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Category Archives: Open Access
Response to House of Commons Committee Call for Evidence on Open Access
This week it is the turn of the House of Commons to investigate the UK policy on open access. No-one seems to be quite sure if they are co-ordinating things with the House of Lords, which was looking into this … Continue reading
Open Access: journey without end?
The Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords, the second chamber in the UK parliament, met this week to hear evidence from various stakeholders on the implementation of government’s policy on open access. In three separate sessions, which … Continue reading
Response to House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Call for Evidence on Open Access
In the UK the parliamentary House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology is conducting an enquiry into the implementation of the government’s policy on open access. Last Tuesday they took oral evidence from Dame Janet Finch (which you … Continue reading
Year
The Christmas holiday has unmoored me. End of year exhaustion segued into a bout of ‘flu that knocked me onto my back, where I lay and ached, semi-detached by illness and medication as around me my family made preparations for … Continue reading
Posted in Libel Reform, Open Access, Science & Politics, Scientific Life
Tagged CaSE, Libel reform, open access, review, Review of 2012, Science Policy
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We need to talk about open access
Last week I spoke on open access at the annual conference of Research Libraries UK (RLUK). I did so at the end of a session that also featured Dame Janet Finch, who had chaired the working group set up by … Continue reading
That was the open access week that was
A round-up of some of the issues that got an airing during Open Access (OA) Week and in the days that followed, including more rumination on the implementation and implications of the RCUK OA policy, more bad (and some good) … Continue reading
Imperial debate: light and heat on the RCUK open access policy
It is two weeks since the meeting organised by the Imperial College Science Communication Forum to discuss the new open access policy announced by Research Councils UK (RCUK) in the light of the Finch Report. Richard Van Norden of Nature chaired … Continue reading
Open Access Juggernaut Hits London
Everyone’s talking about open access (OA). It has been a year of dramatic developments in the drive to liberate access to the research literature and the blogosphere is buzzing with excited chatter. Well, perhaps not everyone and not even the … Continue reading
Key Questions for Open Access Policy in the UK
It’s not even two months since the tectonic plates shifted underneath academic publishing in the UK. But in the few weeks since the government’s response to the Finch report and the announcement of the new open access (OA) policy of the UK Research Councils … Continue reading
Write Right
If you thought I was done open access, think again. The taunting of the journal impact factor beast in recent posts was necessary because it is blocking the path to free dissemination of the research literature and the omnivorous creature … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Open Access
Tagged open access, PLOS ONE, Public engagement, Writing
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Sick of Impact Factors: Coda
My ‘Sick of Impact Factors‘ blog post seems to have struck much more of a chord than I anticipated. At the time of writing it has attracted over 12,900 page views and 460 tweets, far higher than my usual tallies. The … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Scientific Life
Tagged Impact Factors, open access, science publishing
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Sick of Impact Factors
I am sick of impact factors and so is science. The impact factor might have started out as a good idea, but its time has come and gone. Conceived by Eugene Garfield in the 1970s as a useful tool for … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science
Tagged impact factor, open access, scientific publishing
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