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Can You Make Money from Free Stuff?
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| It's good to see companies like Getty Images
| trying to include material that's licensed
| under Creative Commons licences, but it will
| be interesting to see how this all works in
| practice. It does, in any case, emphasise
| that making money from free stuff, while
| perfectly possible, requires careful thought
| about the licensing. But then you knew that
| anyway.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=3027
BCS EGM: It's Time To Vote For Transparency
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| Despite the unbalanced presentation on the
| official BCS web site (where there is no
| attempt to represent the views of the loyal
| and senior members who felt compelled to
| call the meeting as a last resort - their
| case is on their own site), the issues the
| EGM raises are serious and reflect a
| widespread disquiet among active BCS
| members. The webcast by the BCS President
| and CEO on June 10 didn't make things any
| better, attacking the messengers further
| rather than responding to the message, and
| today I'm left with the same unease as I had
| when I first saw the EGM was happening.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=41&entryid=3026&RSS
The EU proposal for increasing access?
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| The aim is to restrict the conditions that
| would permit to increase the number and the
| range of accessible format works available.
| The Joint recommendation is about when
| "there is no appropriate commercial product
| on offer." If a book exist in an audio
| format but not in a indexable format or
| searchable format, is it "on offer" to
| people with disabilities?
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http://keionline.org/node/868
Accountability and Transparency at ICANN? Not looking good
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| Iâve been keeping schtum about the
| Accountability and Transparency Review Team
| (ATRT) for a while for three reasons:
|
| 1. I submitted a proposal along with a
| team of professional evaluators to be the
| reviewâs âindependent expertâ
| 2. I know nearly all the members of the
| team and I respect them all
| 3. Theyâre working to a tight timetable
| so you have to give some benefit of doubt
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http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/06/16/accountability-and-transparency-at-icann-not-looking-good/
Recent:
The return on peer review
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| A while ago I took a decision to only publish
| in open access journals. I recently received
| two requests to review articles for journals.
| Peer-review is one of the great unseen tasks
| performed by academics. Most of us do some,
| for no particular reward, but out of a sense
| of duty towards the overall quality of
| research. It is probably a community norm
| also, as you become enculturated in the
| community of your discipline, there are a
| number of tasks you perform to achieve, and
| to demonstrate, this, a number of which are
| allied to publishing: Writing conference
| papers, writing journal articles, reviewing.
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http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2010/06/the-return-on-peer-review.html
What Do I Want from the Publisher of the Future?
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| When I took on the role of Editor-in-Chief of
| this open-access journal, I began, for the
| first time, to think about scholarly
| communication beyond submitting my papers and
| getting them published.
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http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000787
Blind Students Get Free Access to Cambridge U. Press Books
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| Texts for visually impaired college students
| are hard to come by. But a new agreement
| between Cambridge University Press and
| Bookshare, a nonprofit organization that
| converts books and journals into formats that
| blind people can read, may enlarge this
| library.
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http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Blind-Students-Get-Free-Access/24722/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Highly Misleading Press Release by Oxford University Press Journals
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| Oxford University Press Journals has issued a
| highly misleading press release -- "Open
| Access Uptake: Five Years On," not making it
| clear that it is not Open Access (OA) uptake
| that is declining, but merely the uptake of
| OUP's pricey "Oxford Open (OO)" paid hybrid-
| Gold OA option.
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http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/741-Highly-Misleading-Press-Release-by-Oxford-University-Press-Journals.html
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