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Open Access: Free Access to British Scientific Research to be Available Within Two Years. We’ve also embedded the full text of the UK Government’s Formal Response to the Finch Report at the bottom of this post and added direct links to more information. The government is to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet.Under the scheme, research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universities, companies and individuals to use for any purpose, wherever they are in the world.In an interview with the Guardian before Monday’s announcement David Willetts, the universities and science minister, said he expected a full transformation to the open approach over the next two years.

Welcome to Citizendium - Citizendium. LimeSurvey.org - The Leading Open Source Survey Tool. TU Delft - Research. HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works! CoNCePTuaL. CoNCePTuaL A Network Correctness and Performance Testing Language coNCePTuaL is a tool designed to facilitate rapidly generating programs that measure the performance and/or test the correctness of networks and network protocol layers. coNCePTuaL centers around a simple, domain-specific programming language; a few lines of coNCePTuaL code can produce programs that would take significantly more effort to write in a conventional programming language. One of coNCePTuaL's goals is to raise network benchmarking from an art to a science. To that end, coNCePTuaL programs log not only measurement data but also a wealth of information about the experimental setup, making it easy for someone else to reproduce your performance tests.

The following types of people are most likely to benefit from using coNCePTuaL to design network performance tests: Richard Smith: This week's boost for open access research is good news for science. Earlier this week, overshadowed by the collapsing of banks and largely unnoticed, something happened that is very important for the future of science. Ten years from now, that unnoticed event may prove to be more important than the banking catastrophe. The event was that a major scientific publisher, Springer Science+Business Media, acquired BioMed Central, one of the first and most important "open access publishers". Open access publishing of science means not only that everybody everywhere can access the research without any payment but also that the research can be used in creative ways without consent but simply with attribution.

Once all of science is open access – as it surely will be eventually – then the value of our scientific deposits may be greatly increased: the totality has a value that exceeds the sum of the parts. Other major publishers may have to follow Springer in promoting open access publishing. Indeed, publishers arguably subtract value by Balkanising the research. Cruxlux - Illuminating Perspectives.