Conférence “La marche des lumières : libre accès aux sciences humaines et sociales à l’heure du Web” Open Access by celyagd. Publications et libre accès. Poucette, doctorante... by Christelle Fritz on Prezi. A qui appartient le savoir ? Three Things Students Can Do Now to Promote Open Access. The open access movement is a long-standing campaign in the world of research to make scholarly works freely available and reusable. One of its fundamental premises is that the progress of knowledge and culture happens scholarly works of all kinds are widely shared, not hidden in ivory towers built with paywalls and shorn by harsh legal regimes.
Scholarly journal publishers currently compile research done by professors (for free), send articles out to be peer reviewed (for free), and distribute the edited journals back to universities around the world (for costs anywhere up to $35,000 each). Subscription prices have outpaced inflation by over 250 percent in the past 30 years, and these fees go straight to the publisher. Neither the authors nor their institutions are paid a cent, and the research itself—which is largely funded by taxpayers—remains difficult to attain. The good news is that the open access movement is changing all this, and you can help.
If you have 10 minutes... Open Access. ArXiv.org e-Print archive. MYSCIENCENEWS. Il y a seulement un an, la page Wikipedia s'habillait de noir pour lutter contre la loi SOPA et PIPA. Cette semaine, la communauté des défenseurs de l'accès libre à la connaissance est en deuil à l'annonce du suicide d'Aaron Swartz vendredi dernier. De nombreuses réactions ont émergé sur internet et les réseaux sociaux en faveur du mouvement open access. Les réseaux sociaux sont une caisse de résonance puissante et rapide contre des pouvoirs abusifs et cette démonstration se passe encore une fois devant nos yeux aujourd’hui. Mais il est dommage que des extrêmes tels que le suicide d'une personne ou des mesures legislatives aberrantes soient nécessaires à déclencher une réaction à large échelle… La mort d'Aaron Swartz, le 11 janvier 2013, a généré depuis quelques jours une onde sismique se propageant sur internet et les réseaux sociaux.
Depuis samedi dernier, de nombreuses personnes se sont exprimées sur internet et les réseaux sociaux pour déplorer la mort d'Aaron. Pour en savoir plus : Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices | Science. A memo from Harvard's faculty advisory council said major scientific publishers had made scholarly communication 'fiscally unsustainable'. Photograph: Corbis Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. A memo from Harvard Library to the university's 2,100 teaching and research staff called for action after warning it could no longer afford the price hikes imposed by many large journal publishers, which bill the library around $3.5m a year.
The extraordinary move thrusts one of the world's wealthiest and most prestigious institutions into the centre of an increasingly fraught debate over access to the results of academic research, much of which is funded by the taxpayer. "We do not believe that the facts in the letter which relate to price increases pertain to Elsevier.