Quite an interesting list of books, sent to me from Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/PSHR.html

“Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.”

– Taken from Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? , posted on http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130&Itemid=390

This website is a great resource for more information on the Open Access Movement

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook – http://www.openoasis.org/

Author’s Rights

Author’s Rights, Tout de Suite gives journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of author’s rights. The guide includes references to online documents and links to pertinent Web sites to foster further exploration of this topic.

http://www.archive.org/details/AuthorsRightsToutDeSuite

If they could (according to a worldwide Galluip poll), about 700 million adults worldwide — more than the entire adult population of North America and South America combined — would like to move to another country permanently. The United States and Canada top the list of most desired destination countries.

If everyone who wanted to move to Canada actually did, the country’s population would grow by 170%.

More information on this poll is available at the Gallup website.