Tweet Kudos to the SOAP Project and their intention to share the highlights of their survey data openly. The data was just posted in the arXiv.org repository: Yes, I downloaded the 21.5 MB XLS .csv version of more than 43,000 survey responses by scientists. Using a simple find all command, I can sort out an analyze a [...]
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Tweet I kept looking at the home page for the Ranking Web of World Repositories, maintained by the Cybermetrics Lab (CSIC), with both admiration and confusion. Repositories are the backbone of the green open access movement, and here were comparative statistics for institutional efforts all over the world. There is even a banner across the [...]
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Tweet The 2nd annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) is taking place this week, August 22-24, at the President Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic One of the most eagerly expected presentations was given on August 23rd, the First results of the SOAP Project (large PDF, be patient). There is also a SlideShare version of the presentation.
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