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Category Archives: Open Access
One step forward and two steps back – closing the door on Open Gate and opening the door to NRCRP Gate
So it appears that there is a resolution is sight for Open Gate (the nickname that the $32 Nature Open Access “glitch” got). To follow-up on my previous post on Nature asking users to pay for articles that supposedly were to … Continue reading
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The price for Nature Open Access: $32
Recently Jonathan Eisen of the Tree of Life “discovered” that the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is asking users to pay for access to papers that it has previously committed to keep freely accessible on its website. He has detailed his … Continue reading
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Open Access – the bedrock of academia and the scientific community
There is a letter in yesterday’s The Times by John Sulston and Joseph Stiglitz (both Nobel laureates) about the ownership of science and how it is held back by outdated laws (think about that NPG). I’ll rest my case and … Continue reading
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Timo Hannay vs. Declan Butler on OA
Here’s a clip from a documentary film by Frances Pinter and David Percy about business models in the publishing world that use Creative Commons licenses where Timo Hannay of Nature is talking about open content (not sure how open content … Continue reading
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The Year of Evolution in the age of Open Access
Next year, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth (February 12, 1809), as well as being the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece, “On the Origin of Species” (November 24, 1859). Although much of the upcoming celebrations … Continue reading
