OA Tracking Project

“”Starting today (Oct. 13), students, researchers and the general public will have free access to scholarship that documents people’s everyday lives in communities around the world, in cities as…

“”The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has been given a monetary award for developing the online user-based encyclopedia. The Im Grueene Foundation awarded Wales the Gottlieb Duttweiler Award,…

“Open is better than closed. Transparent is better than opaque. Simple is better than complex. Accessible is better than inaccessible. Sharing is better than hoarding. Linked is more useful than…

Posted by petersuber to oa.ssh oa.business_models oa.new oa.humanities oa.event on Wed Oct 13 2010

”” Without accurate metadata, even searches using Google Book’s Advanced Search feature, which allows you to restrict searches to, for example, author: Dickens, Charles and publication date:…

Posted by petersuber to oa.oa_week oa.boai oa.definitions oa.new oa.presentation oa.comment on Wed Oct 13 2010

Posted by petersuber to oa.prestige oa.quality oa.peer_review oa.new oa.comment on Wed Oct 13 2010

Posted by petersuber to oa.oa_week oa.citations oa.swedish oa.intro oa.new on Wed Oct 13 2010

Posted by petersuber to oa.business_models oa.plos oa.french oa.gold oa.new oa.journals oa.comment on Wed Oct 13 2010

Posted by petersuber to oa.notes oa.green oa.gold oa.new oa.event on Wed Oct 13 2010

“”Over the last year, all the members of Genomes Unzipped have had genome scans performed by personal genomics company 23andMe….From today, we’ll be making all of our raw genetic data and the…

Posted by petersuber to oa.duke.u oa.cope oa.funds oa.gold oa.new oa.journals on Wed Oct 13 2010

“”I [Rufus Pollock] have just posted two new papers on the size of and ‘value’ the EU Public Domain. These papers are based on the research done as part of the Public Domain in Europe (EUPD) Research…

“”We [Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)] are here in Nairobi, Kenya, in the “Multi-site trial database for climate change analysis: Planning and launch Workshop”…and we have BIG ambitions!…

Posted by eastman to oa.government oa.new on Wed Oct 13 2010