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2010 Open Access week new twist: Ning Collaboration
Tweet The 4th annual open access week will take place October 18-24, 2010. In an effort to build a collaborative environment, the organizers at SPARC have enlisted the Ning social networking software...
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AACR aggressively raises public donations…while opposing FRPAA and...
Tweet The mission statement of the AACR and its Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer lays out a compelling rationale for individual and corporate support of their efforts: Prevent and cure...
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ASM OA journal mBio challenges OA microbiology champion, PLoS Pathogens
Tweet The American Society for Microbiology(ASM) is one of the most distinguished and successful biomedical science publishers. ASM is already a full participant in PubMed Central for all of its...
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July 27th hearing on FRPAA: Who opposes public access to publicly funded...
Tweet From the ARL SPARC press release: Washington, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National...
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We hold these truths self-evident: the polarity of expanding access to funded...
Tweet On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s...
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Do taxpayers pay for private sector peer-reviewed journal articles?
Tweet On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s...
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Who pays for open access? A video primer from CUL
Tweet The Big Think site brought this video to my attention. As this is a teaching blog, I think it is worth watching, if you are unfamiliar with this notion of who pays and what are the most...
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FRPAA drags; life science foundations not waiting
Tweet I want to compliment the analysis done by Declan Butler in the Nature news blog about the open access shot heard round the world. I’m referring to the announcement that three top-shelf life...
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If academic publishing is broken, can librarians help fix it?
Tweet Michael P. Taylor, one of the Sauropod Vertebra weekly image-posters that recently emerged as a commentator on scholarly communication from his academic vantage point, made a worthy attempt...
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Recent public access hearing testimony – makes for interesting tag clouds
Tweet On March 29, 2012, at 9:30am, the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a public hearing to examine Public...
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