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Summary of the Kickoff Meeting for OALI at the FU
The kickoff meeting of the OALI initiative took place on Monday 29th of October at the Freie Universität in Berlin. The participants were Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), Gereon Müller … Continue reading
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The prestige of the publisher’s brand name – an underestimated factor in science book publication costs
Complaining about high publication costs in science has become commonplace, but why is it that scientists are not choosing cheaper publication venues? As Christoph Bruch remarked recently, it seems that “scientists depend on publishers like junkies depend on their dealers”. … Continue reading
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The Cost of Knowledge
As mentioned in my description of the OA event at the HU, I was impressed by what the mathematicians achieved. I went to thecostofknowledge.com and wanted to sign their protest against Elsevier. There are three options one can check: I … Continue reading
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Do you love comics?
I do. Here is one on Open Access. Thanks to Detmar Meurers for sharing!
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Summary of OA Discussion Event at the HU with Participants of DFG and Elsevier
Encouraging Results of the Mathematician’s Fights The Humboldt University organized a panel discussion about OA yesterday. The mathematician Martin Grötschel gave an initial talk about his activities during the past decades. He described his dreams in 1995 (Everything! Everywhere! Immedeately! … Continue reading
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