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Support has been swelling for open-access scientific publishing: doing it online, in a way that allows anyone to read papers free of charge.
ECONOMIST: Academic journals face a radical shake-up
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Professor Adam Tickell, pro-vice-chancellor for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Birmingham said that universities were hugely supportive of the move toward the new model of scientific publishing.
BBC: Report calls on government to back open access science
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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.
FORBES: Harvard Scientist Resigns Over Misconduct