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Geographer Gardner to Head Academy of Social Sciences
The longtime director of the Royal Geographical Society, Rita Gardner CBE, will be the new chief executive of the United Kingdom’s Academy of Social Sciences. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Stephen Anderson after more than 10 years.
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Rita Gardner reflects on open access and learned societies
Learned societies are a fundamental part of the research ecology, providing a substantial intellectual, public and reputational good, at minimal cost to the UK public purse. They are typically ‘not-for-profit’ organisations, with the work they do in support of academic disciplines funded by income derived from publishing discipline specific journals. Often this is from success […]
Posted in Open Access, Public Policy
Also tagged CC-BY, Green, learned societies, scholarship
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Debating Open Access
The furious controversies of last year following the announcement of the new Research Councils UK policies on open access may have quietened down, but there remain many practical problems.
Posted in News, Open Access
Also tagged Chris Wickham, Martin Paul Eve, Nigel Vincent, Robin Osborne, Stephen Curry, Stuart M Shieber, Ziyad Marar
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