IFUT actually haven't balloted yet. 'Teachers vote by huge majority to join public sector strike' - The Irish Times - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspap...
The aim of this document is to define activities relating to the digitization of original cultural materials, and to outline general steps for planning and management of this process.
- Garret McMahon
European Molecular Biology Organization announces
an option for author-paid open access articles in The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports (PDF) - http://www.nature.com/press_r...
Other articles will continue to be published under NPG’s exclusive License-to-Publish, where NPG's usual self-archiving policy will apply.
- Garret McMahon
The ducking and diving engaged by Elsevier regarding 'green' OA and 'accepted manuscripts' is a real drag. Make the bloody thing available for ALL papers please and stop omitting those you deem to be hot. Grr!
"It was also a theocratic state. Alcohol, tobacco, and gambling were banned, as well as theaters, circuses, novels, pork, oysters, politicians, doctors, tan-colored shoes, public displays of affection, and whistling on Sundays."
- Garret McMahon
from Bookmarklet
Feeling a bit 'Johnny No-Mates' re: Google Wave. Anyone got a spare invite?
Six Universities Adopt New Technology Transfer Principles Designed to Speed Access to Affordable Medicines in the Developing World - http://opa.yale.edu/news...
Michael Portillo: Digging up the Dead - Lying just beneath the surface of the ground, all over Spain, are the bodies of tens of thousands of people in unmarked and very often mass graves - http://www.bbc.co.uk/program...