This week, the National Research Council is holding public comment meetings on increasing public access to federally funded research—both access to the data and publications. We encouraged the UCS Science Network to weigh in with their own ideas on how the government can increase public access to its science. After all, this is the science that we all pay for through our tax dollars.
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.
The Open Book Project (OBP) – a joint initiative between the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALESCO) and the US State Department – will focus mainly on science and technology. It came about after the first US-Arab League Dialogue last year.Nature.
The new data release policy is part of the deliverables detailed in the Digital Management Strategy, which the Office of Management and Budget released in May. It calls for a new policy for open data, content and web API standards within six months. The policy is now two months late.Federal News Radio.
Paul Jump thinks that Report draws US notice and that experts say journals will not ‘play RCUK game’.
U.S. telecommunication giant Verizon tries to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Rules by having a constitutional claims for the right to edit the internet pending at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
If Verizon’s current assertions were allowed to prevail, the consequences for American society and our economy would be very grave. Every aspect of business and social conduct increasingly depends on access to information and collaboration on the Internet.
The National Science Foundation (USA) nvites reporters to participate in a live webcast on citizen science on Tuesday, July 31, at 3:00 p.m. EDT.
This webcast will cover how citizen scientists are helping to advance science, the rapid growth and future of citizen science, and the Frontiers issue and conference on citizen science. The August 2012 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which is published by the Ecological Society of America (ESA), is titled Citizen Science-New Pathways to Public Involvement in Research and is available for free download starting at 12:01 a.m. on August 1 on the Frontierswebsite. This issue is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
This video was produced by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition): http://www.arl.org/sparc
Video on USA petition for open access by FakeElsevier.
Visit www.access2research.org and sign the White House petition. We are closer than ever to making open access to taxpayer funded research a reality.
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University of Colorado: Initiative is advocating for a legislative bill that, if passed by Congress, would make academic journals more accessible in the sense that tax-funded research shouldn’t be bought back by students. In 2011, CU library spent $7.5 million on serials.
Essentially, the legislation would expand the National Institutes of Health public access policy — which already guarantees that research funded by the NIH will be accessible to the public — to additional agencies, including departments of defense, agriculture, education, commerce, health and human services, homeland security and transportation. It would also apply to the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation.