Interactions with the Mass Media (pdf):

Stevan Harnad, Batch Deposits in Institutional Repositories (the SWORD protocol), Open Access Archivangelism, July 9, 2008.  Excerpt:

Here’s a diversion - as I am sat watching England lose to New Zealand… (Note that I read this without University access as it’s easier to realise what it’s like not to have it).

One of my favorite journal editors is moving on.

I’ve just been to Birmingham / Solihull to the Talis Xiphos Research Day. Talis are a Library company transmogrifying into a Semantic Web company and have a great vision of the potential future.

Siân Harris, Publishing should help research, Research Information, June/July 2008.  An interview with Steven Inchcoombe, the Managing Director of the Nature Publishing Group.  Excerpt:

I'm pleased to announce that the University of Leicester Research Training Innovation Fund has funded this project:

Writing "Surely there is a better way," eggy78 asks "With the ability to get information anywhere in the world in seconds, and the virtually immediate obsolescence of any printed work, why are journals such an important part of academic research?