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  1. Computer Science Building renamed Peter Thiel Center

    Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine, and…
    #NewsBeep #News #Computing #alumni #BillGates #CA #Canada #comedy #Gates #GatesFoundation #hahaveryfunny #Humor #palantir #peter-thiel #Technology #thiel
    newsbeep.com/ca/579993/

  2. India spends $715 million on academic journals, but with the wrong kind of open access

    Numerous articles here on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have been successful in subverting attempts to provide it. Publishers are strongly motivated to undermine open access, since its successful implementation […]

    #apcs #businessModels #diamondOa #funders #gatesFoundation #goldOa #grants #india #openAccess #plos #profits

    walledculture.org/india-spends

  3. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  4. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  5. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  6. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  7. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  8. Another sign that gold open access was a mistake, and that diamond open access is the future

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most influential funding bodies in the world. According to one ranking, it is the second largest charitable foundation, and as of 31 December 2023 had an endowment of around $75.2 billion. That makes a shift in its publishing policy hugely important.

    An article in Chemical & Engineering […]

    #apcs #coalitionS #diamondOa #funding #gatesFoundation #goldOa #peerReview #planS #preprints #publishers #unesco #verixiv

    https://walledculture.org/another-sign-that-gold-open-access-was-a-mistake-and-that-diamond-open-access-is-the-future/

  9. New #research paper led by Heather Chamberlain at WorldPop - High-resolution estimates of social distancing feasibility, mapped for #urban areas in sub-Saharan #Africa - in #ScientificData #Covid19 #NPIs #socialdistancing
    Mapped index data: wopr.worldpop.org/?/SocialDist
    Visualised on the #GRID3 data hub: data.grid3.org/search?categori.
    The work is part of the #Grid3 project, funded by #gatesfoundation and #FCDOGovUK
    Project summary: worldpop.org/current-projects/
    Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-017