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The borrowers' life on the shelf

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UK university libraries are coming under significant financial pressure because publishers are increasing prices by between 10% and 15% a year. Academics are responding by establishing transnational electronic publishing initiatives such as SPARC, which will make high quality peer-reviewed academic journals available at a much lower price than that charged by commercial publishers. Fred Friend, director of scholarly communications at University College London, believes that university libraries could also reduce their costs by cooperating more extensively.

United Kingdom, Finance, University and college libraries, Academic libraries

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The master's voice

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Many people find the work of Rembrandt fascinating, according to Ernst van de Wetering, professor of art history at Amsterdam University, Netherlands. He feels that form was as important as content for Rembrandt. The artist was greatly concerned with improvement and invention, and took innovative approaches to dealing with light, structure and composition. There are many different elements to Rembrandt's work, and studying it can become an addiction.

Influence, Interview, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Wetering, Ernst van de

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Going the whole hog

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Richard Dawkins is a zoologist and has been involved in a continuing battle with the religious fraternity about the origins and development of life. He has a reputation as an influential thinker in the field of modern biology, particularly due to his bestselling books, in which he advances the case for a gene that works to preserve and propagate itself.

Achievements and awards, Zoologists, Dawkins, Richard

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