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iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship — When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Originally, you could just drag tracks onto …
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Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy. But there are precedents for a way out, says Robert Reich
The Browser | Writing Worth Reading
Develop effective methods for collecting, screening, and drawing attention to the best online scholarship , including scholarly blogs, digital projects, and other web genres that don’t fit into traditional articles or books, as well as conference papers, white papers, and reports Encourage the proliferation of open access scholarship through active new forms of publication , concentrating the attention of scholarly communities around high-quality, digital-first scholarship Create a new platform that will make it simple for any organization or community of scholars to launch similar publications and give guidance to institutions, scholarly societies, and academic publishers who wish to supplement their current journals with online outlets
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OA journal funds - OAD
This is a list of funds to support OA journals. The funds may be hosted by universities, research centers, foundations, or government agencies. Currently, all the funds listed here are designed to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals. If funds emerge to support no-fee OA journals , they belong here as well. When possible, annotate the funds with their launch dates, end dates (if any), special criteria, funding limits or cost-ceilings, and other notable features.
Some revenue sources are supplementary and not sufficient. We aim to include all the revenue sources actually used by OA journals, even if they are small parts of larger business models. Description . The model is to use advertising on the journal's web site or article pages in order to generate income to help support the journal. Variant . A journal or its publisher can sell advertising space to companies willing to advertise in the journal.
OA journal business models - OAD
Peter Suber, Open Access Overview (definition, introduction)
This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept. I hope it's short enough to read, long enough to be useful, and organized to let you skip around and dive into detail only where you want detail. It doesn't cover every nuance or answer every objection.
Revista Polis
Polis, Revista de la Editorial de la Universidad Bolivariana, busca contribuir al desarrollo de una universidad "extendida", en la cual la creación de conocimientos, no sea más monopolio exclusivo de la universidad o de los académicos, sino que una tarea colectiva del conjunto de la sociedad. Con este objetivo, esta revista es editada por la Universidad Bolivariana de Chile, y en ella ponen su esfuerzo sus académicos, así como sus estudiantes e intelectuales amigos de distintas partes de América y del mundo. La forma electrónica de la misma conserva las características de la edición impresa, gracias a lo cual les brindamos a los lectores todos los artículos escritos en los diversos números editados de la revista. La Revista POLIS es ofrecida aquí en su número actual y sus ediciones anteriores . Lo invitamos a conocerla.
Publication Sponsorship | Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
Sponsoring an AASHE publication is a great way to support the advancement of sustainability in higher education and to reach the growing sector of campus sustainability advocates. AASHE offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities described below, and we are happy to discuss customized sponsorship packages. Contact AASHE Publications Coordinator Margo Wagner for more information at margo@aashe.org or 859.648.0060. NEW! Limited-time Discount on Bulletin Sponsorships
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These web pages have been developed by the Ethical Consumer Research Association to provide UK charities and other values-led organisations with some basic tools to develop policy and practice on fundraising with commercial partners. They comprise: Ethical Consumer has been involved in campaigning for corporate social responsibility since 1989 and has provided research services for charities wanting to check out potential commercial partners since 1995.
Ethics and Sponsorship
Marna Hauk October 11, 2010/AASHE Conference/ Denver, Colorado, US/ Julian Agyeman woke up Sustainability in Higher Education experts Monday morning with an eloquent, clarion call for Just Sustainability . Professor Agyeman , Tufts Chair of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and a global leader in justice and the environment, has studied both the sustainability paradigm and environmental justice movements to synthesize an approach of Just Sustainability. Professor Agyeman and his student researchers earlier this decade found that the two paradigms of sustainability and environmental justice operate fairly independently, and that while more than 40% of US cities in the U.S. had sustainability websites, only five U.S. cities mentioned environmental justice.