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150 relations: Aaron Swartz, Academic institution, Academic journal, Academic publishing, Access to Knowledge movement, African Journals OnLine, Altmetrics, Amateur astronomy, American Library Association, Article processing charge, ArXiv, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Attribution (copyright), Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, Bioline International, BioMed Central, Blog, BMC Medicine, Budapest Open Access Initiative, Business model, Canada, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Canadian Library Association, Citation impact, Citation index, CiteSeerX, Civil service, Copyright, Copyright Clearance Center, Copyright policies of academic publishers, Creative Commons, Creative Commons license, Darenet, Delayed open-access journal, Developing country, Digital rights, Directory of Open Access Journals, Disciplinary repository, Dutch universities, Elsevier, Embargo (academic publishing), European Commission, Fast Company (magazine), File Transfer Protocol, Funding of science, FUTON bias, ..., Global Open Access Forum, Google Scholar, Grant (money), Gratis versus libre, Health care, HINARI, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Hybrid open-access journal, Impact factor, Index Copernicus, Information Today, Inc., Institutional repository, Interlibrary loan, International Mathematical Union, International Standard Serial Number, Internet, James Madison Award, Journal of Library Administration, Journalist, Junior college, Knowledge Unlatched, Laity, Latin America, Learned society, Librarian, Library publishing, List of open-access journals, List of open-access projects, Max Planck Society, Mega journal, Mental health professional, MIT Press, Modern Language Association, Monograph, NIH Public Access Policy, Nonprofit organization, OAIster, Open access, Open Access Button, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, Open Access Week, Open Archives Initiative, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Open content, Open data, Open Journal Systems, Open publishing, Open-access mandate, Open-access monograph, Open-access repository, Open-source appropriate technology, Open-source model, Open-source software, Overlay journal, Pay-per-view, Peer review, PeerJ, Peter Suber, PLOS, PLOS Biology, PLOS One, Politician, Postprint, Predatory open-access publishing, Preprint, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Professional, Public domain, Public Knowledge, Public Knowledge Project, Publishing, PubMed Central, Redalyc, Registry of Open Access Repositories, Research, Research Papers in Economics, Right to Internet access, SAGE Publications, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Sci-Hub, SciELO, Scientific journal, Scopus, Self-archiving, Serials crisis, SHERPA/RoMEO, Simmons College, Stevan Harnad, Subscription business model, Subversive Proposal, Sustainable development, The FASEB Journal, Thesis, Total cost, UNESCO, University, Web search engine, Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, World Health Organization, World Wide Web. Expand index (100 more) »
Aaron Swartz
Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist.
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Academic institution
Academic institution is an educational institution dedicated to education and research, which grants academic degrees.
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Academic journal
An academic or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published.
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Academic publishing
Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship.
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Access to Knowledge movement
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) movement is a loose collection of civil society groups, governments, and individuals converging on the idea that access to knowledge should be linked to fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development.
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African Journals OnLine
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is a South African non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the online visibility of and access to the published scholarly research of African-based academics.
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In scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics are non-traditional bibliometrics proposed as an alternative or complement to more traditional citation impact metrics, such as impact factor and ''h''-index.
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Amateur astronomy
Amateur astronomy is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.
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American Library Association
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.
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Article processing charge
An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make a work available open access in either an open access journal or hybrid journal.
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arXiv (pronounced "archive") is a repository of electronic preprints (known as e-prints) approved for publication after moderation, that consists of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online.
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Association of College and Research Libraries
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals.
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Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries at comprehensive, research institutions in the United States and Canada that share similar missions, aspirations, and achievements.
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the European Geosciences Union.
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Attribution (copyright)
Attribution in copyright law, is acknowledgement as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work.
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Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace.
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Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is an international statement on open access and access to knowledge.
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Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
The Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing is a 2003 statement which defines the concept of open access and then supports that concept.
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Bioline International
Bioline International is a non-profit cooperative that operates an online platform for sharing works by peer-reviewed open access bioscience journals published in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America.
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BioMed Central
BioMed Central (BMC) is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific open access publisher.
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A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").
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BMC Medicine
BMC Medicine is a peer-reviewed electronic-only medical journal published since 2003 by BioMed Central which is part of Springer Nature.
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Budapest Open Access Initiative
The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature, which was released to the public February 14, 2002.
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Business model
A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value,Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and 470 practitioners from 45 countries, self-published, 2010 in economic, social, cultural or other contexts.
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Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Canadian Association of Research Libraries
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) was established in 1976 and brings together thirty-one research libraries.
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Canadian Library Association
The Canadian Library Association (CLA) was a national, predominantly English-language association which represented 57,000 library workers across Canada.
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Citation impact
Citation impact quantifies the citation usage of scholarly works.
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Citation index
A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents.
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x or CiteSeerX but DISPLAYTITLE only allows changing an initial letter to lower case --> CiteSeerx (originally called CiteSeer) is a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers, primarily in the fields of computer and information science.
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Civil service
The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.
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Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, (although it is incorporated in New York State), that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials.
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Copyright policies of academic publishers
This is a list of the different copyright policies of academic publishers.
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Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
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Creative Commons license
A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
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DAREnet (2003 - 2007) stands for Digital Academic Repositories and is an initiative by the Dutch organisation Surf.
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Delayed open-access journal
Delayed open-access journals are traditional subscription-based journals that provide free online access upon the expiry of an embargo period following the initial publication date.
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Developing country
A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Digital rights
The term digital rights describes the human rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, or communications networks.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that lists open access journals and is maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA).
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Disciplinary repository
A disciplinary repository (or subject repository) is an online archive containing works or data associated with these works of scholars in a particular subject area.
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Dutch universities
Dutch universities are supported by state funding (with the exception of University Nyenrode) so that universities do not have to rely on private funding to facilitate tuition.
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Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.
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Embargo (academic publishing)
In academic publishing, an embargo is a period during which access to academic journals is not allowed to users who have not paid for access (or have access through their institution).
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.
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Fast Company (magazine)
Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design.
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File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.
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Funding of science
Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of both "hard" science and technology and social science.
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FUTON bias
FUTON bias is a term for the tendency of scholars to cite academic journals with open access—that is, journals that make their full text available on the Internet without charge—in preference to toll-access publications.
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Global Open Access Forum
The Global Open Access List (GOAL), until January 2012 the American Scientist Open Access Forum, is the longest-standing online discussion forum on Open Access (free online access to peer-reviewed research).
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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Grant (money)
Grants are non-repayable funds or products disbursed or gifted by one party (grant makers), often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual.
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Gratis versus libre
The English adjective free is commonly used in one of two meanings: "for free" (gratis) and "with little or no restriction" (libre).
