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Scholarly Communication - the process by which researchers publish their work and access the work of others - is in Crisis as academic institutions and research centres acquire an ever smaller amount of published research.

Researchers and librarians in North America, Europe and the UK, however, have begun to identify alternative publishing strategies which will:

• Make more research freely and more widely available
• Accelerate the dissemination of research
• Restore intellectual property rights to researchers themselves 

This website is intended to raise the profile of this crisis, stimulate discussion and provoke debate here at Glasgow.