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2017 GLOBAL NANOENERGY PRIZE announced!
Date posted: December 16th, 2016

New books available to download!
New books published by One Central Press
The new titles and the links where you can download them for free are:
Nanobiotechnology – Click here to view and download chapters
Nanomedicine – Click here to view and download chapters
Nanomagnetism – Click here to view and download chapters
More books are on the way so keep a close eye on the website and our news!
Date posted: December 16th, 2014

Publications free for ALL
At the beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the government transmits taxpayers’ money to academic researchers, changed the rules on how the results of studies it pays for are made public. From now on they will have to be published in journals that make them available free—preferably immediately, but certainly within a year.
In February the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told federal agencies to make similar plans. A week before that, a bill which would require free access to government-financed research after six months had begun to wend its way through Congress. The European Union is moving in the same direction. So are charities. And SCOAP3, a consortium of particle-physics laboratories, libraries and funding agencies, is pressing all 12 of the field’s leading journals to make the 7,000 articles they publish each year free to read. For scientific publishers, it seems, the party may soon be over.
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Date posted: May 10th, 2013