The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to make research papers immediately free to read — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt all the plan’s policies. See Also: Open Access @ Phi Beta Iota
Between this and the Goggle vs. Oracle ruling, it was a great week. All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020 All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020. EU member states want to achieve optimal reuse of research data. They are also looking into a European visa for …
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Open access repositories start to offer overlay peer review services Converting open access repositories into functional evaluation platforms Bringing back quality control to the scientific community The use of journal hierarchy for assessing the reputation of research works and their authors, has contributed to a competitive environment that is having a detrimental effect on scientific reliability. …
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The battle for open-access information A PhD candidate’s online open-access publishing forum is a boon for those wishing to access texts and transcripts free. Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, …
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Athabasca Open Access Literary and Scholarly Resources Athabasca University, Canada’s open university, provides free and open online access to a world wide repository of digital journals and monographs.
“Open Access Antiquarianism is the collective madcap efforts of an archaeologist, a computer scientist, and a structural engineer to push the boundaries of what is possible in the interface between technology and cultural heritage, art and diagnostics. Excerpts from Stephen Wilson’s Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology that aptly illustrate why Open Access …
Students Re-Launch Open Access Button App to Find Free Access to Scientific and Scholarly Research Millions of people use research everyday. From students, medical professionals, to curious hobbyists, we all benefit from being able to access, read, and cite reliable, tested information. But getting the research we need can be hard and costly when it’s …
