As I'm sure discussants in Australia know, research funding bodies in Australia have also begun to mandate and provide funds for the open access publishing of materials produced from research they fund, including the two major funding bodies. This has begun to change the culture in universities here concerning open access. My university held at least two forums on open access publishing this year in the attempt to inform academics about the ins-and-outs of OA. Deborah On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:20 PM, nickjan <nickjan@xs4all.nl> wrote:
All:
The Scholarly Kitchen (collective blog for the Society for Scholarly Publishing) has just posted an insightful analysis of the Elsevier - Academia.edu saga, entitled "The End of an Era for Academia.edu and Other Academic Networks?" Available at:
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/11/has- elsevier-signaled-a-new-era-for-academia-edu-and-other- professional-networks/
As pointed out in the post, many of the comments to a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/blogs/ wiredcampus/posting-your-latest-article-you-might-have- to-take-it-down/48865) are particularly astute....
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