Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 23, 2015

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Frontiers Communications in eBooks // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week

NIH

New prize competition seeks innovative ideas to advance open science

OUP Blog

Open Access Week – continuing on the journey

The Conversation

Your questions answered on open access

EurekAlert!

UK researchers will benefit from innovative open access agreement between Springer and Jisc

BBC

The scientists encouraging online piracy with a secret codeword

Inside Higher Education

Checking our library privilege

My Science Work
PeerJ has a new way to pay: one low fee to publish in full open access

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Open access is a human rights issue

Nature

Over 60% of 2015 research articles on nature.com are open access

BioMed Central blog

Springer Nature Open Research Day

Associations Now

Scientific society opens its digital library for open access week

BioMed Central blogs

Collaborating with societies and institutions at BioMed Central

Research Information

OUP deal with academic publishers releases first content

Institute of Development Studies

What’s the future for Open Knowledge?

Quartz

Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers—for free

BMJ

BMJ editor writes to Hunt over misuse of weekend mortality data

The Eagle

Texas A&M University group pushing open-source textbooks for all

Daily Dot

The high-stakes online future of open-access science