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Doctoral student and OAD (http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki...) asst editor Nancy Pontika is studying copyright negotiations between authors and journals; if you are an author who has been through this, she'd like to talk to you. (Edit: her email is in comment #2 below.)

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You can read a little bit more information about this study in the OAD list "Research in Progress" http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki.... You can email me directly @ pontika.nancy@gmail.com - Nancy Pontika

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Lessons learned by a #farm teenager http://bit.ly/K3DEU #ag "My instinct was not keeping me safe" - Beth

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Optimism | Psychology Today - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...

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"How we react to setbacks in our lives is a particularly good test of how hopeful we are. If we see some bad outcomes as being inevitable in a world in which our control is limited, we can nevertheless retain our confidence in our ability to change things for the better. If we react to adverse events by feeling discouraged and powerless and engage in a process of self-blame, we are unlikely to imagine that we can improve the situation. Eventually, our skepticism about changing things for the better hardens into an habitual attitude." - Meryn Stol from Bookmarklet

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"Optimism is highly correlated with success. What do you suppose a major league hitter is telling himself before he bats? Even the best of them make an out two-thirds of the time. Do you suppose that this statistic is weighing on him as he approaches the plate? Or is he likely to be imagining a happier result." - Meryn Stol

"So who would you rather spend your life with: those who brace themselves for the worst or those who anticipate the best?" - Preferably both! ;) - Meryn Stol

It's all a question of case-by-case perspective. Some pessimists are always down and negative, whereas others bring threats and weaknesses to light in a way that brings people to action (examples abound around the recent climate and economic crises - "pessimists" who warned people of real threats everyone else happily dismissed). Some optimists pump you up, and others just are... more... - Iphigenie