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Planting the green seeds for a golden harvest

by Houghton, John W. & Swan, Alma (2012) “The economic modelling work we have carried out over the past few years has been referred to and cited a number of times in the discussions of the Finch report and subsequent policy developments in the UK. We are concerned that there may be some misinterpretation of [...]

World Bank Announces Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 – The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available as [...]

The price of information: Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals

The Economist. Feb 4th 2012 SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journals published by Elsevier. This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000 [...]

The Google Book search settlement: A law and economics analysis

by Müller-Langer, Frank and Scheufen, Marc (2011) MPRA Paper 35705 Beginning in December 2004 Google has pursued a new project to create a book search engine (Google Book Search). The project has released a storm of controversy around the globe. While the supporters of Google Book Search conceive the project as a first reasonable step [...]

International Competitive Strategy Choices:Comparing Firms in China and India

by Ping Lv; Monica Plechero; Rakesh Basant and Xie-Lin-Liu IIMA W.P.No.2012-01-05, January 2012 The international business literature has yet to adequately explore international competitive strategy choices made by firms in developing countries. This study aims to address this gap by investigating the types of international competitive strategies followed by Chinese and Indian firms. Using firm-level [...]

Results of publicly funded research will be open access – UK Science Minister

Alok Jha, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 December 2011 16.41 GMT New policy announced by David Willetts to make research freely available challenges business models of academic publishers. The government has signalled a revolution in scientific publishing by throwing its weight behind the idea that all publicly funded scientific research must be published in open-access journals. The [...]

World Resources 2010-2011:Decision Making in a Changing Climate—Adaptation Challenges and Choices

Published by World Resources Institute, 2011 World Resources 2010–2011 is a joint publication of the United Nations Development Programme,public engagement, decision-relevant information,and resources—that we believe will the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank, and the World Resources Institute.It  focuses on how national governments, particularly those of developing countries, can make effective decisions in a [...]

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