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For those who missed it: The US Government is currently hosting a "public consultation on Public Access Policy...seeking public input on access to publicly-funded research results, such as those that appear in academic and scholarly journal articles."  It's similar in scope to what's already required for NIH-funded research, but extending it to ( Read more... )

The faculty of MIT voted unanimously to require publishers to allow open dissemination of their articles:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html

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NEWS: GOP lawmakers: Fire college professors for 'queer theory'

I found this rather ridiculous, but also a bit alarming. I doubt that the impulse is exclusive to Georgia. I'm a grad student and writing instructor at this point, so I'm using queer theory more than teaching it, so I can't really speak to any experiences with this, though I've ( Read more... )

"Thomson Reuters, maker of the EndNote bibliographic software, is suing George Mason University and the State of Virginia...The issue is Zotero, an open source bibliographic tool that appears to rapidly increase its market share, as it is much lighter, platform independent, browser plugable and free. Of course, this is not the official reason, ( Read more... )

Has anyone worried that the current economic crisis may have a trickle down effect and screw us out of our graduate education ( Read more... )

What would you do if you were being slandered by a group of teachers, with the intent of one of them to push you out of Graduate School unnoticed so they can plagiarize you?  I have been to a lawyer, but there is a statute of limitations to the slander, so now my next step is to keep from being plagiarized.

A classmate asked and no one knew the answer, but I thought someone here might ( Read more... )

...on writing references for students via "ApplyYourself":

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/26/applyyourself-in-ord.html

[red tape insanity]

Has anyone been following this mess?

Mark Moyar, author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, applied for an American/world history professorship at the University of Iowa. He was not one of the final eight candidates who the search committee interviewed ( Read more... )