Mendeley were bought outright this week by Reed Elsevier, the Dutch publishing house who publish more than 2000 scientific journals, including the Lancet. Victor Henning is joined by Jason Priem of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of a recent horizon scanning feature in Nature, to discuss the future of science publication and how this wealth of research will be managed in the future.BBC Radio.
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Report calls on government to back open access science
Report calls on government to back open access scienceBBC on Finch Report (see Finch Report post on June 19th 2012).
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UK to make academic research available free on the net
UK to make academic research available free on the netThe UK plans to give the public access to academic research via the internet free of charge.
Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales might have agreed to advise the UK government on how to ensure the move would promote “collaboration and engagement”.
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