News tagged with public access

Ten-fold increase in Open Access publishing during the last decade

Since the World Wide Web emerged in the mid 1990s scientists have dreamed of having the whole body of scientific peer reviewed literature freely available on the web, openly available without any hindrance. In the "Open Access" ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New evidence of the power of open access

New findings settle one of the arguments about Open Access (OA) research publications: Are they more likely to be cited because they were made OA, or were they made OA because they were more likely to be cited?

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New study examines the economic returns of public access policies

Delivering timely, open, online access to the results of federally funded research in the United States will significantly increase the return on the public's investment in science, according to a new study by John Houghton ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China cracks down on wi-fi in public spaces

China has ordered public spaces offering wi-fi web access to install costly software to enable police to identify people using the service, state media said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 23