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De academische lente
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:15
President Robbert Dijkgraaf van de Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen schreef een aanstekelijke column in de NRC van 28 april over de voordelen van Open Access in de wetenschap.
Onderzoeksresultaten verdienen het met zoveel mogelijk mensen gedeeld te worden
"Londen was op zijn mooist. De lente hing in de lucht. Op weg naar de collegezaal in de City passeerde ik de restanten van het Occupy-tentenkamp bij de trappen van de St. Paul's Cathedral. Hoe de strijd tegen het mondiale grootkapitaal zal aflopen weet ik niet, maar er waart op dit moment ook een bevrijdingsgolf door universiteiten en laboratoria".
Wikipedia founder is to help the UK government in its bid to make taxpayer-funded research available for free online.
- Last Updated on Thursday, 03 May 2012 14:59
The government has drafted in the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to anyone who wants to read or use it. The initiative, which has the backing of No 10 and should be up and running in two years, will be announced by the universities and science minister, David Willetts, in a speech to the Publishers Association on Wednesday.
The move will embolden what has been dubbed the "academic spring" – a growing campaign among academics and research funders for open access in academic publishing. They want to unlock the results of research from behind the lucrative paywalls of journals controlled by publishing companies.
