Friends:
Below is an excerpt and link to an article that appeared in the news this week about a good day in the archives. This isn't the first time that an unexpected discovery has been made in the Royal Society library: in 1981, independent scholar and historian of microscopy Brian Ford discovered Leeuwenhoek's microscope specimens there.
Friends:
Here is yet another proposal from a contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen blog in the ongoing discussion about ways to fund fair, sustainable models of journal publishing. "Plan S" stated that granting agencies (including governments) should require anyone who received their support to publish only in Open Access journals, which often impose high fees on authors at the time of publication, and also that these fees should be capped.
The latest edition of H-Net This Week is live and chock full of interesting and useful content
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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
10 Sep 2018 and 17 Sep 2018.
Friends:
The next post will consist of the most recent H-Net book reviews listing. I apologize for the lapse in posting these book review announcements over the past few weeks. Apparently, when the Commons platform was taken down for revisions to the categories and keywords sections, it dislodged the connections to the reviews feed.
An associate Professor at Clarkson University, Jason Schmitt, has posted a blog post entitled "Paywall: Why For-Profit Academic Publishers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank."
The blog discusses a documentary he has made with the same title. Below is a quotation from the blog post and a link to the post.
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