Author Archives: openaccessbelgium

Originally posted on Gowers's Weblog:
A few days ago was the anniversary of the beginning of the Cost of Knowledge boycott of Elsevier. It seems a good moment to take stock of what the boycott has achieved and to think about what progress has or hasn’t been made since it started. This post is…

Originally posted on OpenCitations blog:
The first of six blog posts about libraries and linked data, bearing this title, is to be found at http://semanticpublishing.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/lld1-what-are-linked-data/. A draft of that post, that erroneously appeared here in this blog, has been removed.  

Today, we’ve received this mail in our mailbox: “Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research By Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

… “it was a very big year, I think, for open access” via … “it was a very big year, I think, for open access”.

In memory of Aaron Swartz, 10 things you can do to REALLY support #OpenAccess #PDFTribute.

Originally posted on Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week:
There’s been a lot of concern in some corners of the world about the Finch Report‘s preference for Gold open access, and the RCUK policy‘s similar leaning. Much of the complaining has focussed on the cost of Gold OA publishing: Article Processing Charges (APCs) are very…

Brussels Declaration on Open Access, signed by Ministers Paul Magnette, Ingrid Lieten and Jean-Marc Nollet (English, French and Dutch version) signed by Paul Magnette, Ministre fédéral des Entreprises publiques, de la Politique scientifique et de la Coopération au développement, chargé des Grandes Villes/Federaal Minister van Overheidsbedrijven, Weten­schaps­beleid en Ontwikkelings­samen­werking, belast met Grote Steden Ingrid Lieten,Continue reading “Brussels Declaration on Open Access, Signed by ministers Nollet, Magnette and Lieten”

Check out this cartoon on Phd Comics:  

We’ve put  a photostream of Open Access to Excellence in Research on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_fra/sets/72157631843211487/