Thursday, July 26, 2012

OA advocate Stevan Harnad withdraws support for RCUK policy

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When on July 16 th Research Councils UK ( RCUK ) published its updated Policy on Access to Research Outputs the Open Access ( OA ) movemen...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

The OA Interviews: Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford, and member of the Finch Committee on OA

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The past month has seen a flurry of activity in the Open Access ( OA ) space, most of it focused on the UK. Martin Hall, Vice-Chancello...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Finch Report and its implications for the developing world

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There are two routes to Open Access . With gold OA , publishers cease to charge readers to access scholarly journals (in the form of subsc...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The OA Interviews: Jeffrey Beall, University of Colorado Denver

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In 2004 the scholarly publisher Elsevier made a written submission to the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee . Elsevi...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The OA Interviews: Audrey McCulloch, ALPSP Chief Executive

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On 1 st June, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers ( ALPSP ), along with the Publishers Association ( PA ), dis...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

The OA Interviews: Keith Jeffery, UK Science & Technology Facilities Council

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Keith Jeffery has been developing ICT solutions to “support, enhance and assist in research and the management of research” since the 1960...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

The UK Publishers Association comments on the Finch Report

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The eagerly awaited Finch Report was published on 18 th June. The Finch Committee , headed up by Dame Janet Finch , a sociologist at the Un...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

The Finch Report in a global Open Access landscape

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Last week I published an interview with David Price , Vice-Provost (Research) at University College London ( UCL ).   Commenting on the...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Finch Report: UCL’s David Price Responds

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The much-awaited report from the Finch Committee was published today. The Committee, headed up by Dame Janet Finch , a sociologist at the...
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