Day archives: August 6th, 2016

Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences

Solomon, David, J. Mikael Laakso, and Bo-Christer Björk (authors). Peter Suber (editor). 2016. Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences. This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA “This …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Brookings – The end of coal-fired growth in China

Brookings Editor’s Note: “The original paper titled “China’s post-coal growth” was published in Nature Geoscience and authored by Qi Ye, Nicolas Stern, Tong Wu, Jiaqi Lu and Fergus Green. When will China reach its coal peak? Most analysts have predicted that China’s coal consumption will peak somewhere between 2020 and 2040. In an article recently published in Nature Geoscience, however, …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law

Animal welfare advocacy makes inroads with egg production

Follow up to previous posting – Humane League – United Egg Producers to eliminate male chick culling by 2020 – via the Washington Post – How eggs became a victory for the animal welfare movement – “The fast shift toward uncaged hens is a sign of Americans’ increasing concern about animals, even ones known more …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Food and Nutrition, Legal Research

Declassified document offers view into drone strike approval process

Karen DeYoung – Newly declassified document sheds light on how Obama approves drone strikes – “The guidelines emphasize the importance of “verifying” the identity of high-value targets, even as they outline the criteria and legality of striking unidentified others when “necessary to achieve U.S. policy objectives.”

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

NASA releases extensive library of photos of Mars

TechInsider – “Today, Mars is the most studied planet in the universe (after Earth). The world has collectively launched 43 missions to the Red Planet, about half of which have been successful. It’s remarkable to see how much better the images got when spacecraft got up close, on flybys or landings. Watch how our view …

Subjects: Government Documents

Searchable guide to American Landfills and Waste Production

Via Save on Energy – guide, data and visualizations: “The average American tosses 4.4 pounds of trash every single day. It may not seem all that astonishing on the surface, but with 323.7 million people living in the United States, that is roughly 728,000 tons of daily garbage – enough to fill 63,000 garbage trucks. …

Subjects: Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

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