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Health care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.
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HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme was set up by the World Health Organization and major publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature.
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a commercial publisher of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature.
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Hybrid open-access journal
A hybrid open-access journal is a subscription journal in which some of the articles are open access.
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Impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.
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Index Copernicus
Index Copernicus (IC) is an online database of user-contributed information, including scientist profiles, as well as of scientific institutions, publications and projects established in 1999 in Poland, and operated by Index Copernicus International.
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Information Today, Inc.
Information Today, Inc. (ITI) is the publisher of several Internet and Technology magazines, newsletters and books all geared toward the library, information & knowledge management community.
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Institutional repository
An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.
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Interlibrary loan
Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, and sometimes called interloan, interlending, document delivery, or document supply) is a service whereby a patron of one library can borrow books, DVDs, music, etc.
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International Mathematical Union
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world.
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International Standard Serial Number
An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication.
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The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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James Madison Award
The James Madison Award is administered by the American Library Association, which describes the award: The award named for President James Madison was established in 1989 and is presented annually on the anniversary of his birth to honor individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public's right to know at the national level.
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Journal of Library Administration
The Journal of Library Administration is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers library management.
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A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.
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Junior college
A junior college is a post-secondary educational institution designed to prepare students for either skilled trades or for additional education at another college with more advanced academic material.
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Knowledge Unlatched
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is an award-winning open access service provider registered as GmbH in Berlin, Germany.
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A layperson (also layman or laywoman) is a person who is not qualified in a given profession and/or does not have specific knowledge of a certain subject.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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Learned society
A learned society (also known as a learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organisation that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts.
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A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library, providing access to information and sometimes social or technical programming.
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Library publishing
Library publishing, also known as campus-based publishing, is the practice of an academic library providing publishing services.
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List of open-access journals
This is a list of open-access journals by field.
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List of open-access projects
Some of the most important open-access publishing projects or lists of such projects are listed below.
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Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and renamed the Max Planck Society in 1948 in honor of its former president, theoretical physicist Max Planck.
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Mega journal
A mega journal (also mega-journal and megajournal) is a peer-reviewed academic open access journal designed to be much larger than a traditional journal by exercising low selectivity among accepted articles.
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Mental health professional
A mental health professional is a health care practitioner or community services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders.
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MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).
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Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.
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A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author, and usually on a scholarly subject.
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NIH Public Access Policy
The NIH Public Access Policy is an open access mandate, drafted in 2004 and mandated in 2008,National Institutes of Health,, available at https://publicaccess.nih.gov/comments.htm.
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Nonprofit organization
A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.
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OAIster is an online combined bibliographic catalogue of open access material aggregated using OAI-PMH.
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Open access
Open access (OA) refers to research outputs which are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers, and possibly with the addition of a Creative Commons license to promote reuse.
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Open Access Button
The Open Access Button is a browser bookmarklet which registers when people hit a paywall to an academic article and cannot access it.
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Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a non-profit trade association representing the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines.
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Open Access Week
Open Access Week is an annual scholarly communication event focusing on open access and related topics.
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Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an organization to develop and apply technical interoperability standards for archives to share catalog information (metadata).
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Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed for harvesting (or collecting) metadata descriptions of records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives.
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Open content
Open content is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify freely, without asking for permission.
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Open data
Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.
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Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, and is created by the Public Knowledge Project, released under the GNU General Public License.
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Open publishing
Open publishing is a process of creating news or other content that is transparent to the readers.
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Open-access mandate
An open-access mandate is a policy adopted by a research institution, research funder, or government which requires researchers—usually university faculty or research staff and/or research grant recipients—to make their published, peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers open access (1) by self-archiving their final, peer-reviewed drafts in a freely accessible institutional repository or disciplinary repository ("Green OA") or (2) by publishing them in an open-access journal ("Gold OA") or both.
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Open-access monograph
An open-access monograph is a scholarly monograph which is made freely available with a creative commons licence.
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Open-access repository
An open-access repository or open archive is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute.
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Open-source appropriate technology
Open-source appropriate technology (OSAT) is appropriate technology designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software.
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Open-source model
The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.
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Overlay journal
An overlay journal or overlay ejournal is an open access academic journal, almost always an online electronic journal (ejournal), that does not produce its own content, but selects from texts that are already freely available online.
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Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television service by which a subscriber of a television service provider can purchase events to view via private telecast.
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Peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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PeerJ is an open access peer-reviewed scientific mega journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences.
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Peter Suber
Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge.
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PLOS (for Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit open access science, technology and medicine publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license.
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PLOS Biology
PLOS Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of Biology.
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PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
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A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.
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In academic publishing, a postprint is a digital draft of a research journal article after it has been peer reviewed.
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Predatory open-access publishing
Predatory open-access publishing is an exploitative open-access academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not).
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In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is the official scientific journal of the National Academy of Sciences, published since 1915.
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A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity.
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Public domain
The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge is a non-profit Washington, D.C.-based public interest group that is involved in intellectual property law, competition, and choice in the digital marketplace, and an open standards/end-to-end internet.
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Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project is a non-profit research initiative that is focused on the importance of making the results of publicly funded research freely available through open access policies, and on developing strategies for making this possible including software solutions.
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Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.
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PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives publicly accessible full-text scholarly articles that have been published within the biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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The Redalyc project (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) is a bibliographic database and a digital library of Open Access journals, supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México with the help of numerous other higher education institutions and information systems.
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Registry of Open Access Repositories
The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents.
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Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
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Research Papers in Economics
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in many countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics.
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Right to Internet access
The right to Internet access, also known as the right to broadband or freedom to connect, is the view that all people must be able to access the Internet in order to exercise and enjoy their rights to freedom of expression and opinion and other fundamental human rights, that states have a responsibility to ensure that Internet access is broadly available, and that states may not unreasonably restrict an individual's access to the Internet.
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SAGE Publications
SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.
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Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship.
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Sci-Hub is a website with over 69 million academic papers and articles available for direct download.
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SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals.
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Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research.
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Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004.
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Self-archiving is the act of (the author's) depositing a free copy of an electronic document online in order to provide open access to it.
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How to make money as a musician 2023
Make money with your music!
It might be difficult to make a fortune as a musician. You most likely need to hold down a second job to maintain your music career unless you're among the fortunate few who have achieved major success. Don't give up, however! As a musician, there are several methods to earn money. We'll go through some of the top methods to monetise your music in this article. Read on to learn how to start earning additional money with your music!
1 Live performance
This strategy has the potential to be the most successful. This might be a terrific source of money for you if you are charismatic on stage and draw crowds to your performances. When playing live the venue will pay the performer a percentage or a flat fee.
