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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Open Access Button should prompt institutions to be more cooperative in sharing research papers
There is a new group online called “Open Access Button” which offers a free
subscription (link). When you need a
research paper the group emails the author or source to see if you can get the
paper free without delay or red tape (as with JSTOR, which I have used and
found clumsy). It allows you to keep
track publicly of which publishers and researchers will share their
information, especially with other students, inventors, or researchers. Imagine the value of this if there is some
new idea for an effective drug or early intervention test for an infectious
disease like Ebola or SARS (or HIV).
This is the kind of facility Aaron Swartz (“The
Internet’s Own Boy”) would have wanted.
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