NIH Open Access Policy Turns 1 Year Old
Our guest blogger is Gavin Baker, assistant editor of Open Access News, which covers the open access movement, and Outreach Fellow for SPARC, a coalition of academic and research libraries that advocates for open access. The opinions expressed here are [...]
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Gavin Baker |
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
WEISS'S NOTEBOOK
Kicking the Doorstop on Open Access
Since April, researchers publishing work done with NIH support must submit manuscripts for access in a free database. The experiment is working, but large journal publishers aren’t satisfied with the results.
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Rick Weiss |
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
FCC 700 mhz Auction Ends, Fun Begins
The FCC 700 mhz auction ended yesterday, raking in record $19.6 billion for Federal coffers. While the successful sale of the C-block triggers an “open” network provision, questions linger about the unsold D-block license and the future of a national emergency response network.
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Sameer Yousuf |
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Harvard Yard Now Open Access Courtyard
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences made a unanimous decision Tuesday to require faculty members to submit their published articles for inclusion in an open-access database. Unless scholars request a waiver to the policy, they must submit digital copies of their works to the provost’s office.
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Jonathan Pfeiffer |
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
CULTIVATING SCIENCE
Public Science
Free public archiving of Institute-funded research will accelerate scientific communication, control costs in higher education, and more effectively share information.
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Gavin Baker |
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Tools for Open-Access Government: Wikis, Search Engines, Databases
This week saw good news and new thinking on the power of technology to foster open and accountable governance: an article on “Wiki-Government,” a report on the “searchability” of government info, and the launch of a new site offering data on Federal spending.
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Andrew Plemmons Pratt |
Friday, December 14th, 2007