2 Record sales
Today, selling music records is still a major source of revenue for musicians. CDs are no longer as common as they previously were, but the popularity of digital downloads and streaming services like Spotify is growing rapidly. Make sure your music is distributed across all platforms, and establish a fan base so you can give customers exclusive deals. Make sure the distributor you choose will at the very least distribute your music to Spotify, iTunes, Amazon and Deezer.
3 Music Licensing
Allowing other businesses to use your songs for their own projects, like TV programs or films, is a process known as music licensing. If you are able to reach deals with reputable businesses, this might be a fantastic source of passive revenue. Just be sure that both parties will benefit from the deal before signing any agreements!
4 Merchandise
One fantastic approach to generate income as a musician is to sell products connected with your song. Fans will have the chance to demonstrate their support for your music by purchasing t-shirts, caps and other goods branded with your logo. To add value and increase their appeal to purchasers, you may even produce limited-edition goods.
5 Online Coaching
You might provide online tutoring services to musicians if you have sufficient expertise in the music business. We advise registering with Sidetrain or starting your own podcast podcast.
6 Sell vinyl
Publishing your music on vinyl might be a terrific way to earn some extra cash since vinyl isn't dead. The younger generation is growing and more into vinyl records now, which may offer your music a certain tangible feel that digital formats just cannot.
7 Live Streams and Twitch
Live streaming is becoming more and more popular and may be a wonderful method for musicians to monetize their work. Musicians often ignore websites that let you broadcast musical performances, such as , Tick Tock, Twitch, YouTube Live, and Instagram.
8 Patreon
Excellent outlet for artists looking to monetize their music is Patreon. It enables artists to design subscriptions that provide followers exclusive access to material and goods in return for monthly payments. Without having to depend on record sales or streaming services, this might be a useful method of making money off of your music.
9 Make beats
If you have production talent, you may be able to earn money by making beats and distributing them to other musicians. Without relying on album sales or live performances, this might be a terrific way to earn additional money.
10 Get royalties
If you want to get public performance royalties anytime your music is aired on the radio, TV, or streaming services, be sure you register it with a performance rights organization. Over time, even little income might stack up and prove to be valuable.
11 Start your YouTube channel
One of the finest methods to market your music and earn money as a musician is to launch a YouTube channel if you already have a following. If you hit a particular level for subscribers, you may even monetise your clips with adverts.
12 Sponsorships
Another fantastic option for musicians to get money is via sponsorships. Contact businesses in your industry and invite them to support your music or stage shows. This may be a successful strategy to earn some additional money while advancing your business.
13 Write for music publications
Consider contributing to music magazines like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone if you have a talent for writing. These journals often pay for high-quality content and may provide you visibility that will help you spread the word about your music further.
14 Session work
Another excellent approach for musicians to earn money is to work as session musicians. Don't be hesitant to get in touch and ask about openings in your region, businesses are always searching for skilled musicians to record pieces or perform live concerts.
15 Create your own music platform
Consider building your own music platform if you don't want to depend on streaming services like Spotify or iTunes. You'll be able to monetize your music as well as have much more control over how others listen to it. This platform may also be used to advertise other goods and services that are connected to your music.
16 Apply for music grants
Keep a look out for these prospects since there are various music scholarships and prizes available for artists. By submitting a project or award application, you may be able to get the funding you need to develop your musical career.
17 Create a course
Another excellent option for musicians to earn money is through developing courses. Musicians have the chance to develop courses that teach others how to play a musical instrument or compose music on websites like Udemy. This might be a fantastic opportunity to make some additional money while educating people about your profession.
18 Sell Services on Fiverr
Fiverr is a fantastic marketplace for offering services like ghostwriting, music production, mixing, and mastering. These programs not only allow you the opportunity to earn some additional cash, but also to network with prospective customers all around the globe.
19 Write an E-book
Consider authoring an e-book on music if you have any relevant knowledge or experience. This may be a terrific method to make money off of your expertise and expand your musical audience. Don't be scared to give self-publishing a go since it's simple thanks to websites like Amazon!
Check out our website with the biggest online music business contact database that includes music blogs, artist booking agencies, music festivals, radio stations, record labels, Spotify playlists, music online magazines and much more.
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Image: A trader watches the Trump inauguration on TV on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Yang
By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday in a modest but broad-based advance as Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. President, marking the first time in more than 50 years that a new commander-in-chief has been welcomed by a rising equity market on his first day in office.
In his speech, Trump said U.S. policy will be to buy American and hire American, reiterating what he had said many times during this campaign for the White House.
Some investors said the comments reinforced concerns about potential protectionist trade policies. Indexes pared gains during his speech and ended off the highest levels of the day.
However, the rally in stocks since the Nov. 8 election had stalled in recent weeks as investors awaited clarity on his plans to boost the economy. All three major indexes ended with losses for the week.
"We're now trading off of reality rather than hope, and it's natural to be a bit more cautious when we make that transition," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The S&P 500's 6.2-percent gain since the election is one of the best performances for the American stock market for any presidential transition period of the modern era.
Former President Barack Obama's transition period, which came amid the throes of the 2008 financial crisis, overlapped a 15.5 percent fall for the S&P 500 from his election to the day of his 2009 inauguration. Yet he presided over the second-best run for the stock market under any president since Dwight Eisenhower.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped a five-session losing streak, closing up 94.85 points, or 0.48 percent, to 19,827.25. The S&P 500 gained 7.62 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,271.31 and the Nasdaq Composite added 15.25 points, or 0.28 percent, to 5,555.33.
The last time when either the S&P or Dow rose on the day a new president was inaugurated was Jan. 20, 1961, when John F. Kennedy was sworn in to succeed Eisenhower. The S&P gained 0.32 percent and the Dow added 0.31 percent; the Nasdaq did not yet exist.
The first day aside, the coming month might not be as rosy. The S&P 500 has fallen by a median 2.7 percent in the month after each new president has taken the keys to the White House since Herbert Hoover in January 1929, according to a Reuters analysis.
Trump also loomed on the earnings front. Shares of Kansas City Southern rose 4 percent even as it reported a lower quarterly net profit that missed Wall Street estimates. A historic drop in the Mexican peso after Trump's election affected the regional U.S. railroad's operations in Mexico.
Among other gainers, Merck rose 3.6 percent to $62.53 after Bristol-Myers said it would not seek accelerated U.S. approval for a combination of its two immunotherapy drugs as an initial treatment for lung cancer, giving Merck an advantage in the lucrative market. Bristol-Myers' stock fell 11.3 percent.
About 6.6 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, higher than the 6.1 billion daily average for the past 20 trading days, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.76-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.58-to-1 ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 19 new 52-week highs and seven new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 85 new highs and 33 new lows.
