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fernandoperez.org@fperez_org13 Dec 2016
Excellent, detailed breakdown of the reasons for avoiding any deals with Elsevier @costofknowledge, by @talyarkoni talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/… – at Oakland, CA

Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier–and think you shouldn’t either

In 2012, I signed the Cost of Knowledge pledge, and stopped reviewing for, and publishing in, all Elsevier journals. In the four years since, I’ve adhered closely to this policy; with a coupl…

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Eoin O'Dell@cearta11 Nov 2016
Amending competition and copyright law to enable open access to universities’ research cearta.ie/2016/11/amending-c… tnx @jjn1 @costofknowledge
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CONCAT@Concat_Leuven17 Oct 2016
New publication: "On the @costofknowledge: Evaluating the boycott against Elsevier" journal.frontiersin.org/arti…
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Anna Vlasits@AnnaIntegrated30 Aug 2016
"Scientists go along, killing any chance of binge-watching their favorite show on Netflix after the kids go to bed." statnews.com/2016/08/26/rewa…

We should reward peer reviewers. But how?

Peer review is a thankless task, but journals have been experimenting with accolades and cash incentives for scientists who serve as peer reviewers.

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Tyler Neylon@tylerneylon3 Jun 2016
A friend is building a site to help move academic publishing into an era of pure open access. Any coders or designers interested in helping?
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By the way, over 16,000 people have now added their name to The Cost of Knowledge. thecostofknowledge.com/
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Mistaking the symptom for the disease: preprints in biomedical science, by @yardenkatz thewinnower.com/papers/4636-…
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Social-sciences preprint server SSRN snapped up by publishing giant Elsevier nature.com/news/social-scien…
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Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name torrentfreak.com/elsevier-co…

Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name * TorrentFreak

Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain...

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Who's reading millions of stolen research papers on the outlaw website Sci-Hub? Now we know. wpo.st/oJYX1
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US government commits to publish publicly financed software under Free Software licenses k7r.eu/us-government-commits…

US government commits to publish publicly financed software under Free Software licenses

At the end of last week, the White House published a draft for a Source Code Policy (Update: the draft is not online anymore, link changed to final version). The policy requires every public agency...

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Tell Congress: Move FASTR on open access to publicly-funded research eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/te…

Tell Congress: It’s Time to Move FASTR

Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available When you pay for federally funded research, you should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of the Fair Access to Science and

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Try out TheOneRepo demo - the goal is to search across all institutional repositories at once: onerepo.net/
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Should All Research Papers Be Free? via @nytimes nyti.ms/1XluoAA

Opinion | Should All Research Papers Be Free? (Published 2016)

One woman’s guerrilla campaign seeks to tear down the paywalls of scholarly journals and make research papers free.

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This renowned mathematician is bent on proving academic journals can cost nothing vox.com/2016/3/4/11160540/ti… via @voxdotcom
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New journal Discrete Analysis launched, with articles published live on arXiv: gowers.wordpress.com/2016/03…

Discrete Analysis launched

As you may remember from an earlier post on this blog, Discrete Analysis is a new mathematics journal that runs just like any other journal except in one respect: the articles we publish live on th…

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@egonwillighagen Thank you!
Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience bjoern.brembs.net/2016/02/sc… via @brembs

Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience

Stevan Harnad’s “Subversive Proposal” came of age last year. I’m now teaching students younger than Stevan’s proposal, and yet, very little has actually changed in the…

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"The Pirate Bay of science" (via @SienceAlert) sciencealert.com/this-woman-…

Researcher Illegally Shares Millions of Science Papers Free Online to Spread Knowledge

Welcome to the Pirate Bay of science.

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In unique deal, Elsevier agrees to make some papers by Dutch authors free news.sciencemag.org/scientif…
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