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Debating Open Access
Twelve months after the publication of the Finch Report, during which the new RCUK policy on open access has been published, dissected, debated (including by committees in both Houses of Parliament), revised and implemented, it seems an apposite moment to step back and take stock. Read More »
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Finch Access Plan Unlikely To Fly Across The Atlantic
Felice Levine, executive director of learned society the American Educational Research Association, told the Academy of Social Science's Implementing Finch conference last week that the Finch report on open access had been "noticed" in the US. Read More »
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One Size Fits All?: Social Science And Open Access
The third post in our small series on open access, publication shifts on the horizon and how it all matters to IR and social science, this time by David Mainwaring [...]. Read More »
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Open Access: 'We No Longer Need Expensive Publishing Networks'
Higher education institutions need to recognise the changing world of publishing, says Rupert Gatti – it's time for academics to take matters into their own hands Read More »
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Open Access: A Response To Sean Guillory
My most recent blog post (on MOOCs) dealt with digital teaching. Less than a week after it appeared, Sean Guillory wrote an important piece on Sean’s Russia Blog regarding digital scholarship, to wit, the importance of open access for Russian historians. [...] Read More »
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PeerJ Leads A High-Quality, Low-Cost New Breed Of Open-Access Publisher
A one-off fee allows researchers to publish as many papers as they like. The first open access PeerJ articles appear today Read More »
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Tutorial 19b: Open Access Definitions And Clarifications, Part 2: Gold And Green
Last time, we looked at what the term “open access” actually means. We noted that its been widely abused, so that when you need to be specific about the full meaning you need to say “BOAI-compliant”; we recognised that much of what is described as OA is really only “gratis OA”, or as Ross Mounce called it, “gratis access”; and we noted that the term “libre open access” is literally meaningless and should be avoided. Read More »
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UK House Of Commons Select Committee Publishes Report Criticising RCUK’s Open Access Policy
The House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee has today published a critical report on the Open Access (OA) policy introduced on April 1st by Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »
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We Need To Talk About Open Access
Last week I spoke on open access at the annual conference of Research Libraries UK (RLUK).[...] Read More »
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