Open Access: no research should be locked behind paywalls!
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Every quarter, we share articles published in the BCN Newsletter and we are happy today to share an interview with Giulia…
Every quarter, we share articles published in the BCN Newsletter and we are happy today to share an interview with Giulia…
The long-term sustainability of Open Source (OS) software depends on its community of developers and core users, as well as…
Author: Ferran Martinez-Garcia is a professor of cell biology and histology and head of the Lab of Functional Neuroanatomy (Neuro…
In 1980 when I published my first paper (Leather, 1980), the publishing world was very much simpler place than it is now. …
(Photo: oldtasty/Flickr)Back when I was a new graduate student, more than a dozen years ago, nearly all scientific journals in…
You think that scientists, being quite clever people, would be able to agree on the best way to rank each other's work. Oh no…
Was this the year open access for science reached critical mass? One hypothesis suggests that a transformative group needs to…
Revisiting a post from 2011 that called for evidence for a better understanding of access to the research literature. Continue…
Foram 5 trabalhos editoriais completados esse ano, 4 em 2012, e 3 em 2011. No momento estou cuidando de dois trabalhos, nas áreas…
Why should you share links to your published work online, and how can you encourage others to do it? According to Dr Melissa…
An estimated 340,000 articles were published by 6,713 full immediate OA journals during 2011. OA journals requiring article-proce…
Much has been written about the Research Works Act [you could do a lot worse than read Saurodpod Mike on the subject], academic…
Accessing the absolute latest in scientific communications directly by the independent amateur or citizen scientist has been a…
Deux articles récents à signaler sur les revues scientifiques en libre accès : CROISSANCE FORTE Tout d’abord, une étude1 sur l’es…
Une étude récemment publiée dans PLoS One indique une croissance soutenue de la publication dans des revues savantes à libre-accè…
Update July 5, 2011 - that there are now more than 10,000 OJS installations (thanks to Kevin Stranack), up more than 1,000…
A recent study by Mikael Laakso et al ‘The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009′ published in PLoS…
Tucked away in this Scientific American discussion (reprinted from Nature) of the latest paper outlining the growth of open…
By John Whitfield of Nature magazineA study of open-access publishing--published last week in the open-access journal PLoS…
A new study into the growth of open access publishing has highlighted…
Last week was a week of very necessary catching up with a lot of paperwork I had purposely allowed to accumulate, with…
Few can now doubt that open access (OA) to scholarly research is set to become an important feature of the scholarly…