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Definitions
List of terms for Science publishing
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Open access
Barrier-free online access, in this case to scholarly online literature. Open access eliminates two kinds of access barriers: (1) price barriers and (2) permission barriers such as copyright and licensing terms. Open-access archives and open-access journals offer barrier-free access to their online content.
[Source: Guide to the open access movement [link: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm], Peter Suber]
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Reporting risk: what can we learn from Vietnam?
There is much to learn from Vietnamese approaches to reporting science and risk, says Son Kim Phan
PCST conference blog
Daily insights from the tenth public communication of science conference in Sweden
