Open access perspectives
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Open Access Week is a call to action for the KM community
Setting the default to open is an essential step for KM research, but it's yet to be completed.
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Paywall The Movie
The documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship focuses on the need for open access to research and science.
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What is the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), and why is it important?
For the discovery, dissemination, and evaluation of all scholarly knowledge to be possible, it is essential to have unrestricted access…
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Open science by design
A recent paper argues that open science should be a fundamental part of any researchers work.
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Report profiles the work of Creative Commons in supporting open knowledge
Key Creative Commons (CC) initiatives include CC Certificates, CC Search, and campaigning against proposed EU copyright laws.
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Research shows that published versions of papers in costly academic titles add almost nothing to the freely-available preprints they are based on
From the all-that-glitters-is-not-gold department.
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Delhi Declaration on Open Access
Open access advocates in India have come together to make the Delhi Declaration on Open Access. Further signatories to the…
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New study reveals the value of open data
A recent study examined the level of ‘open data maturity’ across the EU and Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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How you can be part of the “open movement”, and “work open”
This week is Open Access Week, which provides an ideal opportunity for you to think about how you can become…
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Scholarly and information institutions encouraged to sign up to open access 2020
The open access 2020 (OA2020) initiative has been established to accelerate the transition of scholarly journals to open access.