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Access Tokens V. Open Access: A choice for authors in Future Science

Tweet I do occasionally look at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) web site, if only to compare their tag-line  Shaping the Future of Learned and Professional Publishing with their behavior.   For instance, their April 2011 report  Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications acknowledged my [...]

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Wed, July 13 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments

We hold these truths self-evident: the polarity of expanding access to funded scientific research

Tweet On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee that FRPAA would seriously threaten the scholarly publishing industry: “Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research [...]

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Fri, August 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Columbia University Libraries take note of where researchers publish

Tweet Back in December Peter Suber mentioned on his blog that Columbia University has joined leading institutions such as Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley in a commitment to a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity. The compact commits signatories to the timely establishment of mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication fees for open access journal articles authored by researchers [...]

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Sun, March 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments