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- Yolo library works with UC Davis for 'Big Read' - Daily Democrat Online
- Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Borrow Kindle Books for Free
- How To Free Your Work | QuestionCopyright.org
- Open Access and Social Media
- At Open-Access Meeting, Advocates Emphasize the Impact of Sharing Knowledge
| Yolo library works with UC Davis for 'Big Read' - Daily Democrat Online Posted: 13 Nov 2011 05:09 AM PST www.dailydemocrat.com "The UC Davis Department of Evolution & Ecology/Center for Population Biology, in partnership with the Yolo County Library, will sponsor the first "Big Read: Open Access Science" for Yolo County residents this winter. The Big Read will feature the book "Here is a Human Being," by Duke University Assistant Professor Misha Angrist. "Here is a Human Being" is the first book to be part of this collaboration between UCD and the Yolo County Library. The general public is urged to read the book and discuss the issues it raises...." |
| Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Borrow Kindle Books for Free Posted: 12 Nov 2011 11:21 AM PST gizmodo.com "This morning Amazon launched their Kindle Owners' Lending Library which lets owners of their popular ebook reader, who also subscribe to their Prime service, choose from thousands of free titles to borrow without a due date...." |
| How To Free Your Work | QuestionCopyright.org Posted: 12 Nov 2011 11:18 AM PST |
| Posted: 12 Nov 2011 10:44 AM PST Digital Humanities Now, (11 Nov 2011) "Below are links to several pieces about the effects of social media on open access scholarship. Also included is a bibliography focused on the impact of open access scholarship...." |
| At Open-Access Meeting, Advocates Emphasize the Impact of Sharing Knowledge Posted: 12 Nov 2011 08:25 AM PST Wired Campus, (11 Nov 2011) "Impact, not ideology, was the watchword at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference, held here on Wednesday and Thursday at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The 260 high-level researchers, fund providers, and open-access advocates who attended didn’t waste time bashing publishers who keep research behind paywalls. (Some commercial publishers, including Elsevier, attended.) Instead they focused on the benefits of putting research quickly and freely into the hands of scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. “One or two people in this room will die in the next five years because of research that didn’t make its way to clinics fast enough,” one presenter, Cameron Neylon, told the crowd. Mr. Neylon, a biophysicist, is a senior scientist at Britain’s Science and Technology Facilities Council. He spoke at a session on how open access can create new opportunities for business as well as for scholarship...." |
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