Washington, DC – SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank have announced they will co-sponsor the kickoff event for Open Access Week 2012 on Monday October 22nd in Washington, DC. The live event will take place at the state of the art World Bank facilities and will host a Liveblog and Webcast via live.worldbank.org for those who cannot attend in person. The event…
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Registration is now open for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, to be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa from 7-8 November 2012. Registration is also open for Pre-conference Workshops to be presented on 6 November 2012. The theme of the Conference is Networked scholarship in a networked world: participation in Open Access. The programme will be made available on the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference…
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SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) announces this year's theme is "Set the Default to Open Access" for Open Access Week (October 22 – 28, 2012). Our first online event to launch this year’s events will be a webcast with three speakers who will showcase the state of open access in each of their countries.
Please join us Tuesday June 19th at 10am Eastern US Time! RSVP at …
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Welcome and hello from SPARC! We are looking forward to another action-packed OA Week on October 22-28th!
It’s been an amazing year for Open Access across the globe so what better way to continue progress than to get inspired for your own OA Week events! Use our many downloadable files available to personalize your own events with posters, stickers, and tons of OA information. It’s…
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Advances in Open Access à la Nature Publishing Group
With its recent launch of Light: Science and Applications, an open access (OA) physical sciences journal, and several more OA…
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Dear colleagues,
The moment has come when all the thoughts, ideas, the initiatives and the best experiences concerning Open Access to find a streamlined expression capable to set in motion a vector for actions in Romania.
To this purpose, The Understanding of Open Access has been launched. It is a document with a double significance: “understanding” as a consensual agreement among the signatories and “understanding” meaning a good apprehension of the concepts behind…
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Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Max Planck Society and the Academy of Science for South Africa, has the pleasure of announcing that the prestigious Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. This will be the…
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There are a number of reasons why some countries publish more than others but it is no real surprise that the USA produces the most scientific papers. Over the period 1999-2009 there were 2.9 million scientific papers published in the USA according to Essential Science Indicators at Thomson Reuters (see infographic) (http://sciencewatch.com/dr/cou/2009/09decALL/). This is considerably more than the next two countries in the top 20…
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The Dutch Malaria Foundation was founded in 2010. We are committed to a world without malaria. We want to achieve this by combining integrated, responsible pest control with…
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If anyone is in the area, come by and say hi!
The Lied Library is hosting two scholarly communication presentations for
Faculty & Graduate Students:
Monday, October 24, noon to 1 (Amargosa Room)
“Discover Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research”…
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The taskforce will work on the following issues:
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"It is possible," says the doorkeeper, "but not at the moment."
-Franz Kafka, 'Before the Law'
I know: that term, 'paradigm shift'. It embodies its own contradiction: easier said than done.
Declarative rather than performative. Simply saying it does not make it…
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From my blog "Copyright on Campus"
Is academia at war with the publishing industry? Today, University of Michigan Dean of Libraries Paul Courant wrote that publishers have declared war upon us. Columbia University's James Neal…
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