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Tag - Open access
William Salter
AoBP ECOS 2020 Awardee Chris Muir
"Open science is one of the best tools we have to change scientific culture by incentivizing good scientific practice."
The 2020 AoBP ECOS Awards
Elise Gornish, Chris Muir and Larry York are the 2020 recipents of the AoBP ECOS Awards
in silico Plants now listed on Directory of Open Access Journals
Listing in Directory of Open Access Journals verifies isP’s high level of openness and adherence to best practice and also increases your article’s discoverability. in silico Plants is proud to announce that it is now...
Rachel Shekar
What is Open Access and why does it matter?
This week we’re posting about papers from AoB PLANTS, an open access journal for plant science, and launching in silico Plants, another open access journal for research between mathematics, computer science and...
Alun Salt
Saving a blueprint of the Tree of Life
Access to legally acquired, high-quality DNA and tissue samples is often elusive for those undertaking genomic research. Seberg et al. report on an initiative to tackle this problem. The Global Genome Biodiversity...
botanyone
Nature Plants: an appreciation [or, Now we are Three…*]
A review of 'Nature Plants', the latest offering from the Nature Publishing Group.
Nigel Chaffey
The Importance of Access
Kevin Folta has put up a thought-provoking post on his blog, Illumination. There’s been a flurry of news stories around a new research paper that shows a Round-Up, Monsanto’s herbicide, in rain. A closer...
Find scientific papers the easy way
Not all scientific papers are easily accessed. If you want to blog about an AoB PLANTS paper, they’re all Open Access and Annals of Botany papers are free access a year after publication, if you’re patient...
What does a CC-BY licence allow that BY-NC doesn’t?
Annals of Botany and AoB PLANTS are both now using CC-BY as their open licence. At Open Access Oxford, Joanna Wild and Rowan Wilson explain what CC-BY is and why the NC clause might put unexpected restrictions on what...
INASP – strengthening the global research cycle
Working together to improve international access to scientific research through Open Access.
Lucy Browse
“Roger that!” Do plants have sound perception skills?
A wide range of abilities have long been attributed to the animals (within pluricellular organisms of the living world) to animals only: the ability to move, to stimulate an organ repetitively and very quickly, to...
Aurélien Azam
Antoine Le Gal
Will climate change threaten your drinking habits?
Will climate change threaten my (and possibly your) drinking habits? Read this and find out.
AJ Cann