Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
During the past few months thousands of academics who support open access to research have been boycotting the Dutch publisher Elsevier. The movement, originally referred to as Academic Spring, continued into the summer. Over 12,000 academics are now boycotting Elsevier because of their high subscription fees, often paid by the ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
Wellcome Trust, one of the largest research charities in the world, has announced its plan to launch a free open-access academic journal. The organisation will also more strictly enforce its requirements that scientists it funds allow open access to the published study within six months after publication. The move is ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
An article on the New York Times website this month discussed a new generation of research websites, where scientists can collaborate and share their studies. The article compares "open science" with traditional peer-reviewed journals, quoting researchers that consider the traditional process to be expensive (for the readers), slow and elitist. ...
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