24Sep/12

ALT-Conference: The Digital Literacies perspective

Last week was very hectic as I travelled up and down the country to attend two conferences. The first was the Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C) in Manchester. The conference’s objectiveRead More…

20Jul/12

Digitally Ready for the Future: Sharing Good Practice

This one-day event took place on 19 July and brought together staff with an interest in using digital technologies in innovative ways, to share good practice and encourage discussion around digital issues (fullRead More…

The open access argument is hotting up further with Harvard putting its weight behind free to view publications as reported in The Guardian.  What the article doesn’t mention is that you need to be a fairly rich researcher to publish in many free-to-read journals.  Typically the cost per published paper is around £2000-£3000.