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NEW! Accelerating Science Award Program

Nominate a researcher by June 15, 2013 for work published in an Open Access journal such as PLoS or BMC. Winners announced October 21, 2013. Sponsored by PLoS, Google, WellcomeTrust. Read more by clicking on the link below.

"Open Access is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions." -- Peter Suber

The two methods of open access for enhanced dissemination of scholarship are:
   1) publish in open access journals
   2) deposit versions of articles and other work in repositories
         - examples: D-Scholarship@Pitt or PubMed Central

Both methods provide access to full-text scholarly materials. Find out more below:

 

Open Access Explained (8:24)

Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain what it's all about. From PhDComics. (10/25/2012)

 

Recommended Books

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Guide to E-Science - Xiaoyu Yang (Editor); Lizhe Wang (Editor); Wei Jie (Editor)
Call Number: Falk Q180.55.E4 G85 2011
ISBN: 9780857294388
Publication Date: 2011-05-27

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Reinventing Discovery - Michael Nielsen
Call Number: Falk Q180.55 .M4 N54 2012
ISBN: 9780691148908
Publication Date: 2012
"Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computing. He is an essayist, speaker, and advocate of open science."
-- Princeton University Press

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