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Public domain ISSN list?
Is there a list of ISSNs (that is a minimum association of an ISSN with a journal title) that is in the public domain?
If there is no such list and someone would aggregate such a list by using a ...
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Why should university undergraduates care about open access?
Open Access Week will be happening 22 - 28 October. At the university where I work librarians are planning a variety of events.
We want to do something for undergraduates, to tell them about open ...
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Why is there no coordinated action of libraries to negotiate jointly prices and the transformation to Open Access?
The mathematician Gowers recently wrote in his much-noticed blog post "Elsevier - my part in its downfall" about the absurd situation in academic publishing:
A possible explanation is that to do ...
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If a book is open access online is a university library less likely to buy a copy?
One of the claims against open access books is that university libraries won't use their budgets to purchase a copy. (I have heard this from a few different academic book publishers.) Is this true? Do ...
