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Tag: Wellcome Trust
PLOS launches open access science award program
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedToday the Public Library of Science announced the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP). The award program seeks nominations of individuals who have used, applied, or remixed scientific research — published through open access — in order to realize innovations in science, medicine, and technology. The goal of ASAP is to build awareness of and encourage…
Wellcome Trust urges universities to take leadership in open scientific publishing
by diane UncategorizedWellcome Trust by HowardLake / CC BY-SA Creative Commons plays an instrumental role in the Open Access movement, which is making scholarly research and journals more widely available on the Web. Last month, Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, spoke at Oxford University on the role of open access in maximising the impact…