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Britannia goes a little bit Wiki

Encylopaedia Britannica has been feeling lots of pressure from open-source, online references such as Wikipedia, so has cautiously opening up its material for reader feedback.

EU Open Access push

Scholarly publishers have expressed caution at moves by the European Union to mandate the publication of EU-funded research under Open Access rules. 

Is Open Access the loser in Google settlement?

The Guardian's Seth Finkelstein is worried that Open Access will be the loser in the Google Book Search settlement: 'battles between behemoth businesses should not be mistaken for friendship to librar...

Harvard to create free online repository

Harvard University's faculty of arts and sciences will allow its faculty members to contribute their scholarly articles to a free online repository. 'This is one of the only ways we can break the back...

Libraries rebuff Google and Microsoft

A number of major research libraries in the Us have shunned offers from Google and Microsoft to help digitise their collections, opting instead to join the Open Content Alliance.

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