(Editing by Nick Zieminski and James Dalgleish)
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What Are Lenten Roses?
The Helleborus x hybrids, or Lenten rose, was given its nickname because it blooms from February to April—that 40-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter known as Lent. Just when the winter doldrums begin to set in, this glorious plant springs to life—a burst of light and hope echoing the promise of resurrection in the midst of darkness.
Although these particular hellebores resemble wild roses, they are not true roses. They belong to the Ranunculacaea family. The most widely known Lenten rose has rich dark-green foliage and light yellow-green to vibrant red petals. However, there are many varieties, and colors can range from a deep blood-red to pure white and subtle variations in between. The bloom has five petals surrounding a ring of small, cuplike pods. Unlike most flowers, the sepals don't fall but hold on until spring arrives.
The foliage and flowers of the Lenten rose are perfect for cut-flower arrangements. When cutting a stem from a plant, be sure to cut at an angle and then cut vertically into the stem about 1 inch. This will help the stem and flower absorb more water and survive for at least a week or longer.
Growing Lenten Rose
- Culture: Plant a Lenten rose in rich, loose, woodsy soil, and fertilize in early spring. This slow-growing plant dislikes being disturbed and will be slow to recover when moved.
- Light: Heavy to light shade
- Moisture: Prefers moist, well-drained soil but is adaptable to drier situations
- Hardiness: Zones 4–9, remains evergreen from Zones 6–9
- Propagation: Division in late summer or autumn is the most common lenten rose propagation method. Hellebores can also be grown from seed but take three years to bloom.
Lenten Rose Varieties to Consider
- 'Red Lady': single petal, deep red
- 'Pink Lady': single petal, white with blushed pink
- 'Winter Queen': single petal with red, lavender to pink petals
- 'Mrs. Betty Ranicar': heavy double bloom, snow white
Cutting Hellebores for Arrangements
To get Lenten rose blossoms to last for longer than a day in an arrangement, you need to cut the flowers at the right time. The freshly-opened blossoms loaded with stamens will most likely wilt and hang their heads. Cut hellebore flowers when they have dropped most of their stamens and are starting form a seed pod at the center of the blossom. Their colors may have faded just a bit at this stage, but the flowers will usually last more than a week.
Lenten Rose Arrangements
Hellebores are not only a beautiful harbinger of spring, but a hardy cut flower with a vase life of 10-14 days. Below are some of our most popular arrangements that incorporate Lenten rose flowers.
A green and white springtime arrangement by Sullivan Owen. Sullivan Owen | Flower List: hellebores, hyacinths, tulips, lilacs, spray roses, dusty miller. Photo by Alison Conklin
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This rustic blue basket looks as though floral designer Sybil Sylvester of Wildflower Designs just scooped up a section of early spring garden. The composition includes hellebores, roses, and a mix of fragrant herbs including geranium, mint, sage, and lavender along with maidenhair fern and other flowers.
See more of Sybil's arrangements.
Françoise Weeks' arrangement captures the magic of new growth. Flower List: muscari, hellebores, anemones, ranunculus, sweet peas, alshemilla, magnolia branches, succulents, moss, maidenhair ferns, and koala ferns. Photo by James Fitzgerald III
See more of Françoise's springtime arrangements.
In this two-piece arrangement designed by Susan McLeary, succulents, ranunculus, hellebores, sweet peas, jasmine vine, tulips, muscari, and Fritillaria persica fill a verdigris container and appear to have sprung up from the top of this side table. Photo by Amanda Dumouchelle
See more of Susan McLeary's springtime arrangements.
Green-centered hellebores, crab apple blossoms in shades of pink, and English daisies fill a galvanized metal picther. What's not to love? Photo by Natalia Greeske


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Shakespeare's View was built in the 1990s as 2 cottages on the brow of a hill. The whole house is built on different levels, every room a step or two up and down.
We have a clear website, showing pictures of the property. Our Access Statement is on the website, clearly showing stating our accessibility.
The nearest town to Snitterfield is Stratford Upon Avon, which has rail and bus services, although bus services to the village are sporadic. It is therefore essential to have your own means of transport, to enjoy exploring Shakespeare Country and the surrounding area, as Taxis can prove expensive.
Guest have the use of off road parking, Shakespeare's View has 1 garage, and 2 forecourt parking area, which is well lit.
The detached garage is level with the road Kings Lane. However access to the rear garden and house is down a flight of stairs with 13 narrow step made of rough brick. There is a handrail. Access to the house is up 3 steps made of smooth blue brick.
The decoration of the house is bright with very good lighting, the interior is on different levels, a step up over the threshold into the entrance corridor, and a small step down into the Sitting room and dinning room. Access to the garden through the conservatory is down 3 wide York stone steps with no handrail.
The Orchard suite is accessed via its own wide exterior staircase of 13 steps.
There are a number of different lightings systems provided throughout the house, which gives our guests, with alternative needs for either brighter or dimmer or natural light.
The lounge is for guests use and is a large room with comfortable seating, and open log fire for our guests.
The guest bedrooms 1 double with private shower room, and 1 twin/double with ensuite shower room, are situated on the first floor, which is accessed up and flight of stairs with 14 steps, the stair case is a little steep. There is a handrail on one side, in keeping with the age of the property.
Once on the first floor there are no further steps. Both rooms are large and well lit, centrally heated, with adjustable thermostats, we also supply additional heating for our guests comfort.
Both shower rooms are large, well ventilated, bright rooms. We do have grab rail for the toilet but not in the shower.
We have a mature large garden, with lawn and shrubs, surrounded by our own 10 acre Plum orchard. The terrain is sloping, and the orchard uneven under foot. The patio, over looking the garden and orchard, has a selection of seating for our guests.
There are smoke alarms in strategic areas throughout the house.
Emergency help can be summoned through the ringing of a bell on the ground floor
Shakespeare's View, Kings Lane, Snitterfield, Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 0QB
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Shakespeare's View offers one Suite and two well featured rooms.
All guests have their own front entrance, sitting room with television and a conservatory dining room.
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AMTE Power, a battery cell manufacturer, has selected Dundee, Scotland, as the site for its first MegaFactory in a boost to the UK's ambitions to produce homegrown battery cells for a net zero society.
The new factory will directly create up to 215 high skilled on-site jobs and 800 more across the supply chain by producing the high performance battery cells needed to help electrify vehicles, homes, and industries for the UK's energy transition.
AMTE Power remains one of the only companies in the UK currently producing battery cells and the proposed new site at Dundee's Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) would ensure the business can rapidly scale up to mass manufacturing volumes.
