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WFU Libraries are working on creating an institutional repository and Reynolda campus fund for paying open access publication fees. Q&A; Open Access fees: Interestingness that some disciplines have to pay huge costs to publish their ...
two roads to open access science information
Kumiko Vezina, Electronic Resources Coordinator at Concordia University, was a guest lecturer on Open Access in our Science & Technical Information class this evening. Vezina has been performing research on open access science ...
Signs that social scholarship is catching on in the humanities
Recently several prominent humanities scholars have voiced strong support for open access publishing. For instance, Nick Montfort has stated that he will no longer review articles for non-open access journals. Likewise, dannah boyd has ...
Peter Suber on “What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access?”
... and Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a JD, both from Northwestern University. He writes the Open Access News weblog and the SPARC Open Access ...
Open education report by UNESCO
Susan D'Antoni, Open Educational Resources: The Way Forward, released March 7, 2008. The report is the result of online discussions facilitated by UNESCO's International Institute of Educational Planning to identify priorities for the ...
links for 2008-03-12
WSJ carries an oped very supportive of the open access movement. (tags: openaccess publishing research libraries journals health science journal knowledge newmedia news opensource open). IWPR: Taleban Declare War on Mobile Phone Firms ...
HearingExchange Interviews Captioning Company Project readOn Co ...
We think this is awesome in every respect because it has put the issues of ‘access’ out in the open for these campaigns, and has shown that it doesn’t have to be difficult to provide captioned versions of web video for this type of ...
On OA for publicly-funded research in history
By freeing us from the burdens of cost recovery that private information providers face and private foundations increasingly impose, federal funding helps us provide pertinent, high quality, open access information resources that reach ...
Elsevier allows free use of limited content in MIT OpenCourseware
As a result of this landmark agreement, select Elsevier content can now be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license. The Elsevier content includes ...
Free Trial for Academic & Corporate Institutions
Bentham Science offers academic and corporate institutions a 2-month FREE online trial to all all 70 titles. This free trial offers researchers the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the quality and content of Bentham titles. ...