New Public Access Legislation
In another bi-partisan effort to ensure public access to federally-funded research, Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) have introduced PAPS legislation in the house. The...
View ArticleFoundation launches open access platform for blood cancer research data
On Tuesday, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) announced the launch of the MMRF Researcher Gateway, a new portal that will provide open access to genetic and research data in hopes of...
View ArticleWhat does “the public” think about open access?
As we are approaching Open Access Week, we are reminded that while outreach and conversations about open access within our communities is a valuable thing, a target audience for making scholarly...
View ArticleThe long slog: OA baby steps, great leaps forward, and two steps back
As someone mostly new to the discussion and work of open access, I find some of the most interesting aspects of the ongoing public discourse are the attempts by various players to discredit open access...
View ArticleOpen Access to Agriculture Research: The Food Imperative
How often do we contemplate the origin of our food as we sit down to dinner? Our mission is to eat and enjoy our fare. Most of us need to count on our farmers to enjoy healthy food. An agricultural...
View ArticleOpen Access Week (#oaweek) in DH
Editors Note: Most of the OANow Editorial team has been wrapped up hosting and recovering from our own Open Access Week events, so this post comes from our colleagues over at the DH+LIB blog. They...
View ArticleLibrarians needed to facilitate Open Data
Tim Poisot’s recent blog post on facilitating open data in ecology illustrates a desire to make ecology data open, while admitting that “there are so many peculiarities attached to datasets that...
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Students Launch Open Access Button to Map the Impact of Paywalls
On Monday, the Open Access Button was launched at the Berlin 11 Student and Early Stage Researcher Satellite Conference. The Open Access Button is a new browser plugin that allows users to report when...
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The Best Scholarly Communication Writing of 2013
The Editorial Team at Open Access Now is taking a hiatus to review our goals and workflows (i.e. we all got real busy.) In the meantime, please enjoy this collection of writings that rose to the top of...
View ArticleCHORUS v. SHARE
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/06/04/joining-a-chorus-publishers-offer-the-ostp-a-proactive-modern-and-cost-saving-public-access-solution/...
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