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Tearing down barriers to accessing research: The Open Access Button

A very neat tool to visualize the ubiquity of paywalls that restrict the access to scientific results and to improve the access to scientific work is now available as a plugin for the most popular webbrowsers. 48 more words

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Who are the innovators in academic publishing? by Ellen Collins

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Open Access publishing for agricultural sciences

Publishing open access should become the gold standard for international agricultural research for development.

The fact that most funding comes from public sources of charity organizations makes hiding research results behind… 410 more words

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The (im)possibility of Academic Credibility

A recent post on the retractionwatch website ‘revealed’ that a journalist was able to successfully submit a ‘spoof’ article to a series of open access journals despite the article containing glaringly obvious errors. 1,141 more words

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