Presentations on access to public sector info
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/24/2006 05:43:00 PM.
Geoportail, Gallica, Quaero
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/24/2006 03:18:00 PM.
More on OA v. security
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/24/2006 07:53:00 AM.
More on the CNRS self-archiving recommendation
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/24/2006 07:45:00 AM.
More on the Royal Society hybrid OA journals
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/24/2006 07:23:00 AM.
OA database of Costa Rica's biodiversity
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 11:15:00 PM.
More on the Royal Society hybrid OA journals
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 09:41:00 PM.
Forthcoming OA journal on medical education
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 05:46:00 PM.
Profile of Brewster Kahle
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 05:08:00 PM.
Many roads to open access
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 03:56:00 PM.
More on Nature's coverage of PLoS' finances
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 03:47:00 PM.
Deficient skills as access and usage barriers
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 03:34:00 PM.
Encouraging OA archiving at France's CNRS
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 03:00:00 PM.
Historian on Wikipedia on history
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 02:18:00 PM.
Following the action at the iCommons iSummit
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 01:44:00 PM.
More on the PLoS finances
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 09:32:00 AM.
More on the Royal Society Open Choice policy
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 07:36:00 AM.
More results on Oxford's OA experiments
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2006 07:15:00 AM.
Easy way to ask your Senators to support FRPAA
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 06:26:00 PM.
Promoting the digital diffusion of knowledge
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 05:19:00 PM.
Create more change
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 04:46:00 PM.
OA journal processing fees by the page
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 04:08:00 PM.
More on the Royal Society hybrid OA journals
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 03:55:00 PM.
Librarians educating faculty about OA issues
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 11:07:00 AM.
Another approach to OA
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 09:49:00 AM.
Comments on Declan Butler's story on PLoS
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 09:27:00 AM.
Japanese researchers' attitudes toward OA
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 07:51:00 AM.
Confirming the OA impact advantage, again
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 07:47:00 AM.
Cancer-patient advocacy group joins ATA
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2006 07:39:00 AM.
Which author-side fees are high?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 09:31:00 PM.
21st century scholarly publishing
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 09:09:00 PM.
Making ETDs the rule rather than the exception
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 05:16:00 PM.
PLoS finances and self-archiving
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 04:45:00 PM.
More on the Springer suggestion to amend FRPAA
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 04:42:00 PM.
More on the call for an OA mandate at NIH
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 02:24:00 PM.
Profile of AlouetteCanada
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 01:06:00 PM.
Adding CC licenses to Microsoft docs
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 12:48:00 PM.
More on who opposes OA
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 11:42:00 AM.
OA defenders at the U of Toronto
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 11:04:00 AM.
ACS editorial against FRPAA backfires
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 10:40:00 AM.
Eprints joins the ATA
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 10:08:00 AM.
More on the PLoS fee hikes
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2006 05:22:00 PM.
Help for DSpace managers
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2006 12:20:00 PM.
More on the fee hike at PLoS
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2006 11:56:00 AM.
Closed-mouthed about OA in orthodontics
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2006 11:25:00 AM.
OA policies at funding agencies and universities
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2006 10:27:00 AM.
More on OA for lay readers
�Would the enactment of this law give scientists a false sense of serving the public (by virtue of making their work available online), when in fact most scientific, jargon-filled articles can�t or won�t be read by most lay people?�
As the commenter above suggests, most people won�t find the open literature that interesting, or will find it difficult to comprehend. The main beneficiaries of the bill are researchers, and the public benefits secondarily since the bill helps to maximize the performance of public money in the support of research. That said, we should not discount the range and breadth of public interests or the public capacity to use even arcane technical reports and papers....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2006 09:59:00 AM.
Interview with the developer of ChemRefer
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2006 09:13:00 AM.
More on the evolving OA policy at the CIHR
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/19/2006 11:24:00 PM.
Eric Lease Morgan's trend spotting
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/19/2006 11:25:00 AM.
More on PLoS ONE
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/19/2006 11:19:00 AM.
ALPSP and STM support OA data
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/19/2006 09:48:00 AM.
Measuring the citation impact of books
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/18/2006 10:24:00 AM.
Book authors should self-archive metadata
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/18/2006 09:03:00 AM.
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