open access movement

Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution

Submitted by mmillard on Tue, 2012/04/10 - 11:31

How a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost-boycott-scientific-journals

Wellcome Trust joins 'academic spring' to open up science

Submitted by mmillard on Tue, 2012/04/10 - 10:31

Wellcome backs campaign to break stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared free online.

Link to article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust-academic-spring

Open Access for Research and Researchers

Submitted by mmillard on Fri, 2009/11/27 - 14:33

"Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments.