Open Access to birthdays
Five years does go by in a flash. I remember the early rally-the-scientists letters that went out, signed by Harold Varmus (which pleased me, that a senior scientist/administrator believed in the viability of Open Access). PLoS will be turning five on October 13th, but for practical reasons, they will celebrate the next day.
The Open Access movement is older than that, but no matter now. It’s here to stay.
Please participate in Open Access Day in some way or another. Here (and here) is what Open Access is about.
Download an Open Access article if you’re not working in an institution that has a choice to subscribe to academic journals (there is a big list here). That injunction applies to everyone who reads this blog. It’s your tax money!
Consider submitting your next article in preparation to an OA journal, if appropriate.
Prepare a blog post about the following points, and hang on to it so that it appears on October 14th:
- Why does Open Access matter to you?
- How did you first become aware of it?
- Why should scientific and medical research be an open-access resource for the world?
- What do you do to support Open Access, and what can others do?
September 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
So… trackbacks broken too?
September 20th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Not clear what you mean, there; but possibly (as usual!)?
September 21st, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I entered the trackback code into a weblog entry… and nothing happened.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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October 13th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
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