The Cost of Knowledge is a protest by academics against the business practices of academic journal publisher Elsevier. Among the reasons for the protests...
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Academic Spring (section The Cost of Knowledge)
post by Gowers, the website The Cost of Knowledge was launched by a sympathetic reader. An online petition called The Cost of Knowledge was set up by fellow...
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Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional...
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Elsevier (redirect from Journal of Algorithms)
support from the Research Works Act. Although the Cost of Knowledge movement was not mentioned, the statement indicated the hope that the move would "help...
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Academic journal publishing reform (category Criticism of academia)
Gowers, the website The Cost of Knowledge was launched by a sympathetic reader. An online petition called The Cost of Knowledge was set up by fellow...
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RELX (category Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom)
20,500 scientists signed The Cost of Knowledge boycott. On 28 February 2019, following long negotiations, the University of California announced it would...
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Cost–benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit–cost analysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives...
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In microeconomic theory, the opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone where, given limited resources, a choice needs to...
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free software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, created by the Public Knowledge Project, and released under the GNU General Public...
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to knowledge: Knowledge – familiarity with someone or something, which can include...
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requirements." Skills and knowledge of cost engineers are similar to those of quantity surveyors. In many industries, cost engineering is synonymous with...
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reform List of public domain resources behind a paywall Library and information science Elsevier § Criticism and controversies The Cost of Knowledge United...
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Wage (redirect from Cost of labor)
wage Marginal factor cost Overtime Political science: Labour power Proletarian Working class Wage slavery Finley, Moses I. (1973). The ancient economy. Berkeley:...
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Access2Research (category 2012 in the United States)
such as The Cost of Knowledge calling for lower prices for scholarly journals and to promote increased access to scientific information. The campaign...
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Describing the job content of the work, by indicating the skill, knowledge, etc. Matching the jobs with the employees. The direct labor cost is part of the manufacturing...
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Cost-push inflation is a purported type of inflation caused by increases in the cost of important goods or services where no suitable alternative is available...
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In economics, average cost (AC) or unit cost is equal to total cost (TC) divided by the number of units of a good produced (the output Q): A C = T C Q...
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significantly across the world and in time. Large and rapid increases in cost occurred during the 1970s, especially in the United States. Recent cost trends in countries...
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manufacturing, gas and oil. AACE is the publisher of Cost Engineering, a bi-monthly technical journal, Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering (currently in its...
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Economic cost is the combination of losses of any goods that have a value attached to them by any one individual. Economic cost is used mainly by economists...
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The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is a set of standard terminology and guidelines (a body of knowledge) for project management. The body...
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Open science (redirect from History of open science)
among them was a boycott of commercial publisher Elsevier called The Cost of Knowledge. The Dutch Presidency of the Council of the European Union called...
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cost audit represents the verification of cost accounts and checking on the adherence to cost accounting plan. Cost audit ascertains the accuracy of cost...
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a transaction cost is a cost in making any economic trade when participating in a market. The idea that transactions form the basis of economic thinking...
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Diamond open access (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024)
Farge was involved in the Cost of Knowledge campaign led by Timothy Gowers against the excessive cost of scientific publishing. The reference to "diamond"...
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A cost estimate is the approximation of the cost of a program, project, or operation. The cost estimate is the product of the cost estimating process....
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The True Cost is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Morgan that focuses on fast fashion. It discusses several aspects of the garment industry from...
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In economics, an implicit cost, also called an imputed cost, implied cost, or notional cost, is the opportunity cost equal to what a firm must give up...
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the project to migrate the remaining jouranls was completed. The University of Lincoln, in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project, offered a funded...
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increase in specialized knowledge and expertise, additional value creation, the potential for cost reductions, and a shortage of skilled labor. Regions...
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