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Looking Back on Jesse Helms' Life
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:14:00 -0400
Sen. No, as he was often called, "was a real throwback," says Merle Black, a professor of southern politics at Emory University. One of a select group of politicians who helped solidify Republican control in the South, he had a loyal constituency of working-class whites in North Carolina.
Financial Aid Woes Make Community College More Appealing
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:05:00 -0400
Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are still struggling to find money for college. We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.
When Did Flag Pins Become So Important?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Sen. Barack Obama Obama was questioned about why he doesn't always wear a flag pin during a Democratic debate in April. His critics say his lack of pin casts doubt on Obama's patriotism, and recently the Democratic candidate has been wearing one.

The Talk of the Town

The Chill
Nick Paumgarten Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,” for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, “This is lame,” and slipped back . . .
Oily Speculations
James Surowiecki Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When bad things happen, it’s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed . . .
Obama’s Iraq Problem
George Packer Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking . . .

 

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Budapest Open Access Initiative - Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.
Meta Description: [ The Budapest Open Access Initiative: an international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet. ]

500 Digital Copyrights - Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain.
Meta Description: [ Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works allows people to place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. ]

American Scientist Forum on Open Access - Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998.

Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing - A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences.

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research.
Meta Description: [ Max-Planck-Institute betreiben Grundlagenforschung in den Natur-, Bio- und Geisteswissenschaften im Dienste der Allgemeinheit. Insbesondere greift die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft neue, zukunftsträchtige Forschungsrichtungen auf ]

Create Change - A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options better suited to their academic missions.

Creating a global knowledge network - Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv.

404 Declaration of Havana - Towards Equitable Access to Health Information - A statement issued in Havana on April 27, 2001, by the participants in the Second Regional Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library and the Fifth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. One of the strongest public statements in support of open access archives philosophy.

Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library - An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'.

404 Electronic Dissemination of Thesis and Dissertations - UNESCO is examining the possibilities of formulating an international strategy for creating and disseminating electronic theses and dissertations.

Eprints.org - Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving.

For Whom the Gate Tolls? - How and why to free the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving, now - a manifesto by Stevan Harnad.

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter - (FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on electronic archives.
Meta Description: [ News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. ]

Information Liberation - Examines radical alternatives for replacing mass media with network media, abolishing intellectual property, and changing social institutions that create a demand for surveillance. Free full text in html and pdf.

Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research - A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be introduced to make the results of all federally financed research available to the public.

Nature Debates: E-Access - Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information.

Online or Invisible? - Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.
Meta Description: [ Online or Invisible? Article analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited. Edited version appears in Nature. Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact. ]

Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement - Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative.
Meta Description: [ Guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship movement. ]

Public Library of Science - A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.

Rights Metadata for Open archiving - (RoMEO) A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI). Legal issues, surveys, links to related discussions.

404 Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - New electronic and printed resources about scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Issues on copyright, academic impact, economical aspects.

Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing - An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future.

404 Scholars Under Siege: The Scholarly Communication Crisis - An overview of current issues in scientific communication, exploring why scholars are losing control of a system that should be theirs and that is more and more controlled by publishers, chiefly through their pricing and copyright policies.

Self-Archiving FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a I worry about... set of questions too with advice and answers to issues.

Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives - How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative.