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Author Peter Suber

Kathleen Shearer, Open Access at Concordia University: A Report for the Office of Research, March 27, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  This is an excellent set of recommendations, effectively packaged with a supporting argument and OA policies from other institutions.  Here's hoping that the Concordia faculty and administration will read it with care.

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Author Peter Suber

Sun has released the audio of two recent events, for playback or download: All About DSpace (June 3, 2009, 68 minutes) Increasing Use and Content Through Creative Service-Repository Bundling - A case study at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (April 15, 2009, 60 minutes)

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Author Peter Suber

Bob Grant, Editors quit after fake paper flap, The Scientist , June 11, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments In April, Marie-Paule Pileni, editor in chief of Bentham's Open Chemical Physics Journal, resigned when the journal published a 9/11 conspiracy-theory paper without her knowledge or approval.

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Author Gavin Baker

Dale Peters, DRIVER: Building a sustainable repository infrastructure to support national and international scholarly communication, presented at Deutscher Bibliothekartag (Erfurt, Germany, June 2-5, 2009). Abstract: