The Royal Society (through the Science in Society programme), Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust funded a study to examine the factors affecting science communication by scientists. This report will provide evidence to support the development of strategies to encourage scientists and engineers to communicate with stakeholders including the public, policy makers and media. […]
An article in ‘Chemical & Engineering News’ illustrates how online research communities can play a pivotal role in uniting scientists worldwide to find cures for neglected diseases. Last summer, Drexel University Professor, Dr. Jean Claude Bradley, started two simultaneous experiments in his lab with an aim of openly sharing data and results from the experiments […]
Rice University has proposed that it will publish all its books online and in the process will revive Rice Publishing Press that had stopped publishing in 1996.(From Insidehighered.com, July 14th). Excerpt: “it will publish all of its books online only. People will be able to read the books for no charge and to download them […]
A recent posting in SPARC-OA Forum by Bill Hubband, SHERPA Manager, (submitted by Peter Suber) announced a new advice list, JULIET as a service to authors, academics and repository advocates.
SHERPA RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher’s copyright transfer agreement.
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Bo-Christer Björk, from the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration,Helsinki, Finland has an interesting article in the Journal Information Research, 9(2), January 2004.
Abstract: One of the effects of the Internet is that the dissemination of scientific publications in a few years has migrated to electronic formats. The basic business practices between libraries and publishers […]
