Making a splash in academia with open access
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| His announcement follows warnings from economists that we should not be
| overly reliant on using economic returns to assess the value of academic
| research.
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| Economist Wolfgang Polt of the Joanneum Research Institute (Vienna)
| was speaking at Science Impact, a joint conference hosted by the
| European Science Foundation (ESF). He said: "What I can offer to
| the debate is a warning and a recommendation to fence off
| overly-simplistic approaches to quantifying ranking of research
| areas, technologies, and projects."
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| He added that econometric studies, are too often "used to derive
| heroic or sometimes simplistic assumptions about the nature
| of innovation".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/22/academic_impact/
Google wants U.S. help fighting censorship
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| The company defends its actions, saying the Chinese government made it
| a condition of allowing Chinese users access to Google Web pages. China
| has an Internet firewall that slows or disrupts Chinese users from
| accessing foreign uncensored Web sites.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/22/google.censorship.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
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