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Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #138
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| I want to celebrate the progress of OA journals and the launch
| of the OASPA by setting out what I see as the 10 greatest
| challenges facing OA journals. I want to do this without
| pretending to set the association agenda and without
| presupposing that association members don't already know these
| challenges very well. I'm not a member of the association or
| even a publisher. I merely want to see OA journals succeed.
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-09.htm
Recent:
Better world: Share things
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| Looking for a romantic way to do your bit for the
| planet? Then move in with your lover, take baths
| together and snuggle up on the sofa to watch TV
| together.
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| An awful lot of energy could be saved if only people
| shared things more, especially their homes. The evidence
| comes from the opposite end of the love spectrum.
| According to a recent study, if all the couples who
| divorced in the US had stayed together, in 2005 alone
| they would have used 2373 billion litres less water and
| 73 billion kilowatt-hours less electricity. Each
| divorced person spent 46 per cent more on electricity
| and 56 per cent more on water.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327261.700-better-world-share-things.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
At End of Act II: Are we Played for Fools OR Building a Enlightened Digital World?
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| This would be the World Wide Web of Books that we have
| been dreaming of rather than a Monopoly of Books.
| Google has helped build momentumâ lets take it the rest
| of the way without blowing it. This could be done by
| Congress or the Justice Departmentâ both of which are
| working on this right now.
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http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/09/20/at-end-of-act-ii-are-we-played-for-fools-or-building-a-enlightened-digital-world/
The Open PhD â What a Concept
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| Did you know MIT has 1800+ courses available for your
| viewing pleasure? You can even download the syllabus
| and assignments (with answers). Some courses even
| provide copies of old exams. How could I have missed
| this? Itâs not just MIT â other schools belong to the
| consortium â Carnegie Mellon, Standford, Oxford, Yale,
| the list keeps going.
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http://openphd.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/the-open-phd-what-a-concept/
Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing
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| 1. Child abduction: the fine is only like $25000.
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| 2. Stealing the actual CD: the fine is $2,500
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| 3. Rob your neighbor: the fine is $375,000
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| 4. Burn a house down: The fine is just over $375,000
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| 5. Stalk someone: The fine is $175,000
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| 6. Start a dogfighting ring: the fine is $50,000
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| 7. Murder someone: The maximum penalty is only $25,000 and 15 years in jail,
| and depending on your yearly salary, would probably be far slighter a penalty
| that $2 million.
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http://www.prefixmag.com/news/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than/32033/
Stephen Fry on copyright
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| At an event in London last night, the writer, actor, and gadget fan Stephen
| Fry launched a surprisingly ferocious attack on the music and movie
| industries over the way they have acted to defend their copyright.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/
Richard Marx (!) attacks RIAA after $1.92M Thomas verdict
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| Jammie Thomas-Rasset was held liable to sharing 24 songs, including one by
| pop crooner Richard Marx. But the lawsuit wasn't done in Marx's nameâthis
| week, he called out the recording industry's "greedy actions."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/richard-marx-attacks-riaa-after-19m-thomas-verdict.ars
Moby: The RIAA Needs to be Disbanded
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| The two million dollar fine handed out to Jammie Thomas by a Minnesota jury
| this week hasnât done the music industryâs image much good. While lawyers and
| high level managers at the major labels cracked open the Champagne, artists
| such as Moby and Radiohead shook their heads in shame at what the music world
| has become.
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http://torrentfreak.com/moby-the-riaa-needs-to-be-disbanded-090620/
Morrissey tells fans to boycott new box set reissues
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| The former Smiths singer claimed in a statement issued to fan site
| True-to-you.net, which he often communicates through, that he wouldn't
| receive any money from the reissues, released on November 2, and that he was
| not asked for approval for their release.
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http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/46616
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