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Indian Publishing Firm Can't Take A Little Criticism, Threatens Blogger With $1 Billion Lawsuit, Criminal Charges
New York City :: NY :: USA | 15 hours ago
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The blogger, Jeffrey Beall, who is based in the US, has a blog called Scholarly Open Access (he's also a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver) in which he reviews and critiques various open access programs. As we've discussed , open access
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Research Solutions introduces new SaaS solution for pharma companies
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
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Sunshine Act compliance for the use of medical ePrints for sales, marketing and medical affairs. The solution records the delivery of each ePrint to the physician across publishers with a customizable ePrint registration page and data collection
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BC Iron and Cleveland ink Brazil deal
Salvador :: Brazil | 15 days ago
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Pilbara iron ore miner BC Iron and Cleveland Mining plan to take a joint majority stake in three projects in Brazil. The miners have signed two agreements to earn the rights to acquire up to 80 per cent of three separate iron ore exploration projects
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Let us seek innovative ways to address dearth of research at local universities
Nairobi :: Kenya | 16 days ago
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Stories The last few years have seen a rapid expansion of higher education in Kenya. This is in response to growing demand and a desire by institutions to increase revenues occasioned by the introduction of new courses. However, the hiring of new
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Your librarian can protect you against predatory publishers
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 17 days ago
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The news out of Gotham City ( New York Times ) tells a tale of deception and woe. Pseudo-academia? How can open access to information be a bad thing, and why does Nature call some of these journals The Dark Side of Publishing ?...Open Access is a
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University Of California Sides With Journal Publishers Over Its Own Struggling Libraries
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 24 days ago
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the public is paying for this research via federal funding, therefore it should have access to what it's paid for. The resistance usually comes from journal publishers who are very concerned about their main source of revenue -- access fees (usually
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Western Publishers Sue Delhi University Over Photocopied Textbooks; Students And Authors Fight Back
San José :: Costa Rica | 1 month ago
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Of course, that's not just a problem in Costa Rica: in many parts of the world, high prices act as a significant barrier to education, and it will come as no surprise that photocopying is an accepted practice in many countries. That's certainly true
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Pseudoacademia
New Haven :: CT :: USA | 1 month ago
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Apr 10 2013 The integrity of the scientific basis of medicine is under attack from numerous fronts. It is not only the intrusion of pseudoscience and mysticism into mainstream institutions of medicine, but also attempts to distort or game the
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For Scientists, an Exploding World of Pseudo-Academia
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too) Kevin Moloney for The New York Times Jeffrey Beall, a research librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, has developed a blacklist of predatory journals. Published: April 7, 2013 The
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Africa: Breaking Down the Academic Paywalls, in Africa Too
Nairobi :: Kenya | 1 month ago
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Across Africa, academics and researchers face financial barriers that keep them from accessing the same knowledge their peers elsewhere in the world can afford...To convince the public of the bill's importance, he needed the latest statistics and
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