Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week
Max Planck Digital Library Open Science Days Copyright Clearance Center Open Access, which direction? [1-h-long webinar with Deni Auclair, Mark Ware, Bill O’Brien] The Guardian The great beyond: will the UK science budget be cut by 40%? Open Source 9 stories of science evolving with open source Science Japan’s universities open up to the world The Bookseller Informa pays £20m for Ashgate Publishing Select Science Revolutionary open-access laboratory facilitating innovative research FWF/Austrian Science Fund FWF unterstützt die Position der niederländischen Universitäten zu Open Access [in German] Chronicle of Higher Education Librarians leap to the aid of researchers whose funding will soon depend on Open Access [subscription required] Digital Science Predatory publishing isn’t the problem, it’s a symptom of information inequality Nature Scientist criticizes media portrayal of research Mail & Guardian Copyright issues dog academics PASTEUR4OA PASTEUR4OA announces regional policy workshops for research funders and research performing organizations Data-Smart City Solutions Plenario: changing how we use open data Ars Technica New study shows Spain’s “Google tax” has been a disaster for publishers Intellectual Property Watch Ukraine open access initiative roils local authors seeking copyright protection Los Angeles Times Federal humanities grants aim to put scholars on best seller lists Sunlight Foundation NASA’s EPIC photographs: Sunlight and open data on a global scale
