Tag Archives: scientific research
What papers that are open access can cause
Jack Andraka, the recipient of the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, in an interview.The opportunity cost of paywalled research
My eye was caught by this tweet: https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/330747014340018177 And I found myself wondering how often this scenario plays out around the world every day. (…) How many thousands of valuable conversations never happen because you can’t idly browse at $15 a pop?
Open access aids science research
Says - Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner on politico.comOpen access to this research has been debated for several years. Advocates have argued that the ability to freely access government-funded information is not only fair but also enables innovation otherwise stymied by pay walls and restrictive websites. Scientific advances are collaborative. Innovation sparks further innovation as researchers exchange ideas.
Germany: Ministry of Justice declares secondary utilisation rights to authors of scientific publications.
This means that all publicly-funded research and science is open access - at least 12 month after publishing.
See also this blog post on Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover Blog.
Both in German.
Why isn’t there a Kickstarter for Scientific Research?
Follow the discussion and see also our last post concerning REDDIT.http://vimeo.com/54197772
Open Aire, building an open data infrastructure for research in Europe, now combines in its services resources from different platforms.
The presentations of the Open Aire Conference here.
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Open Access to scientific research can save lives
Open Access to scientific research can save livesPeter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project, and Darius Cuplinskas, director of the Information Program at the Open Society Foundations, want open access to become the default method and vote for the development of effective open-access policies.
The economic benefits of open access are estimated to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The decision to place the results of the Human Genome Project in the public domain without delay, for example, helped ensure that scientists everywhere can use the data. The $3.8-billion investment in the project has had an estimated economic impact of $796-billion.