“A European academic digital publishing initiative, subsidised with E1.4m from the European Commission’s Information Society DG was launched earlier this month. FIGARO is an academic publishing project that intends to create a European network of institutions providing e-publishing support to the European academic community. Furthermore, FIGARO aims to investigate new business models for scholarly publishing and stimulate open access to the publications produced and distributed with its infrastructure.

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Cambridge U to co-opt creators’ intellectual property.

Cambridge University is changing its copyright policy. Formerly most creative work done at the university belonged to the creators. Now it will belong to the university. Dissenting faculty have launched a web site explaining how the new policy will harm academic freedom, faculty, students, and industry. (Thanks to Red Rock Eater.) [FOS News].
I don’t like the sound of this at all.

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