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- 41 Nobelists, including Varmus, write open letter to congress supporting Federal Research Public Access Act 10 November 13:03
- Responding to community feedback - DeepDyve and PLoS - Q & A 04 November 10:01
- PLoS at ASTMH 2009 - Booth 501 30 October 14:20|2 comments
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- Open Access Week
International - hold an event where...
19 October at 09:00 - Drinks reception for PLoS Medi...
Cambridge, UK
15 October at 15:30 - Open Access Day
PLoS San Francisco office
14 October at 15:30 - ISMB 2008
Canada
19 July at 02:30 - PLoS ONE Meet Up in SF, next T...
The Thirsty Bear Bar
10 July at 17:30
Below is an extract from the letter which you can read in its entirety here http://tinyurl.com/nobelfrpaa "The open availability of federally funded research for broad public use in open online archives is a crucial building block in laying a strong national foundation to support accelerated...
Over the past few days, a company called DeepDyve, who run a search engine that we use on the PLoS.org website, announced a rental service for research articles...
PLoS.org Article Level Metrics: what they are and why you should care - free talk by Pete Binfield (Publisher, PLoS) 11.9.2009 http://www.library.ucsf.edu/node/2042
Source: www.library.ucsf.edu
On November 9, simulcast to the Rock Hall Auditorium from 12-1:30 pm, Peter Binfield of the Public Library of Science will give a lecture about “article-level metrics.”
PLoS is getting ready for this year's ASTMH meeting (Washington, D. C., November 18–22), where you’ll find us at Booth 501 in the exhibition hall. ...
PLoS.org The global impact of OA week 2009 - http://bit.ly/2MjtnR
International awareness week marks new beginning for enabling the Web and advancing research through
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The first International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23) may have just come to a close, but the broad spectrum of initiatives that it showcased ensures that Open Access to research will play a central ...
We’re delighted to announce the publication of “Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease”, a collection of essays, perspectives, and reviews that address the question – will genomics help prevent the next pandemic? This ...
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Will genomics help prevent the next pandemic - new PLoS collection live today http://ploscollections.org/emerginginfec
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PLoS Collections: Article collections published by the Public Library of Science
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The first African OA mandate - how the University of Pretoria got there http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/docs/
Source: www.library.up.ac.za
PLoS.org Major UK funder comments on the scale and pace of OA developments - "probably now an unstoppable movement" http://tinyurl.com/oaunstoppable
Source: tinyurl.com
This week has seen “Open Access Week” with large numbers of events, announcements and similar awareness-raising activities. It’s an excellent indication of the current environment that ...
PLoS.org Open up Yale - students call for OA http://tinyurl.com/openupyale
Source: tinyurl.com
Yale’s Faculty Handbook highlights “two of the University’s essential purposes: to impart knowledge and to enlarge humanity’s store of knowledge.” As the Handbook is a guide to help professors further ...
PLoS.org George Mason (drafted Virginia bill of rights) Statue dressed up to support OA week http://tinyurl.com/oagmstatue
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That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity;namely, ...
PLoS.org Uni of Washington and Harvard win best OA medical article of the last 5 years in PLoS Med competition http://tinyurl.com/oamedarticlewinner
Source: tinyurl.com
October 20, 2009–A study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Harvard University has been named the best open-access medical paper of the past five years by the journal PLoS Medicine.
PLoS.org Wellcome Trust announces greater OA funding and calls for publisher transparency during OA week http://tinyurl.com/extra2millionforOA
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This Open Access Week, the Wellcome Trust calls publishers to counter arguments that access is paid for twice - through subscriptions and publication fees.
