Alice Meadows: "...while most of us agree that OA can benefit authors and readers, it is simplistic to assume that these benefits apply equally across all disciplines. "
A new OA tool from the French, doai.io. If you've found a live DOI Web link that can only take you to a paywall article, then replacing http://dx.doi.org/ with http://doai.io/ will get a URL that tries to find a free version via BASE. BASE is only middling for finding open access articles. It currently has…
Tidsskrift.dk er Det Kgl. Biblioteks nationale portal for publicering af faglige, videnskabelige og kulturelle tidsskrifter i digital fuldtekst.
Tidsskrift.dk er ligeledes en del af Danmarks Nationale Strategi for Open Access, som støttes af Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet.
Kimmo Tuominen, ylikirjastonhoitaja, professori, Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto: "Kiplingin runossa läntinen teesi ja itäinen antiteesi päätyvät veriveljeyden synteesiin. Myös tiedejulkaisemisen käytäntöjen tervehdyttäminen edellyttää kolmatta tietä tieteellisen kommunismin ja kapitalistisen julkaisuteollisuuden välissä. "Teknologisten ja sosiaalisten julkaisuinnovaatioiden lisäksi tarvitsemme etenkin tiedepoliittista kaukonäköisyyttä. Yliopistojen rahoitusmalliratkaisut eivät saa sementoida tiedejulkaisemisen nykymalleja ja pönkittää kohtuuttomasti jo ennestään vahvojen suuryritysten asemaa."
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-Chancellor, University of Salford Events were triggered by the publication on 18th June of the eagerly awaited Finch Report. Chaired by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester,
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