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- Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
Malicious Government Prosecution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy..
- Canadian Psychiatric Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Fame & Fortune Online
Resource Type: Website
Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
- Media Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- Meet the Robin Hood of Science
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
- Retracting Séralini Study Violates Science and Ethics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Giles-Eric Séralini, a professor of molecular biology at Caen University, led a toxicological study on GM maize and the Roundup herbicide which found an alarming increase in early death, large tumours including cancers, and diseases of the liver and kidney. What followed was a concerted worldwide campaign to discredit the findings.
- Scientists pledge to boycott Elsevier
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Following the retraction of the Seralini et al scientific paper which found health damage to rats fed on GM corn, over 100 scientists have pledged in this Open Letter to boycott Elsevier, publisher of the journal responsible.
- Sources Newsstand
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
- Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Too Much To Know
Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
A study of Latin reference works compiled in the Middle Ages and Renaissance when digests and compendia containing quotations, excerpts and precis of works of the canon were a popular source of knowledge.
- Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
- Wilfrid Laurier University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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