Biden to unveil…#openaccess DB to advance cancer research
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/biden-to-unveil-launch-of-major-open-access-database-to-advance-cancer-research/2016/06/05/8918c442-2b30-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html Impressive that @VP singled out a bioinformatics project
European leaders call for immediate #OpenAccess to all sci papers by
’20 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers Spearheaded by Holland, home to Elsevier
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“goal is part of a broader set of recommendations in support of open science, a concept that also includes improved storage of and access to research data. The Dutch government, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, had lobbied hard for Europe-wide support for open science, as had Carlos Moedas, the European commissioner for research and innovation.
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We probably don’t realize it yet, but what the Dutch presidency has achieved is just unique and huge,” Moedas said
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“Bill Hart-Davidson, MSU’s associate dean for graduate education, suggests that the likely answer is “text-mining,” the use of computer programs to analyze large collections of documents to generate data. When I called Hart-Davidson, I suggested that the East Lansing Sci-Hub scraper might be someone from his own research team. But he laughed and said that he had no idea who it was. But he understands why the scraper goes to Sci-Hub even though MSU subscribes to the downloaded ” “}}
Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone freely available data on @scihub usage
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.q447c
Debate rages over availability of history dissertations in NYT: Does a 6-year embargo make sense? http://bit.ly/13VgQCD via @ivanoransky