Digital Economy Bill
Guardian: Lords angered over three strikes rule for filesharers
iPad
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Journalism
Free manual for investigative journalists Story-based Inquiry
Open Access
JISC: How to build a business case for an Open Access policy
The new report shows how universities can work out how much they could save on their profit and loss accounts as well as increasing their contribution to UK plc when they share their research papers through Open Access.
The ‘modelling scholarly communication options: costs and benefits for universities’ report, written by Alma Swan, is based on different types of university. It shows how universities might reduce costs, and how they can calculate these saving and their greater contribution to society by following an Open Access route.
European Research Funders Throw Weight Behind UK Open Access Repository, UK PubMed Central
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Patents
Tim Bray: giving up on patents
Policy
Birmingham Totalplace final report now available on the BeBirmingham website
Twitter geo tagging
Twitter Changes To Geo-API – Tag Your Tweets With A Location