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Have you ever wondered how a queen from the 16th century might have been able to have possibly advanced her country in technology? This question is a fascinating journey through history, where innovation met monarchy with Mary Tudor, also known as Bloody Mary.Her early years as queen were marked by a number of technological advances,
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Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a...
Tue, Jan 19th 2021 8:01pm — Glyn Moody Techdirt has been following the important copyright case in India that is about how people in that country can access academic journals. Currently, many turn to "shadow libraries" like Sci-Hub and Libgen, because they cannot afford the often hefty frees that academic publishers charge to access papers. If a new "Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy" (pdf), just released as a draft by the Government of India, comes to fruition, people may not need to: The Government of India will negotiate with journal publishers for a "one nation, one subscriptio...