The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Aaron Swartz’s Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Written by Aaron Swartz, July 2008, Eremo, Italy “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, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful …
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Open Access Explained! (YouTube 8:23) Robin Good: Few people today are aware of how much scientific knowledge is being restricted and not made accessible to everyone, thanks to existing business model and the exorbitant subscription prices that scientific journals and magazines charge to their subscribers. Since such journals are the key medium through which scientists …
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Open Access and IR Journals By Dan Nexon The Duck of Minerva, Sunday, June 24, 2012 By Dan Nexon Some time ago Thomas Rid had an amazing post arguing for an open-access revolution in our field. I won’t repeat the arguments here; you can read them for yourself. The open-access movement is showing signs of …
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we petition the obama administration to: Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form would provide …
Press Release WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 – The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available …
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A New Service for Open Access Monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books Gary Price From a OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) News Release: OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited …
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Open Access to Scientific Information By Adrian Janes Source: House of Commons Library (UK) Overview: Open Access (OA) to scientific publications could provide more effective dissemination of research and thus increase its impact. The costs and benefits of different models of providing OA to publications need to be considered if a comprehensive shift to OA …
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