Category Archive Open Access

Celebrating Open Access Week by highlighting community projects

. . This week is Open Access Week all around the world, and on Open Knowledge’s behalf I'll be putting together a blog post series to highlight great Open Access projects and activities in communities around the world. Every day this week will feature new writers and activities. Open Access Week, a global event now entering […] Read More…

Booting Open Access community in Denmark: Meetup next week

. . This coming week with Open Knowledge Denmark we're organizing a meetup to invite everyone in Copenhagen interested in Open Access and open science to come listen to a presentation by the founder of one of the most exciting Open Access projects right now, The Open Access Button - David Carroll. We would love to see the […] Read More…

Why are patents and locked up science seen as the way forward for growth and innovation?

. . Inspired by the many discussions surrounding the release of the Aaron Swartz documentary, "The Internet Own Boy", I've put together a blog post with some thoughts about the future of science and the challenges we're facing as a society with our current academic knowledge financial schemes: These past few weeks have highlighted the […] Read More…

Doing panel at the Danish premiere of “The Internet’s Own Boy”, the documentary of Aaron Swartz

. . On Monday I have been invited to sit in a panel for DR2-TV's Dokumania's official Danish premiere of 'The Internet's Own Boy' in Den Sorte Diamant, Copenhagen. It's the documentary telling the story of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who among other authored the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, co-wrote RSS web feed format, co-founded Reddit but most importantly […] Read More…

Aaron Schwartz’ Guerilla Open Access Manifesto now translated into Danish // #openaccess

  Aaron Schwartz, who sadly passed away last year, is an iconic front figure of the open movement and needs no introduction. One of his most powerful creations was the formulation of his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, which outlines not only the failures of the global proprietary academic publishing scheme which silos scientific, academic and […] Read More…