The British announcement followed the publication of a report by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, which recommends encouraging a business model adopted by one of the pioneers of open-access publishing, the Public Library of Science.

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The site is run by Nature Education, the educational division of Nature Publishing Group, the publisher of the venerable Scientific American and other science and medical journals.

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At the time of his space flight, Garriott worked at MMO publishing giant NCSoft on the science-fiction MMO Tabula Rasa.

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Both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson have reported that Harvard professor of psychology Marc Hauser has decided to resign after an investigation concluded he was guilty of scientific misconduct in publishing questionable data in three papers he published in the major science journals.

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Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.

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"The Wheel of Time" "was really one of the big, big touchstones of our field, " said Scott Shannon, who oversees science fiction and fantasy at Random House Publishing Group, which publishes George R.

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