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The word "theory" has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on the context and their methodologies. In common usage, people use the word "theory" to signify "conjecture", "speculation", or "opinion." In this sense, "theories" are opposed to "facts" — parts of the world, or claims about the world, that are real or true regardless of what people think.
In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation.
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RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
carolinacferr (Carolina Ferreira) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:41:12 -0000
RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
Access, Analyze, Act: From Economic Theory to Financial Reality Free resources to teach economics at PBS http://bit.ly/5ywpN9
dgende (Dolores Gende) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:15:38 -0000
Access, Analyze, Act: From Economic Theory to Financial Reality Free resources to teach economics at PBS http://bit.ly/5ywpN9
RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
PhilippeMFrowd (Philippe M. Frowd) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:38:57 -0000
RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
AffinyT (Tiffany Assouline) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:09:00 -0000
RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
sigridps (sigridps) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:51:05 -0000
RT @bourdieu: RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until Janu ...
RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until January 31st
bourdieu (Pierre Bourdieu) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:50:25 -0000
RT @JelenaGrujic Michel Foucault - special Issue of Theory Culture & Society http://bit.ly/QMHSW // free access until January 31st
Budapest Open Access Initiative - Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.
Meta Description: [ The Budapest Open Access Initiative: an international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet. ]
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Digital Copyrights - Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain.
Meta Description: [ Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works allows people to place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. ]
American Scientist Forum on Open Access - Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998.
Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing - A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences.
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research.
Meta Description: [ Max-Planck-Institute betreiben Grundlagenforschung in den Natur-, Bio- und Geisteswissenschaften im Dienste der Allgemeinheit. Insbesondere greift die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft neue, zukunftsträchtige Forschungsrichtungen auf ]
Create Change - A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options better suited to their academic missions.
Creating a global knowledge network - Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv.
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Declaration of Havana - Towards Equitable Access to Health Information - A statement issued in Havana on April 27, 2001, by the participants in the Second Regional Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library and the Fifth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. One of the strongest public statements in support of open access archives philosophy.
Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library - An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'.
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Electronic Dissemination of Thesis and Dissertations - UNESCO is examining the possibilities of formulating an international strategy for creating and disseminating electronic theses and dissertations.
Eprints.org - Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving.
For Whom the Gate Tolls? - How and why to free the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving, now - a manifesto by Stevan Harnad.
Free Online Scholarship Newsletter - (FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on electronic archives.
Meta Description: [ News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. ]
Information Liberation - Examines radical alternatives for replacing mass media with network media, abolishing intellectual property, and changing social institutions that create a demand for surveillance. Free full text in html and pdf.
Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research - A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be introduced to make the results of all federally financed research available to the public.
Nature Debates: E-Access - Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information.
Online or Invisible? - Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.
Meta Description: [ Online or Invisible? Article analyzing the citation rate
of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited. Edited version appears in Nature.
Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact. ]
Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement - Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative.
Meta Description: [ Guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship movement. ]
Public Library of Science - A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.
Rights Metadata for Open archiving - (RoMEO) A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI). Legal issues, surveys, links to related discussions.
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - New electronic and printed resources about scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Issues on copyright, academic impact, economical aspects.
Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing - An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future.
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Scholars Under Siege: The Scholarly Communication Crisis - An overview of current issues in scientific communication, exploring why scholars are losing control of a system that should be theirs and that is more and more controlled by publishers, chiefly through their pricing and copyright policies.
Self-Archiving FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a I worry about... set of questions too with advice and answers to issues.
Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives - How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative.
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