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Update on OA in India
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| India's premier publicly-funded research organization is pushing to make all
| research published at its institutions open access. But its pleas are falling
| on deaf ears, critics say, as individual laboratories have been slow to take
| up the charge.
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/update-on-oa-in-india.html
Flat World Knowledge Gets $8 Million for Open-source Textbooks
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| Flat World Knowledge, a provider of commercial, open-source college
| textbooks, announced on Tuesday that it has closed an $8 million first round
| of funding.
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http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/03/24/flat-world-knowledge-gets-$8-million-open-source-textbooks
Open-Source Textbook Firm Flat World Knowledge Gets $8 Million
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-open-source-textbook-firm-flat-world-knowledge-gets-8-million/
Recent:
John Conyers and Open Access
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| The "open access movement" was born to create an alternative to this. Even if
| restrictive copyright was a necessary evil in the days of dead-tree-based
| publishing, it was still an evil. High costs restrict access. The business
| model of the scientist is to spread his or her knowledge as widely as
| possible. Open access journals, such as, for example, those created by the
| Public Library of Science, have adopted a different publishing model, to
| guarantee that all all research is freely accessible online (under the freest
| Creative Commons license) immediately, to anyone around the world. This
| guarantee of access, however, is not purchased by any compromise in academic
| standards. There is still a peer-review process. There is still even a
| paper-based publication.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/john_conyers_and_open_access.html
Speak now, Mr. Conyers, or withdraw this embarrassment of a bill
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| On the Huffington Post, Mike Eisen and I have asked Mr. Conyers to respond to
| the calls that he withdraw the embarrassing, anti-open access HR 801 (aka,
| the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act).
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/speak_now_mr_conyers_or_withdr.html
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