The MegaFactory will complement AMTE Power's existing facility in Thurso, Caithness, enabling the company to respond to high levels of interest in its cells from customers in the automotive and energy storage markets and get them to market quicker.
AMTE Power is in discussion with Scottish Enterprise to help bring the development forward, in line with the organization's aim to provide funding and support to drive sustainable economic growth in Scotland.
The MSIP site is perfectly suited for a battery MegaFactory with a highly skilled, local workforce, onsite renewable energy, commitment from the Scottish Government for net zero manufacturing and good transport links.
Following the proposed state-of-the-art fit out of an existing building at MSIP, AMTE Power's 0.5GWh plant could be operational and in production by the third quarter of 2025 based on current planned timings, bringing new green collar manufacturing jobs to Scotland.
The plant will build upon the expertise AMTE Power has gained through its battery cell operations in Thurso, alongside the work the company is doing with the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre in Coventry and at its technology centre in Oxford.
The announcement is part of AMTE Power's evolved execution strategy to rapidly scale-up production and deliver on the UK market demand for its products. AMTE has the ambition to use the site at Dundee as a template for future factories producing its high value product for UK customers. The model is repeatable and is expected to enable AMTE to be flexible in meeting market demand for its differentiated cells.
MegaFactories are smaller than Gigafactories and can, therefore, be constructed and become operational much faster. They have the additional benefit of being able to use existing infrastructure providing more flexibility in location, requiring less investment and a faster path to profitability. Due to the high value nature of AMTE's products, a factory can be profitable at a smaller scale than the size of factories at multiple GWh size.
Commenting on the investment, Kevin Brundish, CEO, AMTE Power, said: "We are excited to announce Dundee as the preferred location for our first MegaFactory, a quantum leap for AMTE. The change in our execution strategy will accelerate our journey to mass manufacture of high value added, differentiated cells. The MegaFactory will be a platform from which AMTE can harness our advanced in-house capabilities to build further factories to meet the huge demand for battery cells – allowing us to rapidly scale up production and fast-track the path to achieving net zero.
"Battery cells are fundamental to enabling the UK's energy transition and with this investment, we will play a key role in electrifying the vehicles, homes and industries of the future. The site at Dundee is the ideal location for a MegaFactory, it has local industry knowledge and is close to our current and future customers in energy storage. We look forward to updating all stakeholders on our progress."


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Passengers using the new service won't have to quarantine upon arrival if a negative test is obtained
KLM and Delta Air Lines have announced that they are launching Covid-19-tested flights from Atlanta to Amsterdam from December 15, 2020.
The transatlantic partners have worked with the Dutch government, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to create the new testing scheme.
Customers taking part in the new program will be exempt from isolating upon arrival if a negative test result is acquired.
"Until an approved working vaccine is available worldwide, this testing program represents the first step towards the international travel industry's recovery," said Pieter Elbers, President and CEO of KLM. "All stakeholders need to work together on a systematic approach to rapid testing and build these tests into the passenger experience, so quarantine measures can be lifted as quickly as possible. This is fundamental to restore passengers' and governments' confidence in air travel."
Flights will begin to operate four times a week from Atlanta to Amsterdam. The flights will run for three weeks initially, with the hope that the program will be extended pending its success.
When customers purchase their tickets, they will be able to choose the Covid-19 tested flights, or alternatively another daily flight that isn't part of the trial.
Normally, entry requirements into the Netherlands require passengers to isolate for 10 days from arrival. However, if customers take a negative PCR test five days before arriving and ensure they self-isolate until departure, then they can eliminate the quarantine period when in the Netherlands.
Once a second negative PCR test at Schiphol Airport is collected, no quarantine will be necessary.
Dick Benschop, CEO of Royal Schiphol Group, said, "This is an important step to validate that test regimes make safe and responsible air travel possible while reducing the need for travel bans and long quarantine measures. We thank the Dutch Government and our partners."
The new protocol has been introduced for those needing to travel to the Netherlands for essential purposes, such as work or education.


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Park N Fly Glasgow Airport
This off airport car park is a short 5 minute shuttle bus ride from the terminal. The Park N Fly secure car park at Glasgow Airport is easily accessed from the M8. Park N Fly has the Park Mark®. There is a regular pick-up and drop-off service directly outside International Arrivals.
This car park is seasonal so will open in June and close in October
- Awarded the Park Mark® award for Safer Parking.
- Self parking system so you keep your keys
- Safe and secure compound with CCTV in operation
Distance to airport
On Airport
Free Courtesy Bus. Transfers operate 24 hours on demand taking 4 minutes to the terminal.
Opening periods
24 hours, 365 days.
Minimum stay
Facilities for the disabled
Trailer & Car
Other important information
This car park is seasonal so will open in June close in October
Park N Fly. MacDowall Street, Paisley, PA3 2NB
Arrival Procedure
Customers should drive towards the barrier. The car park's automatic number plate recognition system will recognise your number plate and automatically open the barrier for you.
Departure Procedure
On you return to the airport, customers should telephone before making their way to the Bus stop 5 located directly outside arrivals. Once you have located your car you should drive to the exit of the car park, the barrier will open automatically.
The car park has extensive CCTV, security lighting and security barrier on entry and exit. The car park is also frequently patrolled by staff. Park N Fly have been awarded the Park Mark® for Safer Parking award. The car park has been vetted by the police to ensure the site has adequate security measures in place.


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Astro Vibrational Tapestry Report by Starlene Breiter and Nikki Rich Thursday March 10, 2016 - The moon is in feisty Aries today. We feel a sense of adventure and independence under the Aries moon so do your own thing today! Our first aspect is a trine from the moon to Saturn which peaks at 4:36 PM. With this aspect we feel like we can accomplish what we set out to do. It helps us feel solid and grounded and like we can achieve our ambitions. So you can get it done today, whatever it is you are working on! The moon makes a square aspect to Pluto which is exact at 6:02 PM. This is the feeling of being confronted by our Jungian shadow, the darkness within. Like Luke Skywalker fighting Darth Vader in the cave only to realize it is himself behind the mask … that is the feeling this aspect brings. But confronting our shadow leads to growth, even if it is hard or scary to do so. The moon conjoins Uranus at 8:43 PM which is like an electric shock! Wake up! Dance! Move! We may have trouble sleeping after this aspect occurs because we feel a little wired but the best thing to do is find something rhythmic and active to do to channel this energy: dance, go for a walk, play an instrument, whatever has you moving and flowing! A great stone to work with today is strawberry quartz which helps us assimilate the energy we come into contact with at a higher plane. Rise up! And essential oil to use today is sweet orange which assists us in feeling more confident and appreciate who it is we really are. All times are in Eastern US Time. Namaste & until tomorrow! Your Rock Star Astrologers ~ Nikki Rich and Starlene Breiter Leave a Reply. |
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Solid Steps of Christian Growth A Study of 2 Peter 1:1-11. God's Call to Spiritual Growth 2Peter 1:3-11. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. John 15:8. Godliness. Living and Thinking Like Jesus Did Titus 2:11-13.
