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The Chronicle of Higher Education. Has a wonderfully encouraging article. About academics taking on the tyranny of the academic publishing industry. The bottom line of the issue is the argument that publicly funded research should by rights be made publicly available. Is abusing academic researchers in three areas. First there are the prices.

Met for the first time by teleconference. Among other things, we discussed how the NicNames software might be able to help with the process of managing researcher names in the data curation environment. NicNames software developer Thomas Rutter reports. And the richer, native NicNames XML format.