Sentences with phrase «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.

Pressbooks is a simple open - source book production software that is used by small publishers, independent authors, universities, and open access advocates.

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.

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He was also a strong advocate for creating open space and waterfront access in his dsitrict.

In the suit, they argue that the bill was only able to pass because state officials violated Open Meeting Laws, the senate suspended rules to prevent people from speaking, lobbyists and public advocates were denied access to the Senate chamber, and the Governor unjustifiably issued a message of necessity on the bill.

Advocates of open access to scientific research may find themselves under fire from high - profile public relations flaks and high - powered lobbying groups.

If confirmed by the Senate, he is expected to serve as a champion for advocates who seek to open up commercial access to space.

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.

But not all advocates of open access are satisfied with its progress.

That could mark a tipping point in scientific publishing, and a major landmark for advocates of open access.

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.

«I have been waiting for things like this,» says Jonathan Eisen, a microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, and an advocate for open access.

However imperfect, the Archambault analysis is welcome, says open - access advocate Peter Suber, director of Harvard University's Office for Scholarly Communication.

Although that's what most observers expected, it's not what open - access advocates hoped for.

The authors are strong advocates for transparent science and open - access publishing and in addition to the full release of the dataset and analysis, the complete peer review history is also being made available - a nascent practice that is gaining popularity.

A new study by Jesse Thaler, an associate professor of physics at MIT and a long - time advocate for open access in particle physics, and his colleagues now demonstrates the scientific value of this move.

Open - access advocates say that will limit what people can do with the papers.

Open - access advocates such as University of California, Berkeley, biologist Michael Eisen slammed CHORUS when publishers announced the program last year.

The Wellcome Trust and the Sanger Institute are leading advocates for open and unrestricted access to publications.

That open access is a deliberate and effective assault on racial inequity associated with the segregation era is an irony not lost on reform advocates.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

The report offers tools for advocates and policymakers to demand changes in state school funding policy and to provide researchers with open access to the datasets that are the foundation of finance research.

One thing that is for certain is that there is no clear solution on the horizon, even as DRM - free advocates work for open access and publishers try to get creative with prosecuting offenders.

«The academic community is increasingly advocating Open Access publication of scholarship.

In the open access debate, advocates for traditional, for - profit scholarly journals often claim that these journals add value to the papers they publish in the form of editorial services that improve their readability and clarity.

How can you expect to be taken seriously in your crusade for open access to data, when the credibility of the arguments and the advocates you associate yourself with is so dubious?

For Blauer and other advocates, open data became a basis for engagement and public sector transparency, leading to improved access to justice for some of society's most vulnerable communities.

Excellent article John, your quality summary of the open access issue and the benefits associated with it will help in spreading awareness and advocating freedom and open - access — both at my institution (University of Regina) and across North American institutions.

Data — big, open — is having a well - deserved moment among access to justice advocates.

Sam Glover: I hope our listeners will consider supporting the organizations that are pushing for open access to law or just advocating for it, and we'll be sure to link to the RECAP extension, as well as law.research.org and public.resource.org in case you want to learn more.

While groups such as SPARC continue to develop and advocate for open access to journal literature, and I think time develop a strategic direction and platform in Canada for open access to legal scholarship that follows logically from the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal mataccess to journal literature, and I think time develop a strategic direction and platform in Canada for open access to legal scholarship that follows logically from the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal mataccess to legal scholarship that follows logically from the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal matAccess to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal mataccess to legal material.

«Immi was created by the Immigration Advocates Network and Pro Bono Net, who are dedicated to increasing access to justice for low - income immigrants and other vulnerable populations through innovative and effective technology, with support from Open Society Foundations, the MacArthur Foundation, and other donors.»

It is driven by five goals, namely (1) to encourage research and scientific development; (2) to promote access to justice through adapted software; (3) to decrease judiciary costs; (4) to improve the quality of legal open source software; and (5) to advocate for the interoperability of the judiciary through the use of open source standards.

Sunshine Week celebrates — and advocates for — the public's access to government information.Established by the American Society of News Editors and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, its marked by lots of organizations, from the National Archives to Open the Government.In an... Continue reading →

For years, American open - government advocates have complained about the lack of direct access to reports prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the policy research arm of the U.S. Congress.

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