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Four revealing observations from the new State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 These interventions are key to helping the poorest and vulnerable people escape the cycle of poverty by boosting their incomes  and assets, and helping them gain productive employment and build sustainable livelihoods. However, there lacks an organized effort to gather evidence of impact, discussions of efficacy, cost and trade-offs, and feasibility to scale up such programs at the global level. The report is an...

This open access book highlights the complexities of climate adaptation related decision making. It is based on findings from the Future Climate For Africa applied research programme and introduces new ways to promote action in policy and praxis through the blending of interdisciplinary knowledge.

 E-Mail IMAGE: A new Open Access journal from Cambridge University Press will provide a home for interdisciplinary research in the fast-growing field of quantitative and computational imaging in the life sciences. view more  Credit: Cambridge University Press A new Open Access journal from Cambridge University Press will provide a home for interdisciplinary research in the fast-growing field of quantitative and computational imaging in the life sciences. The Press has launched Biolog...

 E-Mail SAN FRANCISCO -- The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced an agreement for BTAA members to participate in PLOS Community Action Publishing (CAP) program. The agreement ensures time to test and evaluate this new community-based model and allows BTAA researchers to publish in PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine without incurring fees. The BTAA and PLOS will also collaborate on future data, metrics, and tools for institutions to evaluate Ope...

Inaugural address. this is a big test for him. can he achieve that in. >> we are a minute away from this press conference, i want to go to chuck todd. what can we expect from this administration? >> look, by the way, i would not be shocked if we saw president biden make a little quick point here. he put the word truth and he talks about the need for truth in his inaugural address. it is a bit of a statement and not just to us in the press core but statement of freedom of the press and open acces...

Caption: The emblem of Dædalus, a maze seen from above, symbolizes the aspiration of its founders to “lift each of us above his cell in the labyrinth of learning in order that he may see the entire structure as if from above, where each separate part loses its comfortable separateness.” Previous image The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the MIT Press recently announced that Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy, will now be an open-acce...

Tue, Jan 19th 2021 8:01pm — Glyn Moody Techdirt has been following the important copyright case in India that is about how people in that country can access academic journals. Currently, many turn to "shadow libraries" like Sci-Hub and Libgen, because they cannot afford the often hefty frees that academic publishers charge to access papers. If a new "Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy" (pdf), just released as a draft by the Government of India, comes to fruition, people may not need t...

Real estate diversity program, Project REAP, has named the first fellows to take part in a new initiative to drive money and know-how into building new communities. The pilot Open Access Fellowship Program in Community Development Finance will provide a pathway for black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) to work in a sector of real estate finance that can help build new communities and improve the health, education and access to wealth of economically disadvantaged populations.  “REAP ...

 E-Mail An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. "The open access publishing model is growing, and open access successfully democratizes the results of research projects, but its clear now that some scholars are more likely to be represented in the open access literature" said AARC director and lead author of th...

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