Perhaps this has been said before, but regarding various projects, I envision broad participation from people all over the world contributing to solving the problem, or adapting to local needs, much as open source software is developed. There are now many networking tools on the web which can help us. I have started to use …
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Excerpt from Peter Suber’s Open Access News blog, Sunday, June 17, 2007 – please see OA News for the links: Ales Fajgelj, Assuring Quality of Analytical Measurement Results: The IUPAC Role, Chemistry International, May/June 2007. Chemistry International is the news magazine of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Over the past 30 years …
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Energy Department and Centers for Disease Control documents call for open public access to research ALLIANCE FOR TAXPAYER ACCESSMedia AdvisoryFor Immediate ReleaseMay 3, 2007 For more information, contact: Jennifer McLennanDirector of Communications,SPARCjennifer [at] arl [dot] org (202) 631-8854 Washington, D.C. – May 3, 2007 – Recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has launched a Petition for Publicly Funded Research in the United States. Please sign! For more information, please join us for a special teleconference meeting on Thursday, April 5, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / noon Eastern Time, when Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing Academic Resources Coalition, will …
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Please join Chemists Without Borders for a special series of teleconference meetings on Open Access and Open Source. For more background, please see the link from the Chemists Without Borders website to our Open Chemistry Position Statement. Thursday, April 5 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / Noon Eastern TimeHeather Joseph: Federal Research Public Access Act Heather …
Biology Goes Open SourceMatthew Herper and Robert LangrethForbes February 12, 2007 Excerpt:Some of the world’s biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away. Novartis (nyse: NVS – news – people ), the Basel, Switzerland, drug giant, has helped uncover which of the 20,000 genes …
Please sign the Petition in Support of Guaranteed Access to Published Results of Research This is an initiative to support a European Union policy requiring open access to the published results of research funded by any member of the EU. Organizers welcome international as well as EU signatories. So far, there are over 16,000 signatories, …
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Here is an excerpt from last week’s Nature, Jim Giles’ article PR’s ‘pit bull’ takes on open access, courtesy of Open Access News: The author of Nail ‘Em! Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Businesses is not the kind of figure normally associated with the relatively sedate world of scientific publishing. Besides writing the odd …
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Possibly of interest: Stewart M. Brouwer of Professional Notes mentions an upcoming Forum in Buffalo, Wednesday, November 8. I’m conducting a public forum at the University at Buffalo about developing a new open access drug resource, whole cloth, as a wiki. Potentially, it will be able to be harnessed as an alternative to pricey clinical …
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As of today, the Directory of Open Access Journals lists 58 titles under Chemistry. The list of titles might be of interest to Chemists Without Borders members, as the journals are published in many countries – including Japan, China, Korea, Slovenia, Croatia, Thailand, Turkey, India, the USA, to name a few. One way any Chemist …