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Eligibility criteria for OzCo publishing grants now onlineEligibility criteria and application details for publishing grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts are now ava...
Princeton goes Open Access
Princeton University will prevent researchers signing over their copyright to journal publishers as part of a new Open Access policy.
Monbiot: academic publishing is 'pure rentier capitalism' and 'economic parasitism'
In this article for the Guardian, George Monbiot doesn't hold back in his criticism of academic publishers, particularly the big journal publishers.
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Children's book to raise money for Christchurch All proceeds from the sale of a new children's book will be donated to the Red Cross to support the rebuilding of Christchurch following the city's eart...
Journal publishers argue against Open Access
The Association of American Publishers has lodged testimony with the US House of Reps opposing the proposed Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 (FRPAA), a bill that would mandate free public a...
Wiley redundancies: correction
Further to last week's story about a number of redundancies at John Wiley & Sons, Wiley has issued a clarification that the job losses will only affect its Wiley-Blackwell division. 'Wiley-Bl...
Humanities academics concerned at books being added to citation index
Humanities academics in the UK have expressed concerns about a new European plan to add books to citation indexes that currently only cover journal articles.
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