Sentences with phrase «access advocates»

Although that's what most observers expected, it's not what open - access advocates hoped for.
Open - access advocates say that will limit what people can do with the papers.
Despite the relatively small budgets being considered, who pays for them was an issue for two group of direct access advocates.
This year's awards dinner honored outstanding college access advocates from across Michigan.
In a victory for open access advocates, two U.S. lawmakers yesterday dropped a bill that would have banned the National Institutes of Health from requiring that its researchers submit their peer - reviewed manuscripts to a public archive.
This Journal is hosted by Western Michigan University and its co-editors are Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. and Christopher Tremblay, Ed.D, both college access advocates in Michigan and beyond.
The petition, on the White House website, was launched by Access2Research, a group of four open - access advocates who were frustrated by the lack of progress on the issue and so are trying a new tack.
Regardless of the «attack dogs» hired by traditional publishers to craft their message, public access advocates remain undeterred.
Mathematician and open access advocate Timothy Gowers recently wrote on his blog that «Elsevier is lobbying very hard to get all mention of open access removed from the Horizon 2020 documents.»
The petition was launched on 13 May by a group of open access advocates including Heather Joseph, executive director of Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition in Washington, D.C. «Requiring the published results of taxpayer - funded research to be posted on the Internet... would speed the research process and increase the return on our investment in scientific research,» the petition states.
However imperfect, the Archambault analysis is welcome, says open - access advocate Peter Suber, director of Harvard University's Office for Scholarly Communication.
Open - access advocates such as University of California, Berkeley, biologist Michael Eisen slammed CHORUS when publishers announced the program last year.
College access advocates look at those numbers and want to double down on reform, seeking to improve the quality of remedial education, or to skip it entirely, encouraging unprepared students to enroll directly in credit - bearing courses, or to offer heavy doses of student support.
In this FCAN webinar, Rachel Fishman, Senior Policy Analyst at New America's Education Policy program and author of New America's College Decisions Survey, and Troy Miller, FCAN's Associate Director for Research and Policy, discussed the survey's findings and how they can help policymakers and college access advocates tailor their strategies for greater impact.
College access advocates need to develop long - term structural solutions to these disparities such as equitable school finance laws and more generous financial aid policies.
«Language Access Advocates Call for Greater State Court Coordination Main Practitioners Say FCC Unlikely to Undergo Major Policy Shift with New Chief»
And access advocates hope it signals a new climate of openness under new Chief Justice John Roberts Jr..
While open access advocates have successfully guided their universities into more sharing - friendly policies, those same institutions have been reluctant to revisit their patenting practices.
Nathan has received more than 40 awards, the most recent being the 2012 Kentucky College Access Advocate of the Year by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.
You can report a completely confidential tip and access an advocate 24/7.
Downing Street said Mr Hughes — who abstained in the Commons vote on raising tuition fees — agreed to take up the unpaid role as an «access advocate» to persuade parents and children from poor backgrounds they will be able to afford a university education when the new fees come into effect.
► Later, at ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that «[o] pen - access advocates are heralding a Senate panel's approval [that day] of» the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, which «would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer - reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
Public - access advocates are hoping that the White House will act on its own by issuing an executive order or memo requiring that agencies develop public - access policies.
Open - access advocates, like Sci - Hub's founder, Alexandra Elbakyan, contend that freely sharing research promotes faster innovation.
In a case that's likely to raise the hackles of open - access advocates, Gómez faces up to 8 years in prison for posting another scientists thesis on the Internet.
Jon Tennant, an open - access advocate and a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, likes the concept.
«Paying reviewers for editing papers has been a subject of discussion for quite some time, but it's actually never been tried,» says Graham Steel, an open - access advocate and community manager at the ContentMine, a literature mining initiative.
Eisen and other open - access advocates have also pushed governments to require immediate free access to taxpayer - funded findings, with mixed results.
Pressbooks is a simple open - source book production software that is used by small publishers, independent authors, universities, and open access advocates.
The fact that Issa and Maloney withdrew the bill just seven weeks after introducing it is an indication of the power that librarians, the research community, and open access advocates can have when they speak with a unified voice.
Mary is on the GLSA Board and is a LegalShield Access Advocate.
She founded Traklight and Evolve Law and consults as an Access Advocate for LegalShield.
This partnership allows her to refocus on Traklight, her writing and projects like her work with LegalShield as an Access Advocate and KPI education for small law.
Mary serves on the Group Legal Services Association Board and is an Access Advocate for LegalShield.
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