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Academic Spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution
Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge. Read More »
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Funders Punish Open-Access Dodgers
For years, two of the world’s largest research funders — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom — have issued a steady stream of incentives to coax academics to abide by their open-access policies. Now they are done with just dangling carrots. Both institutions are bringing out the sticks: cautiously and discreetly cracking down on researchers who do not make their papers publicly available.
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Hiding Your Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral
As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable Read More »
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Open Access: Effective Measures To Put UK Research Online Under Threat?
The universities of the UK should not squander the opportunity to put in place an effective mechanism for making their published research freely available...
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UK's OA Policy Influences Research Assessment
The UK’s system for assessing research and allocating money has added new open-access requirements. Neil Jacobs looks at what this means for researchers in the UK and elsewhere...
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