Solid Steps of Christian Growth A Study of 2 Peter 1:1-11
God's Call to Spiritual Growth2Peter 1:3-11 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. John 15:8
Godliness Living and Thinking Like Jesus Did Titus 2:11-13
True SuccessFacing every area of my life with the power of the Person of Jesus Christ God Sin Everyone Faith Virtue Charity Jesus in Me Uncertainty BrotherlyKindness Knowledge Believers Temperance Godliness Patience Self World Psalm 12:1 Promises of God
Practical Definition of Godliness • Living and Thinking Like Jesus Did – living toward God • Titus 2:11,12 • For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, • denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, • we should live soberly, • righteously, • and godly, • in this present world (not just in heaven!) • "True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it." William Penn • The opposite of godliness is… worldliness – like the world
The Christian's Choice Life • Two directions • Two natures or desires in us all • Two choices to make every moment of every day • Two results Death My Way God's Way Worldliness Godliness Proverbs 14:12 Romans 6:22 Matthew 7:13,14
Comparison • False Godliness (2Tim 3:1-5) • Displayed by those who are "lovers of pleasure" rather than "lovers of God" • Such piety or godliness is just an outward form • Done only to be seen by others, to impress them, for the purpose of self-glorification • True Godliness • True godliness is characterized by a "God-ward attitude" • I.e., seeking to be seen and approved by God, not man • Devoted to the will of God, desiring to please Him • Unless we have this "God-ward attitude", any act of piety is simply hypocrisy • The mystery of godliness is contrasted in the Bible with the mystery of iniquity (see 2 Thes 2:7) – both are hard to grasp
Our Great Example of Godliness – Jesus (1 Timothy 3:16) • A Life lived in the flesh – no cheating – God lived right here, among us, and under His own rules • Jesus was Proven by the Holy Spirit – empowered, and honoured by the Holy Spirit of God • Watched from heaven – Jesus had heaven's attention the whole time (cf Acts 19:15) – glued to their "TV sets" • He preached to the uttermost person – those most unlike Him – Gentiles, lost, ignorant, no rights • He was and is believed on and trusted by the whole world – not just by a select few, but by young and old, smart and dumb, rich and poor • He is now in heaven, seated in glory and is King of kings and Lord of lords! Godliness is to have my life lined up with Christ's life – to be living God-ward, instead of world-ward
Facts About Godliness • Godliness is Awesome – it is GREAT – not for wimps and cowards. Profitable for all things (1 Tim 4:7-8; 6:6) • Godliness is a source of Real Power in Your Life. • Paul warned about those with a form of godliness, but denying its power - 2 Tim 3:5 • True godliness contains "power" • In other words, if our conduct pleases God, He empowers us! • Do we desire power from God in our daily living? Then godliness, godly living, is necessary! • Godliness is only learned – it is not automatic, nor naturally occurring in your life: • Learned through right instruction (1Tim 6:3-11) • And learned through patiently going through trials – godliness is Built Upon Patience – no short-cuts
Godliness Shows… • The way we talk – godly or worldly • The way we give – liberally or selfishly • The way we dress – modestly or worldly • The way we love – selflessly or greedily • The way we think and feel – about others, or only about ourselves • The way we die – expectantly and restfully – only falling asleep, or fearfully, and lost!
Growing in Godliness • Requires Exercise... strenuous effort on our part (1Tim 4:7,8; 12-16) - "giving all diligence" (cf. 2Pet 1:5) • Requires Abstinence... • From disputes and arguments over unwholesome words (1Tim 6:3-4) • From influences of men who wrangle over sinful words (1Tim 6:5) • From materialism and the love of money (1Tim 6:6-10) • Flee these things, and pursue godliness (1Tim 6:11)
Conclusion • It is God's desire that we live godly lives, God-ward lives • Satan will direct his efforts on getting your focus on this world, and on this life, and on the failures and frustrations of this life, instead of on the Lord • Godliness has an enemy – self-righteousness • Our Great Example of godliness is Jesus • He proved that Godliness is Great, it is a source of REAL power, and it is something that is ADDED to our lives, one experience at a time – not automatic • Godliness Shows - in every area of our life that is seen by those around us • Godliness Grows in Our Lives by • Spiritual Exercise... strenuous effort on our part • Abstinence from things that are "of the world" • Fleeing those things, while hotly pursuing godliness


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نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
1 فارغالتحصیل مقطع دکتری رشتۀ مدیریت گرایش آیندهپژوهی پژوهشگاه شاخصپژوه، اصفهان، ایران
2 هیئت علمی بازنشستۀ مؤسسۀ عالی آموزش و پژوهش، مدیریت و برنامهریزی کشور، تهران، ایران
3 هیئت علمی بازنشستۀ دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی، تهران، ایران
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The main goal of the current research is to determine the alignment of human resource strategies with organizational strategies and to measure the effect of this alignment on the performance of education organizations in the provinces of the country. The basic premise of this discussion is that in organizations where human resource measures are not coordinated with the organization's strategy, there will be a drop in performance in the entire organization. The tool for collecting data is a questionnaire. The statistical population of the research is the general education departments of the country's provinces, which were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. To check the alignment of human resource strategies with organizational strategies, strategic reference point model has been used. Also one sample t-test and analysis of variance tests have been used to test the research questions. The obtained information and their interpretation show that in the general departments of education, the dominant type of organization strategy is reactive strategy and the dominant type of human resource strategy is secondary strategy. There is an alignment between organizational strategies and human resources strategies in some general education departments. Those departments that have more alignment between the organization's strategies and organizational elements, their performance is also higher.
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When you have to lie about someone, you have a diseased heart. You may get temporary euphoria but it won't last. It's a sign of their success and your failure. Sooner or later, it will all come back to you. Don't rob others of what is theirs. Fear the Almighty. He is All-Seeing. (Mufti Menk)
When someone lies, he is in fact is being dishonest for his lying may deceive someone and lure into what mischiefs he intends playing and misleading someone. Typically lies aim to deceive, when deception is successful, the hearer ends up acquiring a false belief (or at least something that the speaker believes to be false). When deception is unsuccessful, a lie may be discovered.
