December 2006
transect points: Soil and Bioavailability of P in Food
Researchers find that soil phosphorus levels may affect plant phytate levels as much as plant breeding. Not only is the phosphorus in low-phytate grain crops more digestible by people, but low-phytate grains free up minerals essential to human nutrition: zinc, manganese and iron.
transect points: Soil Science Journal Club
a resource for people interested in recent advances in Soil Science in all its guises
February 2006
Directory of open access journals
by 14 othersThis service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aim is to cover all subjects and languages. As of 06FEB26, 2061 journals are listed in the directory, 509 journals are searchable at article level and 83356 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective
This article presents results of a survey undertaken as part of a series of work packages under a joint initiative by JISC and SURF to explore the attitudes of authors in the UK and the Netherlands towards Open Access. These and other results seem to reflect a desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. Libraries and academic institutes are already taking part in the scholarly communication copyright debate and could use these results to align their positions with the academics' views.
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