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In November, OSTP issued two Requests for Information (RFI), one on
open access to scientific publications and the other on the management
of digital data.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/07/request-information-public-access-digital-data-and-scientific-publications
Yesterday, responding to
Heather, my comments are interspersed on two paragraphs of your recent post.
Happy New Year.
Arthur Sale
University of Tasmania, Australia
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[Heather]
Libraries. Currently, library subscriptions account for about 80-90% of the
financial support for the scholarly publishing system, with
Some suggestions:
(1) Estimate the total number of papers P published per year y, Py, rather than
the number of researchers.
(2) Start with the Thompson-Reuters-ISI-indexed (or SCOPUS-indexed) subset.
(3) For Py, sample the web (Google Scholar) to see what percentage of it is
freely available
Press Release January 1st 2012
INAUGURAL EPT AWARD for OPEN ACCESS
The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the
winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in developing
countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the
In November, OSTP issued two Requests for Information (RFI), one on
open access to scientific publications and the other on the management
of digital data.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/07/request-information-public-access-digital-data-and-scientific-publications
Yesterday, responding to
