We call on members of the worldwide scholarly communication community – researchers, policy-makers, scholarly societies, libraries, higher education and research institutions, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders – to sign this Declaration to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. Please sign in your own name and/or on behalf of your organization at this link: https://tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f. All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation.
On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit on behalf of plaintiff Lucina Uddin in federal court in New York against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, on behalf of a proposed class of scientists and scholars who provided manuscripts or peer review, alleging that these publishers conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research.
The Association of Research Libraries is a membership organization of libraries and archives in major public and private universities, federal government agencies, and large public institutions in Canada and the US.
The purpose of this network is to promote scholarly journals run according to the Fair Open Access model (roughly, journals that are controlled by the scholarly community, and have no financial barriers to readers and authors
The Library contains a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies; other U.N. human rights materials, decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; the OSCE and the Asylum Branch of the U.S. INS; human rights in Africa, human rights education materials, bibliographies; and links to other human rights and international law sites
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed A.B. 2192, a law requiring that all peer-reviewed, scientific research funded by the state of California be made available to the public no later than one year after publication.EFF applauds Governor Brown for signing A.B. 2192 and the legislature for...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26, 2018, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.
H. Farrell, and A. Newman. Henry Holt and Company, New York, First edition edition, (2023)Includes bibliographical references and index; "A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America's security state first started to weaponize these channels after 9/11, when they seemed like necessities to combat terrorism-but now they're a matter of course. Multinational companies like AT&T and Citicorp build hubs, which they use to make money, but which the government can also deploy as choke points. Today's headlines about trade wars, sanctions, and technology disputes are merely tremors hinting at far greater seismic shifts beneath the surface. Slowly but surely, Washington has turned the most vital pathways of the world economy into tools of domination over foreign businesses and countries, whether they are rivals or allies, allowing the U.S. to maintain global supremacy. In the process, we have sleepwalked into a new struggle for empire. Using true stories, field-defining findings, and original reporting, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman show how the most ordinary aspects of the post-Cold War economy have become realms of subterfuge and coercion, and what we must do to ensure that this new arms race doesn't spiral out of control."--.
K. Fitzpatrick. New York University Press, New York, NY [u.a.], (2011)Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for reconceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes--especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia--necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain relevant in the digital future. "--.
R. Solnit. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1. Auflage edition, (2019)aa; Die Essays nehmen sich engagiert und kritisch der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft unter D. Trump an. Gut lesbar und klug argumentierend werden soziale Missstände und Unrecht in aller Deutlichkeit benannt, ohne dabei in Polemik oder politische Resignation zu verfallen. Rezension Egal, ob es um Rassismus, Frauenfeindlichkeit, das Wahlsystem, die Waffenlobby, Polizeieinsätze, Gentrifizierung, die Überlieferung der eigenen Geschichte, die Klimapolitik oder D. Trump geht, um nur einige Themen der versammelten Essays zu nennen: R. Solnit (vgl. u.a.: "Die Mutter aller Fragen", 2018) schreibt aus einer feministisch-linksliberalen Grundhaltung heraus engagiert gegen unzählige Missstände und Fehlentwicklungen an, die die heutigen Vereinigten Staaten massgeblich prägen und tiefgreifend spalten. Die zwischen 2014 und 2018 verfassten Aufsätze zeichnen sich allesamt durch geschliffene Sprache, gute Lesbarkeit und kluge Betrachtungen aus. Auch wenn man nicht unbedingt sämtliche politischen Standpunkte der Autorin teilt, muss man die Sorgfalt und Gründlichkeit der Argumentation sowie den Willen zur umfassenden, gleichberechtigten Diskussion anerkennen. - Lehrreich, spannend, besonnen, ermutigend und hochaktuell, kann die Lektüre, die Aufklärung und politische Bildung im besten Sinne des Wortes bereithält, breit eingesetzt und empfohlen werden. (2).
L. Freedman. Palgrave Macmillan, London, Fourth edition edition, (2019); Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Arrival of the Bomb -- Chapter 2: The Strategy of Hiroshima -- Chapter 3: Offence and Defence -- Chapter 4: Aggression and Retaliation -- Chapter 5: Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly -- Chapter 6: Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate -- Chapter 7: Massive Retaliation -- Chapter 8: Limited Objectives -- Chapter 9: Limited Means -- Chapter 10: The Importance of Being First -- Chapter 11: Sputnik and the Soviet Threat -- Chapter 12: Soviet Strategy After Stalin -- Chapter 13: The Technological Arms Race -- Chapter 14: New Sources of Strategy -- Chapter 15: The Strategy of Stable Conflict -- Chapter 16: Disarmament to Arms Control -- Chapter 17: Operational Nuclear Strategy -- Chapter 18: Khrushchev's Second-Best Deterrent -- Chapter 19: Defending Europe -- Chapter 20: No Cities -- Chapter 21: Assured Destruction -- Chapter 22: Britain's 'Independent' Nuclear Deterrent -- Chapter 23: France and the Credibility of Nuclear Guarantees -- Chapter 24: A NATO Nuclear Force -- Chapter 25: The Unthinkable Weapon -- Chapter 26: China's Paper Tiger -- Chapter 27: The Soviet Approach to Deterrence -- Chapter 28: The McNamara Legacy -- Chapter 29: SALT, Parity and the Critique of MAD -- Chapter 30: Actions and Reactions -- Chapter 31: Selective Options -- Chapter 32: ICBM Vulnerability -- Chapter 33: The Rise of Anti-Nuclear Protest -- Chapter 34: Strategic Defences -- Chapter 35: Soviet Doctrine from Brezhnev to Gorbachev -- Chapter 36: The End of the Cold War -- Chapter 37: Mutual Assured Safety -- Chapter 38: Elimination or Marginalization -- Chapter 39: The Second Nuclear Age -- Chapter 40: The Nuclear War on Terror -- Chapter 41: Proliferation: The Middle East and the Pacific -- Chapter 42: The Return of Great Power Politics -- Chapter 43: Primacy and Maximum Deterrence..
