TheCostOfKnowledge

Excellent, detailed breakdown of the reasons for avoiding any deals with Elsevier @costofknowledge, by @talyarkoni talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/1…

Amending competition and copyright law to enable open access to universities’ research cearta.ie/2016/11/amendi… tnx @jjn1 @costofknowledge

New publication: "On the @costofknowledge: Evaluating the boycott against Elsevier" journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

"Scientists go along, killing any chance of binge-watching their favorite show on Netflix after the kids go to bed." statnews.com/2016/08/26/rew…

A friend is building a site to help move academic publishing into an era of pure open access. Any coders or designers interested in helping?

By the way, over 16,000 people have now added their name to The Cost of Knowledge. thecostofknowledge.com

Mistaking the symptom for the disease: preprints in biomedical science, by @yardenkatz thewinnower.com/papers/4636-mi…

Social-sciences preprint server SSRN snapped up by publishing giant Elsevier nature.com/news/social-sc…

Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name torrentfreak.com/elsevier-compl…

Who's reading millions of stolen research papers on the outlaw website Sci-Hub? Now we know. wpo.st/oJYX1

US government commits to publish publicly financed software under Free Software licenses k7r.eu/us-government-…

Tell Congress: Move FASTR on open access to publicly-funded research eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

Try out TheOneRepo demo - the goal is to search across all institutional repositories at once: onerepo.net

Should All Research Papers Be Free? via @nytimes nyti.ms/1XluoAA

This renowned mathematician is bent on proving academic journals can cost nothing vox.com/2016/3/4/11160… via @voxdotcom

New journal Discrete Analysis launched, with articles published live on arXiv: gowers.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/dis…

@proycon Thanks! Will investigate.

@egonwillighagen Thank you!

Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience bjoern.brembs.net/2016/02/sci-hu… via @brembs

"The Pirate Bay of science" (via @SienceAlert) sciencealert.com/this-woman-has…