If lying becomes one's habit, then gradually he drifts from the path of truth and falls into the lap of the evil for lying step by step keeps opening varying shades of evil. And a time comes when a person is fully immersed in evil, and finds his actions as correct. Many big and notorious thieves and frauds started stealing and committing frauds from smaller things. And each success gave them impetus and courage to cheat and fraud more till they are so much intoxicated into evil doings that they continue their journey more into cheating and fleecing.
Lying take many forms like misinterpretation, exaggeration, defamation, deflection, fear of embarrassment, protecting ourselves or others from harm, or even cover ups of one's crimes and evil doing. By telling lie after lie, we eventually can suffer from building a false version of reality that increasingly distances us from our real selves. After repeatedly lying about the same thing, we may even come to believe it is true.
Islam, like all religions never encourages liars and lying. The major thrust of Divine commandments in Qur'an is about truth and being truthfulness for Allah likes those who speak the truth even under the most trying conditions.
يٰۤـاَيُّهَا الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللّٰهَ وَكُوۡنُوۡا مَعَ الصّٰدِقِيۡنَ
Believers! Have fear of Allah and stand with those that are truthful. [Surah 9. al-Tawbah:119]
It means: be truthful and adhere to truthfulness, and you will be among its people and will be saved from calamity, and this will make a way out for you from your problems.
Allah (SWT) says in 10th verse of Surah 2. Al Baqarah (The Cow):
فِىۡ قُلُوۡبِهِمۡ مَّرَضٌۙ فَزَادَهُمُ اللّٰهُ مَرَضًا ۚ وَّلَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ اَلِيۡمٌۙۢبِمَا كَانُوۡا يَكۡذِبُوۡنَ
(2:10) There is a disease in their hearts and Allah has intensified this disease.12 A painful chastisement awaits them for their lying.
That is Lying leads to inner turmoil and chaos. It topples our inner balance. It festers the soul of the individual and continues to taint the soul as many times as the individual engages in lying. Getting into the habit of lying can become toxic for the individual and those around him. Evil and sinful acts such as cheating, deceiving, fraud, forgery etc. are essentially all carried out by liars.
(Surah Al-Ankabut 29:2-3) Do people think that they will be let go merely by saying: "We believe," and that they will not be tested, for We indeed tested those who went before them? Allah will most certainly ascertain those who spoke the truth and those who lied.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is reported to have said:
You must be truthful, for truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise. A man will keep speaking the truth and striving to speak the truth until he will be recorded with Allah as a siddeeq (speaker of the truth). Beware of telling lies, for lying leads to immorality and immorality leads to Hellfire. A man will keep telling lies and striving to tell lies until he is recorded with Allah as a liar.
Save yourself from lying because it leads one towards sin and sin leads towards the Hellfire. A man will continue to lie and he will pursue his lie to the extent that, in the court of Allah Almighty, he is recorded as a great liar. (Tirmizi, vol. 3, p. 391, Hadees. 1978)
Once Prophet Muhammad ﷺ visited a market place where sacks of grains were stored. He saw some good grains, but when he put his inside the sack to check the quality, he found the lower layers were wet with an evil intent to add more weight to the grain. He was annoyed and admonished the seller for deceiving the buyers and making ill gotten profit. Today we find so many traders and sellers deceiving buyers by displaying quality stuff and supplying lower quality content. Such profits may buy them luxury, but the blazing fire of hell awaits them for deceiving and dishonesty.
The excellence of a believer is elevated beyond lying and is evident from the following saying of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ . A question was raised in the court of the Prophet: O Messenger of Allah! "Can a believer be a coward?" He ﷺ replied: "yes." It was asked: "can a believer be miserly?" He replied: "yes." Someone asked: "Can a believer be a liar?" The noble Prophet ﷺ stated: "No." ( Muwatta Imam Malik, vol. 2, p. 468. Hadees 1913)
Remember, lying is one of the signs of hypocrisy and we have seen how hypocrites of Medina bluffed and deceived Prophet Muhammad ﷺ umpteen number of times which harmed the interests of Muslims despite (false) assurances by the hypocrites to stand by the Muslims. Thus if a Muslim lies, he moves a step towards hypocrisy, something detest by Allah and His Prophet ﷺ.
So believers, if you are true Muslim and have total faith in Allah, then do not lie. If you have wronged someone, have the courage and character to stand up and own your mistake rather than telling hundred lies to cover up your crime.
For more Scholarly views and videos, please read our reference page: Scholars' Viewpoint on Important Issues Related to Islam.


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China has promised to take "necessary countermeasures" against the U.S. if Washington follows through on its threat to increase tariffs Friday on Chinese goods.
China's Commerce Ministry said Wednesday that Beijing will retaliate if U.S. tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods are hiked to 25% from 10% as threatened by President Donald Trump on Sunday.
"The escalation of trade friction is not in the interests of the people of the two countries and the people of the world," the ministry said. "The Chinese side deeply regrets that if the US tariff measures are implemented, China will have to take necessary countermeasures."
The post came just hours after Trump said that Beijing officials "informed" the White House that Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will lead the country's delegation "coming to the U.S. to make a deal."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later reinforced Trump's tweet, saying the administration has received "indications" from the delegation that they would like to make a deal. The precise "indications" conveyed by the Chinese were not immediately clear and Sanders did not offer further detail.
Trump's declaration that Beijing is looking to strike an agreement also followed an earlier tweet from the president, in which he claimed to know why China backed away from the negotiating table.
Trump said China is hoping that, if a Democrat is elected president in the 2020 election, the new administration will abandon the aggressive trade rhetoric.


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James 2:14-26
We have been exploring the words of Jesus' brother, James, through a letter James sent "to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations" (James 1:1b). James' letter referencing the "twelve tribes" suggests that the original readers of this letter were Jewish people, the twelve tribes, dispersed among the various nations of the Roman world who had come to believe in the message of hope that Jesus was the Messiah promised by God. This was a wonderful development in God's plan; people coming to faith. And as wonderful as it was that people were coming to faith, James was concerned that these people were not saved. How can that be? Does not faith in Jesus as the Son of God mean that we are forgiven, made free, and saved? Why "Yes" it does and "No" it does not. Yes, having faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior grants us salvation and eternal life. But James was concerned that the people had only accepted Jesus as an act of intellectual assent. James was concerned the people of these churches only thought about Jesus as a fulfilment of God's promises in Scripture and had not received Jesus as Lord of their life. Let me offer an oversimplistic illustration. I can believe that 4 plus 4 equals 8. I know that in my mind but knowing that fact changes nothing about my character, my ethics, my relationships with other people, my desire to express compassion, my soul, or my destiny. I simply believe 4 plus 4 equals 8. If I treat my belief in Jesus in a similar manner, that is I only believe Jesus was a historical figure, even sent by God, to teach and perform miraculous signs as the Messiah until he was killed, then nothing changes about my character, my ethics, and my destiny. I have not believed in the Biblical sense of believing. The Biblical sense of believing encompasses and changes my mind, body, and spirit.
