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Part 6: The Open Access Revolution: The Next Steps… Since the beginning of the year, the momentum for open access to research publications has grown dramatically. On 13 February 2013, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act was … Continue reading →

Part 5: Open Access in the USA: The Open Access Policies of the DOE, NIH and NSF In a previous entry I wrote about the open access policy of the NIH and their PubMed Central repository. While the NIH has … Continue reading →

Part 4: Open Access in the UK: The Finch Report and RCUK’s Open Access Policy In the UK, the JISC organization has long pioneered the exploration of different models of open access and, in particular, the role of institutional repositories.  … Continue reading →

Part 3: Jim Gray and the Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communication When I joined Microsoft in 2005 to create an ‘eScience’ research program with universities, Turing Award winner Jim Gray became a colleague as well as a friend. I had … Continue reading →

Part 2: University Research Management and Institutional Repositories University Deans are required to do many things for their university, including taking some responsibility for the research output of their Faculty. Each year, capturing all forms of research deliverables – journal … Continue reading →

Part 1: Green open access for over 20 years My education into open access began over 40 years ago, when I was a practicing theoretical high energy physicist. This was in the 1970’s – in the days of typewriters – … Continue reading →

Master, Wardens, Mr. Alderman, Freemen and Guests, it is a great honour to be here in London with the Company of Educators. The Franklin lecture tonight highlighted some significant challenges for the UK Higher Education sector: I am afraid that … Continue reading →

I recently attended the annual PopTech Conference, where, along with more than 700 other attendees, I experienced a wide variety of new technologies, social innovations, and all-around creative ideas. PopTech takes place each Fall in the small town of Camden, … Continue reading →

When we discuss the fourth paradigm, we talk a lot about the challenges of data size. Big data size: deluge, flood, tsunami, and landslide. However, as my colleague Catharine van Ingen recently reminded me, there is something else going on. Something … Continue reading →

Autism. The diagnosis didn’t even exist until the 1940s, though undoubtedly the disorder—well, actually a continuum of related disorders—did. Today, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that as many as 1 of every 110 children in the United States will … Continue reading →