by jzilm | Feb 15, 2013 | News, Open access
Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Mike Doyle and Kevin Yoder Introduce Bill Expanding Access to Federally Funded Research WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Kevin Yoder (R-KS) today introduced legislation to increase the openness,...
by jzilm | Feb 15, 2013 | News
The University of Victoria Libraries supports the Canadian Library Association's position on the libel suit against Dale Askey and urges Edwin Mellen Press to drop this suit which UVic Libraries considers to be an affront to academic freedom. Future purchase of...
by jzilm | Feb 14, 2013 | News, OA policies & mandates, Open access
SPARC Europe | February 11, 2013 | Janna Wellander Fred Friend carreid out an analysis of funder OA policies for SPARC Europe – results are available at: http://sparceurope.org/analysis-of-funder-open-access-policies-around-the-world/
by jzilm | Feb 14, 2013 | News
The Chronicle | February 11, 2013 | Stacey Patton “The dissertation is broken, many scholars agree. So now what? Rethinking the academic centerpiece of a graduate education is an obvious place to start if, as many people believe, Ph.D. programs are in a state of...
by jzilm | Feb 12, 2013 | News, OA journals, Open access
PeerJ, the peer reviewed open access journal, launched today! See the PeerJ Blog: http://blog.peerj.com/