Sunday 3 June 2012

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)

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The rise of libre open access

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 08:49 AM PDT

 
The rise of libre open access
www.earlham.edu
"In the past few months we've seen a sharp upturn in the momentum for OA on several fronts: researcher activism for OA, researcher criticism of high journal prices, researcher understanding of OA issues, OA policy deliberations at major institutions and governments, and mainstream media news and comment. Here I want to focus on a relatively neglected front where progress is also accelerating: libre OA. I've been tracking gratis and libre developments for years, and I've never seen such a sudden rise in the number of policies and initiatives going beyond gratis to libre, and going beyond the more restrictive end of the libre spectrum to the less restrictive end...."

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