• Myth 2: All OA journals require publication fees that authors must pay themselves. In fact, 67 percent of OA journals charge no publication fees, and most that do charge fees waive them for authors of limited means. Finally, some funding agencies and institutions pay these fees to assure the widest possible readership.
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Open Access Information » Blog Archive » Scholarly Communication from Gutenbe... - 0 views
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A great history of scholarly communication leading up tot he issues of Open Access
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Enabling Open Scholarship - EOS - Home - 0 views
Open Access journals get impressive impact factors ( Impressive impact factors prove th... - 0 views
Open-access publishing - 1 views
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Prices for traditional journals have increased to the point where even large libraries have had to cancel hundreds of subscriptions.
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Increase your publishing impact through open access" />Electronic Highways
Crowdsourcing Peer Review - Science News - 0 views
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The paper spurred an intense, open, Internet-based effort to understand it and pursue its ideas, attracting such luminaries as Fields Medalists Terry Tao and Timothy Gowers. The examination uncovered deep flaws that are probably irremediable - but has also helped spur on a new model of research.
Science in the Open » Blog Archive » Why I am disappointed with Nature Commun... - 0 views
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Why Cameron is dissappointed in Nature Communications. My synopsis: -NC license terms are bad for science (I agree).
Science in the Open » Blog Archive » PLoS (and NPG) redefine the scholarly pu... - 0 views
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A good history of academic journals