Open access in scholarship and research

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

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Official site of International Open Access Week

http://www.openaccessweek.org/

For Disruption, MOOCs Beat Open-Access Journals

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/for-disruption-moocs-beat-open-access-journals-scholar-argues/47673?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Silent treatments of the killing of Mr. Ataollah Rezvani is continuing

 


The Iranian government is continuing its silent treatment of the killing of Mr Ataollah Rezvani.

http://behroozsabet.blogspot.com/2013/08/murder-of-mr-ataollah-rezvani-was.html

International community and human rights activists must make sure their voices are heard. This sinister killing is similar to the chain murders of the 80s and 90s and manifesting active operation of the dark forces of fanaticism and violence, lurking beneath the thin veneer of hypocrisy.

Ardeshir Mohasses: Images of a political satirist

With rich allusions to Persian miniatures, Western artists like Goya and episodes in Iranian history, Mr. Mohassess has depicted life in Iran before, during and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The drawings have a fanciful yet descriptive line quality, comically exaggerating facial expressions while giving full weight to bullet holes and severed limbs. Some of the meanings may be lost on American viewers, but the artist’s deep suspicion of religious and political authority comes across clearly.


http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/mohassess/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Mohasses






                   

    


          



















  

Vanities and delusions of communist dictatorship

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 A lost city: Photos of Bucharest's past

The next series of photographs showing everyday life under Ceausescu is like a haunting silent movie. We see desolate streets when there was no petrol, queues for food that never came, trams straddled by desperate commuters, useless cars buried under snow and a wedding party picking their way through the streets. No-one is smiling.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24368485

 http://estost.photoshelter.com/gallery/Romania-Life-1975-89/G0000E5xgbtlGc7w/