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By clock on July 31, 2007.

The Demise of Old-Fashioned Scholarly Journals? (I love the photo on the top of the article!)

Thoughts about the sea of information

Open Science like the start of Apple?

Nonsense, and pernicious nonsense at that.

Reading Journals Can Seriously Damage Your Wallet

Hybrid journals and the transition to OA

Oxford open access experiments

Oxford: Traditional Publisher Illustrates Leadership in Transition to Open Access

Transitioning to open access series

Course check: A conversation with three open access publishers about the challenges of sustainability

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