Unlike Forbes and other open publishing platforms, LinkedIn can help authors reach a the 187 million LinkedIn users easily.
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Many scientists are strong supporters of open access publishing.
In 2007, a study conducted by Jawhraa Abdul Rahaman, to explore the contentment of academics in universities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia towards open Access publishing - 63.4% of the total participants in the study showed their desire to have their scientific publications available for free access on the Internet in future, compared with 22.4% reported that they do not support the idea.
There is open-access publishing, typically supported by asking the author (or his employer) to pay for the paper to be published.
The British announcement followed the publication of a report by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, which recommends encouraging a business model adopted by one of the pioneers of open-access publishing, the Public Library of Science.
Support has been swelling for open-access scientific publishing: doing it online, in a way that allows anyone to read papers free of charge.
Dries Buytaert is chief technology officer at Acquia, a commercial open source software company providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
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Organization, since 2007, of events and training in support of open access, e-publishing, online journal management and institutional repositories.
Even trade publications like Publishers Weekly, which I follow closely, have had a role to play, updating the book industry on which publishing houses were open for business, which booksellers were having issues, etc.
The following year, she launched Open Road, which focuses on publishing digital versions of previously published works.
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Barbara Meredith, vice-president of professional and scholarly publishing at the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, has said that a demand for open access to research findings could undermine the sustainability of the publishing industry, and has promised to lobby vigorously against this happening.
Recognizing that simply publishing snapshots of government information is not enough to make it open, we need to improve the quality, accessibility, timeliness, and usability of our data and content through well-defined standards that include the use of machine-readable formats such as web APIs and common metadata tagging schemas.
Open Access experts from universities, specialized non-governmental organizations, UN agencies and publishing houses will gather together to deliberate on the strategy, present the global trends in OA and identify opportunities to improve access to peer-reviewed research information to all.
Open access advocates have the natural high ground and are gradually winning the debate over the future of academic publishing.
Projects: OA Publishing agreement with Springer to make available articles by Dutch researchers in Springer journals will be made available Open Access, with author's approval.
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