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Anti-RWA fervor, meet self-reliance: Pre-Prints and Post-Prints can change the world

Tweet It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.   Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self-Reliance (1841)   Obscured  in all the [...]

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Thu, January 26 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments

So the postprint says to the preprint, why so blue?

Tweet And the preprint says, ahhh…Miles Davis…. Blue in Green. Stevan Harnad has issued a polite request to SHERPA/RoMEO to update their color scheme.  Stevan’s logic speaks for itself.   Here he is on another occasion, making important points about green open access:    

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Mon, August 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments

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

Elsevier is pale green: Encouragement to self-archive pre-prints for public access

Tweet [I have received the comment below from Stevan that pale or not, Elsevier is fully green. I stand corrected. ] Green open access refers to self-archiving pre-prints and post-prints of research articles, essentially freeing research results from the closed silo of subscription access. Here is Stevan Harnad’s graphic depiction of maximized research access and impact through [...]

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Thu, January 13 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment

Open Access and Open Data: Similarities and Differences

Tweet Open Access to Refereed Research Publications and Open Access to Research Data: A Crucial Strategic Distinction Stevan Harnad Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences Université du Québec à Montreal & School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton

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Tue, November 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Open Access @ UNT Speaker Stevan Harnad explains the OA Advantage

Tweet The Open Access @ UNT Symposium on May 18 featured a keynote address by Stevan Harnad, the über evangelist of the green open access movement.  Dr. Harnad has a standard address about the benefits of pre-print self archiving that translates into the open access advantage. This carefully edited video transcription also works in Harnad’s [...]

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Thu, July 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments