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News that Harvard University is the latest to join the growing revolt against the exorbitant pricing of academic journals caused something...

Techdirt has published several posts recently about the growing anger among scholars over the way their work is exploited by academic pu...

Paul Ginsparg is one of the key players in the world of open access. Indeed, he was practising it online before it even had a name, when he...

When I wrote a piece for the Guardian four years ago called " Googling the Genome ", it was more of a metaphor than a specific wa...

The Free Culture group are people after my own heart, so much so that their entire manifesto deserves quoting: The mission of the Free Cul...

This is exactly what leading academic institutions should all be doing : The Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of...

The partnership will establish the Legal Education Commons – known as eLangdell for Harvard Law School’s first Dean and the Law Library’s na...

We've had Openlaw , where anyone can contribute information to the crafting of a legal argument; now we've got Wikocracy , where any...

Identity is a slippery thing at the best of times. On the Internet it's even worse (as the New Yorker cartoon famously encapsulated)....