Continuing our Open Science Stars interview series, today we're happy to bring to you Graham Steel, a relentless campaigner for all things Open! Hi Graham, and thanks for joining us here! Could you...
Read ItOne issue that I've been following for a number of years is so called MegaJournals. Mega journal as defined on Wikipedia. Cue ' Open Access and The Dramatic Growth of PLoS ONE' which I wrote for th...
Read ItEarly on Sunday morning (21st August 2016), I spotted the following ( anonymized) #icanhazpdf request tweet:- After spotting this, I did indeed find that the publication of this Charles Darwin pap...
Read ItOriginally posted here by Marcus Banks. Re-blogged in verbatim with permission to do so. Following Aaron Swartz's tragic suicide in 2013, there was a brief flurry of attempts to honor his legacy by...
Read ItOn 3rd December 2015, I used the writetothem.com website to establish names and contact details for my MEPs. This threw up five, and I messaged them urging them to argue for reform of Copyright to ...
Read ItThe following post is by Graham Steel. It is an adaptation of a five minute lightning talk given at Glasgow's 1st Open Knowledge Foundation meet-up. Commencing in 2001, I became involved in the Cha...
Read ItA brief exchange on Twitter yesterday between @David_Dobbs , @para-sight and to a lessor extent myself, reminded me of a story from 2007 that until now, has never been told and prompted me to writ...
Read ItLate last week, I was contacted by an online contact asking if I would be interested in participating in an interview:- Do you want to be possibly interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Ed about a...
Read It<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, eNeur...
Read ItThis is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, Science Advances. In addition to the welcome diversification in journal choices for authors looking for open acce...
Read ItThe Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) is an open access journal, which publishes peer reviewed software papers. Software papers describe open source software for research with high reuse pot...
Read ItThis is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, Science Advances. In addition to the welcome diversification in journal choices for authors looking for open acce...
Read ItRussia-based neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan founded the website Sci-Hub in 2011. The site currently offers 47 million otherwise-paywalled academic papers to view and download, at no direct mo...
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