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Open-access research 'catastrophic' for Reed-Elsevier
Government plans to make publicly-funded research available for free online will be great for citizens but terrible news for journal publishers. One could lose up to 60 percent of its profits, an analyst warns....
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Bulk-Purchasing E-Textbook Experiment Expands to More Colleges
An experimental business model for delivering e-textbooks is expanding, with some adjustments, to 26 colleges and universities this fall. The institutions will participate in a pilot project in which they will buy digital course materials in bulk from publishers to reduce costs for students....
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Judge Upholds Jury’s $675,000 Fine Against Ex-Student for Sharing Music
A federal judge has upheld a jury’s 2009 decision ordering a former Boston University graduate student to pay a $675,000 fine for downloading and distributing roughly two dozen songs on an unlicensed file-sharing network, according to The Boston Globe......
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Humanism in the humanities: what it means to be an academic mentor
After attending the memorial of her late dissertation supervisor, Janine Utell reflects on a mentor who offered her something more meaningful than contacts and CV advice......
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On Leaving Academia
Very good, succinct, comment by US computer science professor who switched from academia to Google, followed by a load of very interesting and knowledgeable comments by fellow bloggers.
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After Leadership Crisis Fueled by Distance-Ed Debate, UVa Will Put Free Classes Online
"On Tuesday, Virginia is joining a group of 12 institutions that plan to open their courses to the world, free of charge, through an online platform created by the start-up company Coursera....."
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Reforming Copyright Is Possible
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Is Open Access a Moral or a Business Issue? A Conversation with The Pennsylvania State University Press
Is university research being held captive by morally suspect for-profit academic publishers charging exorbitant prices for journal subscriptions? Since the start of 2012, this caricature of academic publishing has captured headlines within higher education news.
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Government to open up publicly funded research
The [U]K government has announced that it will make publicly funded scientific research available for anyone to read for free, accepting recommendations in a report on open access by [sociologist] Dame Janet Finch......
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The Future of Undergraduate Teaching
By Nigel Thrift, V-C at Warwick University, with a very good discussion following by way of comments. The focus is on the role of the digital text and web-based teaching & learning and its threat or promise to the existing position.
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Education News
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AcademHack
My work... the complex cultural transformations brought about by the change from an analog archive to one whose substructure is a digital network. Particularly I am interested in how traditional institutions-libraries, higher education, even democracy itself-will be altered in a post-print society.... emerging media projects.
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Burn the Boats/Books
'.....making a definitive move to embrace new modes of scholarship enabled by web-based communication, rather than attempting to port old models into the new register. Rather than providing the book with a digital facelift for 21st century scholarly communications, academics should move past book-based biases which structure scholarly communications and instead imagine and execute born digital scholarly forms, which leverage the evolving digital media landscape.' [Dave Parry]
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Ending Knowledge Cartels
'... we have a bizarre situation where we give away our product for free to these cartels who then turn around and sell it back to us... Overcoming the knowledge cartels in the academy is simply a collective action problem....To be sure there are complex solutions needed to replace the cartels, but the first step is overcoming them—which is shockingly simple. I offer 10 steps to take to achieve this goal....' [Dave Parry]
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A tale of two books: digital transformations are creeping across the face of academic life
In response to Patrick Dunleavy’s posts on the future of e-publishing in academia, David Gauntlett writes on his experiences of publishing ebooks, and how Kindle self-publishing could be an approach which gets books to readers at a far more affordable price, as well as being surprisingly better for authors too....
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Ebooks herald the second coming of books in university social science
Books at last are going digital – bringing to an end the futile period of paper books losing out to digital journals. With prices falling and instant availability leading to the growth of people reading ebooks, Patrick Dunleavy foresees a renaissance of books as a major format in social science teaching, research, and impacts work.....
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Prof Alice Roberts: 'Public engagement should be part of academic life' - video
Alice Roberts, professor of public engagement in science at Birmingham University and BBC TV presenter, discusses society's evolving view of science and how universities must get better at explaining it.
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Publishers and Georgia State See Broad Implications in Copyright Ruling
Report of radical decision by US District Court judge on major copyright case brought by publishers, inc. Cambridge & Oxford UPs, and finance by US publishing association. Georgia State U.'s use of copyrighted materials in electronic reserves mostly permitted.
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Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals
Elsevier says data mining from journals is possible.....in new move in academic journals dispute
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Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available
"Throwing its weight behind open access, the British government has declared it wants to make all research paid for with public money freely available online....."
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