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The human genome at ten
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| The race to complete the first human
| genome sequence had everything a story
| needs to keep its audience enthralled â
| right down to a neck-and-neck sprint for
| the finish by two fierce rivals. In the
| end, the result was basically a tie. The
| rivals â the international, publicly
| funded Human Genome Project and the
| private, for-profit company Celera
| Genomics then based in Rockville, Maryland
| â jointly announced the completion of
| their draft sequences in June 2000 at a
| gala televised press conference attended
| by US President Bill Clinton and UK Prime
| Minister Tony Blair.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7289/full/464649a.html
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2010 Edition
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| The March 31, 2010 issue of the Dramatic
| Growth of Open Access is now available.
| Highlights: DOAJ is now at 4,863 journals,
| having added a net total of 864 journals
| in the past year for a DOAJ growth rate of
| over 2 titles per day. The Bielefeld
| Academic Search Engine now searches over
| 23 million documents; this is an increase
| of over 1.2 million in the last quarter,
| or over 13,000 documents per day. There
| are now more than 200 open access mandate
| policies listed in ROARMAP, with strong
| growth in every category. Compliance with
| the U.S. National Institutes of Health
| Public Access Policy is 62% - still not
| 100%, but definitely getting closer. In
| the past year,120 more journals began
| contributing all content as open access to
| PubMedCentral. There are now more than
| 5,000 journals around the world using Open
| Journal Systems (OJS).
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http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-march-31.html
Achieving Impossible Things with Free Culture and Commons-Based Enterprise
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/making_the_impossible_happen_the_rules_of_free_culture
Paywall/Open Debate Applied To University Education As Well
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| Now, the OCW critics will claim that this
| takes away from the big schools that put
| content into OCW, but again, that's
| misunderstanding the market, and assuming
| a zero-sum game, rather than an ability to
| expand the overall pie, recognizing that
| better education programs across the board
| are a good thing that open up many more
| opportunities than they take away.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100330/1521178794.shtml
Ordnance Survey opens up UK mapping data!
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| Subsequent to the recent consultation on
| Ordnance Survey data and Gordon Brownâs
| commitment to opening up (an unspecified
| amount of) the data in a speech last week
| - today the UKâs mapping agency is
| releasing a significant portion of their
| data for free use by the public.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/04/01/ordnance-survey-opens-up-uk-mapping-data/
Recent:
U.S. systemic savings from a full shift to OA: $3.4 billion
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| King argues for an open access system via article processing fees,
| fully paid by the federal government. It is noteworthy that King's
| estimate is that this would cost, in a worst-case scenario, an
| increase of less than 1% of what the U.S. federal government
| spends on research grants right now. King acknowledges the
| unlikelihood of this scenario. Average cost-per-article of
| $1,500 and $2,500 U.S. scenarios are employed; the additional
| cost for 100% funding of articles would be $427 million (at
| $1,500 per article) or $712 million (at $2,500 per article).
| King estimates that academic and special libraries could,
| together, save an estimate $4.1 billion per year.
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http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/us-systemic-savings-from-full-shift-to.html
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