100-Mbps Access Network, Could You?
IP Carrier —
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The Federal Communications Commission says it will cost $350 billion to build a single, nationally available broadband access network operating at 100 Mbps and reaching virtually every American. The FCC also says it is studying whether telcos and cable companies should be forced to offer open access to third parties ...5 days ago -
Grand Central - you dont have to be md to work here...
Railway Eye - the railway blog —
Authority: 144
The Fact Compiler has received a piece of PR puffery from Grand Central. Their PR, the soi disant veteran observer, witters... Charles Belcher joins Grand Central... he has been Managing Director of a number of Train Operating Companies... Indeed. So now theres three former TOC MDs at the open access ...5 days ago -
Distance education could address dearth of teachers: Sibal
Thaindian News —
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New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Distance education, via cell phones and other technology geared to provide open access to education, could address the dearth of teachers plaguing the Indian education system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.“There is a need for distance education (in India) ...5 days ago -
Article-level metrics getting attention
Be openly accessible or be obscure —
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The very interesting publication Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact Export by Cameron Neylon and Shirley Wu ( PLoS Biol 2009(Nov); 7(11): e1000242 [Epub 2009(Nov 17)][ PubMed Citation ]) is receiving attention on FriendFeed [ here ] and Topsy [ here ] and has been bookmarked on ...6 days ago
