Category Archives: open access

World Bank Live Event Report: Open Access Policy and Development

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Timothy Vollmer

On Monday, the World Bank hosted an event called What the World Bank’s Open Access Policy Means for Development (you can view the video recording of the event at the link or embedded below). Participants included Peter Suber from Harvard University, Michael Carroll from American University (Mike is on the Board of Directors at Creative [...] Continue reading →

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Sign the U.S. Petition to Support Public Access to Publicly Funded Scientific Research

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Timothy Vollmer

This week, open access advocates in the United States and around the world are rallying around a petition that urges public access to publicly funded research. The petition is now live on Whitehouse.gov’s We the People platform: Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. We believe in the [...] Continue reading →

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World Bank stakes leadership position by announcing Open Access Policy and launching Open Knowledge Repository under Creative Commons

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Diane Peters

The World Bank has announced a new Open Access Policy! Effective July 1, 2012, the Open Access Policy requires that all research outputs and knowledge products published by the Bank be licensed Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as a default. Today, as the first phase of this policy is unfolded, the Bank launched a [...] Continue reading →

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Act now to support public access to federally funded research

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Timothy Vollmer

Last week the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) was reintroduced with bipartisan support in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. According to SPARC, the bill would “require federal agencies to provide the public with online access to articles reporting on the results of the United States’ $60 billion in publicly funded [...] Continue reading →

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Comments to the White House Inquiry on Public Access to Publicly Funded Research Publications, Data

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Timothy Vollmer

In November we wrote that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was soliciting comments on two related Requests for Information (RFI). One asked for feedback on how the federal government should manage public access to scholarly publications resulting from federal investments, and the other wanted input on public access to the [...] Continue reading →

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Reminder: White House wants your input on Public Access to Data and Publications

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Timothy Vollmer

In the U.S., the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released two Requests for Information (RFI) soliciting public input on long term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications. The deadline for responding to the RFIs is January 2, [...] Continue reading →

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Free and unrestricted Public Sector Information: Study finds benefits outweigh costs

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Timothy Vollmer

Governments around the world are increasingly relying on open licenses to release public sector information (PSI). A September 2011 report titled Costs and Benefits of Data Provision, prepared by John Houghton for the Australian National Data Service, examines the immediate and wider economic costs and benefits to making PSI available. The key takeaway from the [...] Continue reading →

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Open Course Library Launches 1st 42 Courses

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Cable Green

On Monday, the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) released the first 42 of the state’s high-enrollment 81 Open Course Library courses. The remaining 39 courses will be finished by 2013. Funded by the Washington State Legislature and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Open Course Library joins the global open [...] Continue reading →

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The CC community participates in Open Access Week 2011

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Jane Park

Open Access (storefront) by Gideon Burton / CC BY-SA Open Access Week, now in its 5th year, is taking place this week, October 24-30. “Open Access to information—the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need—has the power to transform the [...] Continue reading →

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