Tag Archives: Peter Suber

Budapest 10 Years After: The World Knows What Open Access Is?

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

At the Budapest Open Access Initiative 10th Anniversary meeting that was held in Budapest on February 14th, Alma Swan, who also chaired the discussion, has chosen Peter Suber, Stevan Harnad and Heather Joseph from the group, to recap the main … Continue reading →

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Open Access Year End Highlights: Coming Up Roses?

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

How to look geeky on your last day at work? Pick out the year end highlights in Open Access and take much joy in it. A remarkable year, 2011, powerful both in discourse and action around the movement, with far … Continue reading →

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New Term: Open Access Prime

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

Open Access Prime, or OA marked with an inverted comma as in OA’ is a new term defined in Peter Suber‘s recent newsletter as the literature that is OA in every respect expect that it is offline. It is digital, … Continue reading →

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Open Access as Humanitarian Aid: In Times of Disaster and Every Day

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

“Will you take this woman Matti Richards To be your awful wedded wife” (Dylan Thomas, Under Milkwood) We seem to refuse the idea of constant open access to research as we would hold on to a pillow in a nightmarish … Continue reading →

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Open Access in Croatia – Storing Hamster Food or Running in a Hamster Wheel?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Home could be where you hang your head, like Groucho Marx said, or it could be from where you turn your head and decide not to watch. However, now and then, a letter from home arrives and convinces you to … Continue reading →

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Open Access Makes Good Financial Sense

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

The new SPARC Open Access Newsletter has just rolled off the virtual presses. SPARC is the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, and is, in its own words, “an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances … Continue reading →

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Open Access To Humanities – Data, Data Everywhere But Not a Thought To Think

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

The title quote belongs to Theodore Roszak, the man behind the making of the counter culture of 1960s, and the one who “raged against the machine” most violently. However, could a “machine” herald a new era of providing thoughts instead … Continue reading →

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The Great Book Robbery Project – Open Access To Win Back the Palestinian Books

Posted on November 30, 2010 by

But I do know that the stranger can never go back to what he was. Even if he returns. It is over. A person gets ‘displacement’ as he gets asthma, and there is no cure for either. (Mourid Barghouti, “I … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week Mandate Adoption Challenge Collected 16 New Mandates

Posted on November 4, 2010 by

Green and gold leaves float down to earth. Nature’s rich October harvest. (Open Access Haiku) The repetitive stress on Open Access Week 2010 as the most successful and the most fruitful open access week yet, is much desired. “October 2010 … Continue reading →

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