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Month: March 2012

  • Copyright in an Open Access World – a parody

    This is a parody of a recent blog post over in Elsevier-land by David Tempest. If you haven’t read it yet, you really should – it’s an interesting insight into the mind of the DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSAL ACCESS (their caps-usage, not mine) at Elsevier. Here’s my remix tribute post, words in blue are my…

  • The new RCUK draft Open Access mandate

    Research Councils UK (RCUK) – a partnership of seven core UK research funding bodies (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, and STFC), has recently released a very welcome draft policy document detailing their proposed Open Access mandate, for all research which they help fund. The new proposed policies include (quoting from the draft): Peer reviewed…