Knowledge2Go

The theme for the 5th Discourse Power Resistance conference is “Research as a Subversive Activity”. It will be taking place at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK from 20 to 22 April 2006. Keynote speakers are Frank Furedi, Bob Lingard and Griselda Pollock. Here is part of the blurb:
Does research always need to know exactly [...]

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Ben Crowell has written a very useful article on The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books in which he reviews a range of practical tools for people wanting to publish free (text)books.

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Preston McAfee of the California Institute of Technology is a little unimpressed with publishers:
“Academics do an enormous amount of work editing journals and writing articles and now publishers have broken an implicit contract with academics, in which we gave our time and they weren’t too greedy. Sometimes articles cost $20 to download, [...]

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