Open Access to Research Can Save Lives - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher...
This year a high-school student in Maryland announced that he had invented a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer. The test costs three cents per use. It works 168 times as fast and more than 400...
View ArticlePutting Dissertation Online Isn't an Obstacle to Print Publication, Surveys...
Are you a science graduate student worried that making your thesis or dissertation available online will hurt your chances of getting it published? Gail McMillan, director of the digital library and...
View ArticleWhite House Announces Wide-Reaching Open Access Policy
"On Friday afternoon, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum containing some pretty big news (PDF): all federal agencies with annual research or development...
View ArticleAnthropology journal will convert to open access format | Inside Higher Ed
"The American Anthropological Association announced on Monday that it will be converting the journal Cultural Anthropology to an open-access format, accessible free of charge to anyone, as of January...
View ArticleRice's Open Textbook Arm to Double Its Offerings | Inside Higher Ed
"OpenStax College, the year-old Rice University startup that produces free online textbooks, will more than double the number of fields in which it has titles by 2015, the university announced today."
View ArticleMuseums Mull Public Use of Online Art Images - NYTimes.com
"any museums post their collections online, but the Rijksmuseum here has taken the unusual step of offering downloads of high-resolution images at no cost, encouraging the public to copy and transform...
View ArticleHalf of 2011 papers now free to read : Nature News & Comment
"Search the Internet for any research article published in 2011, and you have a 50–50 chance of downloading it for free. This claim — made in a report1 produced for the European Commission — suggests...
View ArticleOpen access: six myths to put to rest | Higher Education Network | Guardian...
"Open access to academic research has never been a hotter topic. But it's still held back by myths and misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better. The good news is that open access has...
View ArticleSPARC Applauds Senators Durbin and Franken for Bill to Make College Textbooks...
"Washington, D.C. – The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) today applauded Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Al Franken (D-MN) for introducing the Affordable College Textbook...
View ArticleOpen Textbooks Could Help Students Financially and Academically – The...
As the price of college textbooks continues to increase, more students are opting to skip the books even if their grades suffer, a survey conducted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group has found....
View ArticleOpen Access Week 2014 | Northeastern University Libraries
Join Snell Library to celebrate the 8th annual international Open Access Week, which highlights the importance of expanding access to research, from published articles to data sets and more. See below...
View ArticleCelebrate Open Access Week With Us! Oct. 20-26, 2014
Are you: …a scientist hoping to maximize the audience for your research? …a student who’s tried to access a journal article through Google and hit a paywall? …an early career researcher concerned about...
View ArticleA sneak-preview site for research hits a big milestone - Ideas - The Boston...
"Academic researchers are known for keeping their work close before they publish it in order to avoid getting scooped. At the same time, research thrives on the open sharing of ideas and information....
View ArticleWalters Art Museum goes CC0 | OpenGLAM
"In 2012, the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, became one of the first American cultural institutions to adopt an open license model for their digitized collections. Using a Creative Commons...
View ArticleResearchers Are Pushing Back Against Elsevier's Open-Access Publishing Fees -...
"Imagine you’ve spent the last few years writing a manuscript. You submit it to a publisher, and they make you an offer: They’ll print it, but once it’s published, they own your work. They’ll sell it...
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