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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open access”

• Thankful for…

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 501
  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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• Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 547
  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 ...
  21 hours ago

• Who Owns Science? The Manchester Manifesto

  
  open... — Authority: 559
  One of my heroes, Sir John Sulston, has a piece in the Guardian today with the intriguing headline "How science is shackled by intellectual property": The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment ...
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• Yoghurt Rail goes multimodal?

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 144
  First there was Yoghurt Rail ... Now theres Yoghurt Air ! Coming to an aerodrome near you soon.
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• Promoting Open Source Science

  
  open... — Authority: 559
  Open source science certainly seems to be catching on lately: there have been as many articles on the subject in the last few months as in the prevous few years. Heres a good one, an interview with Walter Jessen. This is his definition of what open source science means: Open Source Science is a collaborative ...
  2 days ago

• Developing Own Internet Business

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 153
  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- ...
  3 days ago

• The Creative Commons Toque

  
  Slaw — Authority: 596
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Survey on the Use of Digital Repositories

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Number crunching - What £10bn buys you

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Two things about Euler that I learnt today

  
  Entertaining Research — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 496
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Giving Open Access a Bad Name

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 540
  Scientist, editor, and OA advocate Jonathan A. Eisen rages against an infamous author-pays OA publisher.
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• Oberlin College Adopts Open Access Policy

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 479
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Education before JSTOR

  
  IMproPRieTies — Authority: 504
  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 .
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• And the winner of most nimble new science journal web site is mBio

  
  The Tree of Life — Authority: 491
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Sustaining Open Access Databases

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• More on German Open Access

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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. ...
  6 days ago

• Laser therapy can worsen skin cancer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  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) ...
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• A co-operative open access operator?

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 144
  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 " ...
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• Innovative projects in the publishing of OER

  
  Random Stuff that Matters — Authority: 406
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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