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Gaurdian Story on the ever growing journal boycott.

More than 800 British researchers have joined 22,000 others from 161 countries in a campaign to boycott publishers of scientific journals who refuse to make research papers freely available on the internet after six months.

\"Science depends on knowledge and technology being in the public domain,\" said Michael Ashburner

It\'s been here before, but it keeps getting submitted, so I thought I\'d cover it again.

Nature has a Forum on the impact of the Web on the publishing of the results of original research.
In a nutshell, how could scientific information be better handled so that they can work more easily and efficiently, should it be available for free?
If you think so, Sign The Open Letter.
Slashdot also ran a story.

The UK journal Information for Social Change has a new issue out, No. 12. The articles on the web are as follows:

• Editorial. John Vincent
  
• Clause 28. Anne Ramsden
  
• Clause 28 and its effects.
  
• Changing times: information destinations of the lesbian, Gay, bisexual and transgender community in Denver, Colorado. Martin Garnar
  
• Barriers to GLBT library service in the Electronic Age. Ellen Greenblatt
  
• Book review: Ian Lumsden\'s Machos, maricones and gays: Cuba and homosexuality. Review: John Pateman and John Vincent
  
• Social Exclusion Action Planning Network
  
• Book review: Fidel Castro\'s Capitalism in Crisis. Review: John Pateman
  

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