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 Skopje, Macedonia
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Joined February 2011
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#AaronSwartz RT @YourAnonNews: xitter.cf/AnonyPress/status/4224… #OpenAccess #OpenScience
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All seven of the UK’s research councils have signed up to a declaration that calls for the academic community to stop using journal impact factors as a proxy for the quality of scholarship. timeshighereducation.com/new…

Funding councils sign up to ‘responsible’ research assessment

New injection of cash for San Francisco Declaration on responsible metrics hopes to move initiative from words to action

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World University Rankings is basically the same nonsence as Impact Factor (both evaluated by private company) #IF ow.ly/bLcM30eX6oV
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Richard Poynder@RickyPo5 Sep 2017
Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-fac…

Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking * TorrentFreak

Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the "Pirate Bay of science," faces another setback in a US federal court. After the site's operator failed to respond, the American Chemical Society now...

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1/4 of the Sci-Hub requests 4papers comes from the 34 members of the OECD ow.ly/4ePT30etKse
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Eric Ketelaar@EricKetelaar4 Jun 2017
Research in the Archival Multiverse (over 1000 pages) now available as a free PDF oapen.org/search?identifier=…
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Overview of costs incurred by Dutch universities for books and journals by publisher vsnu.nl/en_GB/cost-of-public… Share it/RT
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SFMOMA@SFMOMA26 Sep 2016
On 10/6 writer+digital activist @doctorow will discuss value of museums+libraries & how they shape our culture→ sfmoma.me/CoryDoctorow
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What's that? You've been searching for a nonprofit, #openaccess repository for all the humanities? Look no further: hcommons.org
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#einfrastructures #Austria #repositories #copyright #accessibility #openaccess xitter.cf/VOEBBLOG/status/778552…
VOEBBLOG@VOEBBLOG21 Sep 2016
e-Infrastructures Austria: Projekt-Deliverables II univie.ac.at/voeb/blog/?p=41…
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Jan Malinowski@JMalinowskiR4 Sep 2016
Somewhere between @google and #AaronSwartz: Harvard is digitizing 40m pages of case law intended for free access wbur.org/bostonomix/2016/08/…

Harvard Is Digitizing Nearly 40 Million Pages Of Case Law So You Can Access It Online And For Free

The school hopes the project will "promote access to justice by means of access to legal information."

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WikiLeaks
@wikileaks3 Sep 2016
Julian Assange on Google's political ties to Hillary #Clinton youtube.com/watch?v=vOkLVHE6… More: wikileaks.org/google-is-not-…
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Replying to @openaccess_anz
.@openaccess_anz All @KUnlatched books in the OAPEN Library can be found here: oapen.org/search?title=&crea…
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Science-Metrix@ScienceMetrix4 Aug 2016
We studied 3.3M papers, here's the impact of green & gold #openaccess vs. paywalled 1science.com/oanumbr.html
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Converting Scholarly Journals to #OpenAccess : A Review of Approaches and Experiences ow.ly/2jiU303eRkF
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Richard Poynder@RickyPo14 Aug 2016
Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… #rickypo
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From 2015, but worth a read if you haven't seen it. xitter.cf/CoyneoftheRealm/status…
James C.Coyne@CoyneoftheRealm24 Jul 2016
Good news. @Wikipedia articles must have references, Editors put premium on #openaccess content for references. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci…

Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications. - LSE Impact

When you edit Wikipedia to include a claim, you are required to substantiate that edit by referencing a reliable source. According to a recent study, the single biggest predictor of a journal’s...

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WikiLeaks
@wikileaks16 Jul 2016
Missing 28 pages from the 9/11 commission report implicates Saudi intelligence and Royal family members, full pdf: justsecurity.org/wp-content/…
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WikiLeaks
@wikileaks18 Jul 2016
Tor operator @LuckyGreen resigns; a collection of leaks (for/against) on the @TorProject 'rape+plagiarism+CIA' saga oneeyedman.net/?p=2508
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WikiLeaks
@wikileaks18 Jul 2016
Coming Tuesday: The #ErdoganEmails: 300 thousand internal emails from Erdoğan's AKP - through to July 7, 2016.
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Bryan Vickery@Vickerbry6 Jul 2016
We're hiring a Managing Editor for @CogentOA, a growing #openaccess publisher. Join our friendly team! #journals #oa careers.taylorandfrancisgrou…
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