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NCBI - Meeting the challenge

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The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is supportive of open data and sharing data to further collaboration and research in the biosciences.

Go Jimmy

wikipedia.jpgWikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has been recruited by the UK government as part of its move to make all taxpayer-funded academic research from the UK freely available online.

Who’s passionate about Open Access?

Comprendia.JPGComprendia Bioscience Consulting Group has developed an interesting way to demonstrate who is passionate about Open Access using Google maps. They have collected 11 months of geographical information on Twitterers utilising #openaccess hashtag, totalling 43,000 tweets by 12,000 twitterers. <a href="http://Who's Passion

UK Government to open up access to research

guardian.jpg Open access to research has long been a topic of concern in the academic field. Beginning with open access to articles, and whole journals, the movement has been followed by opening up access to data, including government data.

Good Nature(d)

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Meeting expectations

sherpaj.jpg Many grant-making bodies expect the peer-reviewed outputs of research they fund to be made freely available, usually within a given time frame. This is their way of ensuring the widest possible dissemination of the research they fund.

"Wellcome" news

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Scientific results should be made freely available to the public within six months of first publication, according to Sir Mark Walport, the director of the Wellcome Trust.

It's all good

cedrep.jpg The US National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy has long been controversial. The policy requires NIH grant-holders to deposit manuscripts in PubMed Central no later than a year after the version of record is published.

Opening the books

doab.jpg Soon to come after the Directory of Open Access Journals, and the Directory of Open Access Repositories is the Directory of Open Access Books. The beta version of the service will be made public in early (northern hemisphere) spring this year.

Roll on Open Access: Elsevier withdraws support for the Research Works Act

Elsevier has announced that it has withdrawn its support for the US Research Works Act (HR 3699). In their announcement they explain: We are ready and willing to work constructively and cooperatively to continue to promote free and low-cost public access through a variety of means, as we have with research funders and other partners around the world.

You may read Elsevier's announcement: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/newmessagerwa