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Amy West

Liveblog: BRDI: Author Deposit Mandates for Federal Research Grantees : Gavin Baker - 0 views

  • DC Principles Coalition: We believe in free access to science, within the constraints of our business models.
  • The public doesn’t need access to the full articles
  • The problem is that consumers want everything for free.
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  • Repositories can do all the functions of journals except quality control, and we don’t want government doing that.
  • Social sciences often left out of discussions about data curation, open access, etc.
  • We could argue that taxpayers paid for the research in general, not necessarily each publication.
  • But the Public Access Policy requires the peer-reviewed manuscript, not the one after which the publishers add value. The America COMPETES model, for un-peer-reviewed grant proposals, is almost useless to the public. In health, you want the refereed results, not the grantee’s report to the agency.
  • If journals can’t survive, from an economic perspective, that’s not harm — it’s just a failure to adapt.
  • Journal growth trends with funding for researchers. As universities want to be more prestigious, they aim to publish more. Trying to have access to everything requires too much money — you have to prioritize.
Lisa Johnston

Data Preservation and Policy - 11 views

Policy issues at the national level are of particular interest to those involved with e-science initiatives. Several organization have emerged at the forefront of this arena and it will be particul...

policy national mandate grant

started by Lisa Johnston on 05 Nov 08 no follow-up yet
Lisa Johnston

HPCwire: SDSC Cloud Supports New NSF Mandate for Data Management - 0 views

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    Standard "on-demand" storage costs for UC researchers on the SDSC Cloud start at only $3.25 a month per 100GB (gigabytes) of storage. A "condo" option, which allows users to make cost-effective long term investment in hardware that becomes part of the SDSC Cloud, is also available. Full details can be found at https://cloud.sdsc.edu/hp/index.php.
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