@costofknowledge
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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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Felix Reda@Senficon10 Sep 2015
Why academics need to lobby for copyright reform. My speech at #EPIP2015 juliareda.eu/2015/09/academi…
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RIO Journal@RIOJournal1 Sep 2015
Publish your ideas before actual research has even started! @RioJournal riojournal.com youtube.com/watch?v=2QKp4Ttp…

Research Ideas and Outcomes

SPARC Innovator Award Winner 2016 The Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal publishes all outputs of the research cycle, including: project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software, project...

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Michael Shermer
@michaelshermer9 Dec 2014
This explains a lot about rising college costs. Tuition increase ratios are about the same. Digital textbook solution
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Team BOYCOTT @davidecarroll, @MahalwarPrateek, @rmounce + 15,000 others #opencon2014 cc @costofknowledge @mbeisen
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SPARC@SPARC_NA6 Jun 2014
Beyond the Boycott: Q&A w/ Timothy Gowers. Includes 4 ideas to create meaningful change sparc.arl.org/news/beyond-bo… @costofknowledge #openaccess
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OpenCon@open_con28 May 2014
We're live! @Open_Con to be held Nov 15-17 in Washington DC to supercharge next gen projects on #OA #OER #OpenData: righttoresearch.org/act/open…
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Awful to hear of the loss of Jean-Claude Bradley, pioneer of Open Notebook Science. Read this 2010 interview infotoday.com/it/sep10/Poynd…
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Open Science@openscience19 Feb 2013
Scientist, (please) meet version control: from personal workflows to open collaboration: buff.ly/XkVb0g #openscience by @fperez_org 
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Heather Piwowar@researchremix13 Jan 2013
Dear President Obama, could you please respond to the #OAMonday petition now? 52,795 signatures +counting petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet… #pdftribute
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Tyler Neylon@tylerneylon9 Oct 2012
I'm speaking about The Cost of Knowledge at this year's Open Science Summit, Oct 19/20 in Mt View. Science! opensciencesummit.com/
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Jonathan Eisen
@phylogenomics3 Oct 2012
"Academic paywalls mean publish and perish" -interesting #openaccess Opinion piece by @sarahkendzior aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio…
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Replying to @costofknowledge
@costofknowledge Scholarpedia is a great resource but not reuse-friendly & thus not Open Access in the BOAI sense en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budape… #oa
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Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly9 Jun 2012
Open access to research is inevitable, says Nature editor-in-chief bit.ly/KQRcHu I think so too
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Open Science@openscience21 May 2012
We the People petition the @WhiteHouse for #openaccess to taxpayer funded research :: sign wh.gov/6TH and share #OAMonday
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Fake Elsevier@FakeElsevier21 May 2012
#notsatire: Please watch and distribute this video: vimeo.com/42549003 #OAMonday
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