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Industry Voices: In Pursuit of Scientific Hive Mind
David Steinberg | FierceBiotechIT | April 17, 2012
A vocal and active scientific community is clamoring for unrestricted access to scholarly works, a movement known as "open access", while journal publishers largely resist the call...But why is open access important? And even if it becomes a reality, what will we do with all of that information once we get it? Read More »
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Wellcome Joins Chorus Calling for Free Online Access to Medical Research
Ryan McBride | FierceBiotechIT | April 10, 2012
Wellcome Trust no longer wants to pay for medical research that ends up guarded behind a pay wall, and the U.K.'s largest private funder of medical research is considering several ways to bring a proverbial wrecking ball to such pay walls and make research papers available for free online under an open-access framework. Read More »
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