If I only ever mentally accept Jesus, or his teachings, then "No" that sort of belief, that sort of faith, does not lead to salvation. C. S. Lewis, a 20th century Christian writer once observed, "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus]: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to" (Mere Christianity).
James was addressing the same issue C. S. Lewis talked about. James was concerned that some people in these congregations were living out their beliefs of mental acceptance of Jesus, an intellectual faith, which was in other words "practical atheism." Practical atheism is a faith in Jesus that does not transform the person and thus they are not saved.
James offered a test of sorts for these people, his readers, to take so that they could gauge for themselves whether their faith in Jesus was just intellectual or genuine leading to salvation. He started at Chapter 2, verse 14. James wrote, "14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?" James offered that intellectual faith cannot save anyone. Only a genuine faith that encompassed the mind, body, and spirit could save someone and that there would be easily identifiable evidence of that faith expressed through deeds. An intellectual faith could be secretive and hidden but a genuine faith cannot be hidden. A genuine faith would be evident through the deeds and actions. And so, James asked, "What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?" This is a rhetorical question in which the answer is such faith is not going to save anyone.
Where did James acquire such thoughts? James' source was, of course, his brother, Jesus. One day, crowds were coming toward Jesus. Jesus gathered his disciples and they, together with the crowds, moved up on the hillside. There Jesus sat down and began to teach. Among the things Jesus said were these words, "14 You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:14-16). Jesus' point was that genuine faith is like a light in the darkness. The darkness cannot hide the light and that everyone can see it. In the same way, our faith expressed through the performance of good deeds lets others know that God is part of us, and they see that God is glorified through our actions. In this sermon on the hillside, Jesus offered his disciples and the crowds a positive expression of how deeds reveals our faith.
We learn the same lesson about deeds in a completely opposite way at the scene of the crucifixion. Jesus was crucified with two criminals, one on each side of him. One of the criminals hurled insults at Jesus. "40 But the other criminal rebuked him [the insulter]. 'Don't you fear God,' he said, 'since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.'" This criminal was making clear that his deeds expressed an outworking of his beliefs and that his own deeds were deserving of death. The criminal saw that Jesus expressed an outworking of his beliefs and that Jesus' deeds were deserving of life. Biblical belief in Jesus, that is believing in mind, body, and spirit will cause us to express an outworking of our beliefs with deeds that are deserving of life. With an active faith, we move from death to life, which is the very meaning of salvation.
So James had a good foundation from which to open this topic of faith and deeds when he wrote, "14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, 'Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead" (James 2:14-17). James gave us this painful example of dead faith. He supposed an encounter with another believer in Christ who is without clothes and without food. And the response is, "Go in peace; keep warm and well fed." This is a response empty of heart. It is shocking and cruel. James minces no words. Faith expressed in such a manner is dead. When we think of something as dead, we think of it as no longer having life. The sense James was conveying is slightly different. Faith without action was dead in that it was "never alive." It is not that the light has gone out, it is that the light was never lit. We might think to ourselves, "I would never be so cold and heartless to a member of my church who is without food or clothing. I would give them something to wear and something to eat." But what about the member whose love one dies, do we do more than send a card or offer a "I'm sorry?" What about the member who cares for a sick family member at home and is now rarely seen? Do we bring a meal to make to burden lighter? My point is not to compile a long list of things we could be doing for one another. My point is that we should not assume James' specific illustration of a heatless response to the needs of another does not more generally apply to us.
The Apostle John expressed this idea in this manner, "6 If we claim to have fellowship with him [If we claim to believe in Jesus] and yet walk in the darkness [without his light within us], we lie and do not live out the truth" (1 John 1:6). John's point was that faith in Jesus, genuine belief in Jesus, must be lived out in a manner like Jesus not because we are obligated to do so but because we must. We must because John could not imagine a life lived in another way. Moreover, John and James wanted their readers to know that consistent Christian living has the power to draw others towards the kingdom of God and that an inconsistent Christian life repels people from the kingdom. We become a stumbling block to others.
As we return to James, we see that James was no one's fool. He knew his words would spark some disagreement. Beginning in verse 18, James dealt with the disagreement. "18 But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?" James then offers two examples of faith and deeds together as a unity. James' first example is that of Abraham, the founder of the Hebrew people and for the Jews a man of unquestioned and unquestionable character. James asked, "21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions [deeds] were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called God's friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone." For the Jewish people, now believers in Jesus, at least intellectually, seeing the example of Abraham combining faith and actions would be compelling. Jews would welcome having their life favorable comparison to the likes of Abraham.
For James' second example, James goes a completely different direction from the faith of Abraham. James selected a woman named Rahab. When we first meet Rehab (Joshua 2:1) in the Bible, we see she is a woman of questionable reputation because she was a prostitute. Rahab was living in the city of Jericho, a city under the control of the Canaanites. Rahab was not Hebrew. Yet, she offered comfort, protection, mercy, hospitality, and faith to Hebrew spies sent to Jericho in advance of an attack by the Hebrew armies. Rahab gave testimony to the goodness and greatness of God with her words and the strength of her faith through her actions to safeguard the Hebrew spies. James used Rahab in his second example of the unity of faith and deeds. He wrote, "25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?" James 2:25). Rahab was faithful in her words and actions. And so, James offered two seemingly unmatched bookends with Abraham and Rahab as model examples of the unity of faith and action. Yet, as different as Abraham and Rahab appeared, they were similar because their faith informed their actions and they demonstrated their faith. In using unmatched bookends for his examples, James made clear that we can all find ourselves somewhere in that spectrum between prostitute and patriarch. Thus, James' message of faith applies to us.
James then concluded, "26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead." The spirit, the very breath giving life, must be present to energize and show evidence the body is alive. No breath, no life. So too, are deeds the evidence of a body alive in Christ. No deeds, no life.
What then do we do with James' teaching? James' words should make us free and make us alive. James' words should reinforce to us that Jesus did not say to us, "Pick up your cross and sit right there!" Jesus said, "Follow me!" To be in Christ, to be saved by Christ is to be free, alive, and as active in following him as our mind, body, and spirit are capable. If you are a believer in Jesus, then you want to be obedient to Him. If you are obedient to Him, then you are a believer. Belief and obedience are two sides of the same coin. As far as I know, there is no one sided coin. Obedience precedes faith and obedience is a consequence of faith. Each of us should examine our lives in view of James' words and immediately look for those opportunities to express our faith in action and service in the name of Jesus, our Savior and giver of life. Amen and Amen.