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An Open Invitation To OpenCon
Last November, 75 students and early career researchers from 35 countries gathered in Berlin to advance campaigns led by the next generation for an open system of academic publishing. The results of their collective effort since have been extraordinary...
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Award Winning Open Access Academic Publisher PeerJ Raises Series A Investment From SAGE And O'Reilly
Academic publisher SAGE and PeerJ Inc., publisher of the Open Access journal PeerJ and pre-print server PeerJ PrePrints, are pleased to announce that SAGE has led a new investment as part of a second round of funding for PeerJ...
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Dutch Universities Dig In For Long Fight Over Open Access
Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge...
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Hospitals Remain Underinvested in Costing Technologies, Black Book ERP Survey Results
An inert healthcare enterprise resource planning software sector grew less than 2 percent in 2015 as hospitals turned available technology funding to conflicting priorities such as ICD 10 conversions, cybersecurity, population health and analytics, with less than 29 percent of all US hospitals having implemented any ERP product. As provider executives face compounding value-based risk decisions, recent interest in ERP has climbed sharply according to a recent Black Book survey of 1,158 health system procurement and technology leaders in the fourth quarter of 2016....
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How Will Open Access Affect The Humanities And Social Sciences?
How open access will affect the humanities and social sciences sector (HSS) has been a topic of hot debate, one that has been called even more into focus since the new RCUK OA policy became effective on 1 April this year. Read More »
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Open access is a development issue – the status quo needs to be challenged
South Africa is doing some amazing research but cannot share it globally because of restrictive copyright laws or unreasonable policies and embargo periods set by publishers. South African authors cannot become known and cited if their works are locked up behind expensive paywalls, accessible only to a limited audience. South African students and researchers also need access to the best international and local up-to-date journals, books and other research to be able to contribute new knowledge in their fields. This is the reason open access is so crucial for South Africa and other developing countries.
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Sage launches open access Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
SAGE has announced the launch of a new international open access journal, the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine (OJSM). Read More »
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SAGE's Open Access Medicine And Engineering Journals: Now Open For Submissions
SAGE today announced that all three of their latest open access journals are now open for submissions – SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. Read More »
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Survey: 80% Of Physicians Use EHRs, Many Favor VA's System
A majority of health care providers reported using an electronic health record system, with the Department of Veterans Affairs' VA-CPRS system scoring the highest, according to a new Medscape survey, EHR Intelligence reports...
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The Opportunities And Challenges Of Online Open-Access Publishing
This week around 7,000 political scientists will descend on Washington for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)... The theme of this year’s meeting is “Politics after the Digital Revolution.”...
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Universities 'Get Poor Value' From Academic Journal-Publishing Firms
Research finds secrecy over contracts has stopped some institutions realising they are paying too much for journals
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An Open Invitation To OpenCon
...This year’s Open Access Week will celebrate these efforts with the theme Generation Open, and this fall, the Right to Research Coalition and SPARC will launch OpenCon, a new conference to support, connect, and catalyze student and early career researcher-led projects across open access, open education, and open data. The meeting will be held on November 15-17 in Washington, D.C...
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