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| How to provide access to all publicly funded science - and save a few billions very year |
| A few days ago, I've reported on the sevices of the library at my new institution, the University of Regensburg. Besides already archiving our raw data and getting ready to host Git repositories with our software (both c...[more] |
| open access libraries publishing Finch Report |
| Posted on Monday 14 January 2013 - 13:33:30 |
| Corporate publishers keep insulting scholars |
| In the wake of the burgeoning Elsevier boycott, Richard Poynder asked the corporate publisher to "get out more", meaning they should start talking to the people they call their 'partners', namely the scholars who provide...[more] |
| publishers open access |
| Posted on Sunday 19 February 2012 - 22:26:42 |
| ScienceOnline09: Midway in the first day |
 First up for me this morning was Bill Hooker's and my session on "Open Access publishing: Future and Present". Because of the presence of several High-School students in the audience, I asked Bill to explain a little mor...[more] |
| ScienceOnline open access |
| Posted on Saturday 17 January 2009 - 21:17:46 |
| The tabloids, gutter press or Boulevard |
 The Sun, Bild, New York Post, Kronenzeitung, Expressen, etc. - almost every country has them: the tabloid press. We all know them, but nobody dares to admit they actually read them. Tabloid readers are usually imagined a...[more] |
| press open access science publishing |
| Posted on Friday 03 August 2007 - 09:22:44 |
| Enjoy our Open Science triple whammy last week. |
| Ok, not all of you will enjoy it, as some of the triple whammy last week was in German, but at least it's a good thing that the general media are slowly picking up on the efforts of scientists to make their work accessib...[more] |
| open science open access publishing media wikipedia radio newpaper |
| Posted on Monday 20 August 2012 - 21:15:01 |
| A setback: JoVE forced to go closed access |
| Maybe I should consider myself lucky. Only now has the credit crunch hit somewhere close to home. And it's not even that close. Many, many others have of course suffered much, much worse. Nevertheless, I feel these recen...[more] |
| JoVE open access |
| Posted on Thursday 02 April 2009 - 17:11:59 |
| The cost of knowledge in Germany |
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| libraries open access publishing costs |
| Posted on Thursday 07 February 2013 - 19:07:36 |
| Full PDF version of the TAZ article on open access |
| I just received the PDF version of the TAZ article on open access, with the cover illustration, photos and all. I've put it in the downloads area so everyone can have a look at it. Pretty nice that an article in a genera...[more] |
| taz open access media politics |
| Posted on Thursday 23 August 2012 - 14:10:14 |
| Science journalists should be the strongest Open Access proponents |
| Listening to this week's Nature podcast I became aware of something I haven't read anywhere else so far. Since this issue of Nature (and the podcast) has "science journalism" as the theme and Maxine Clarke asked us to co...[more] |
| science journalism open access randerson clarke |
| Posted on Friday 26 June 2009 - 13:20:14 |
| The danger of universal gold open access |
| As a strong supporter of any open access initative over the last almost ten years, there is now a looming threat that the situation may deteriorate beyond the abysmal state scholarly publishing is in right now. Yes, you r...[more] |
| publishing open access libraries |
| Posted on Wednesday 07 November 2012 - 23:04:14 |