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4. Kristian Noel Pedersen - December 1st, 2017
5. Kalle Mattson - Twice The Gifts (Half The Love)
6. Frontperson - Shorter Days (Winter Version)
7. Megan Nash and Bears in Hazenmore - Snowbank
8. Colyn Cameron - Golden State Address
9. Late King Daisy - December 25th
10. respectfulchild - s.a.d
11. Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - The Young Winter
12. Jesse Dandelion - Can I Call You On Christmas
13. Kashka - It's Winter Now
14. Hillsburn - Like The Winter (Revisited)
15. Whitehorse - Ho Ho Ho
16. Future States - That Time
17. Smaller Hearts - Christmas At Home
18. Graham Van Pelt - Snowball Fight With My 2 Best Friends
19. Bleu Nuit - Les Automobiles
20. Joshua Van Tassel - Winter
FWIW, the British alternative scene gets plenty of coverage at Christmas, so it's cool that the annual Line of Best Fit holiday collection is a showcase for Canadian artists and bands. And many, if not most, of the songs on "Ho Ho Ho Canada" are recorded exclusively for this free compilation.
But lets start with a couple of the numbers that aren't exclusive. Begonia's "It Won't Be Christmas ('Till You're Here)" is one of those awesome singles I fully intended to include in one of our singles round-ups, but I never got to it. If I had a nickel for every single I didn't get to this year, I'd have a lot of nickels. In spite of the fact that the lyrics do a lot of check-listing, the fusion of Indie Pop and Motown Soul will win my heart every time.
Whitehorse had a remarkable Alt Rock Christmas album this year. In almost any other year, "A Whitehorse Winter Classic" would be the record everyone was buzzing about. But, in a year with holiday albums from Eric Clapton, JD McPherson, Rodney Crowell, Ingrid Michaelson, The Monkees, The Mavericks, The Old 97's, John Legend, PJ Morton and (God forgive me) William Shatner, not to mention...well, let's not. Point is, Whitehorse got a little lost in the shuffle. Or, in some cases, lost in the battle of the wallet. But "A Whitehorse Winter Classic" is still a great album. And it's going to still be a great album next year when...there can't possibly be as many "must buy" Christmas albums next year as there were this year, can there? Whitehorse just happened to have a song called "Ho Ho Ho". Wasn't that convenient? And, by the way, Whitehorse has their own Advent Calendar going on, so don't miss out on all the fun.
Kristian Noel Pedersen's "December 1st, 2017" is spritely Indie Pop on the subject of holiday shopping. As the title might suggest, this one's from 2017. After you listen, you're going to want to head over to Bandcamp and grab the name-your-price holiday album "December 1st, 2017" comes from...and all the previous volumes, as well. (And, as if that wasn't enough, Kristian's Christmas records tend to come out just a few days before Christmas...so keep an eye open for the 2018 edition.)
The rest of "Ho Ho Ho Canada 10" features everything from Ambient Electronica to Alt Folk and plenty of the Indie Pop and Indie Folk we've come to expect from The Line of Best Fit.
Kalle Mattson's "Twice The Gifts (Half The Love)" may be the first Christmas song written from the perspective of a child of divorce. Jesse Dandelion's lo-fi Electro Pop "Can I Call You For Christmas" is irresistibly delightful. There's Indie Folk from Hillsburn and lo-fi Indie Folk from Frontperson. If you're looking for something completely different, try "That Time" by the Art Pop band Future States or "Les Automobiles" from Post-Punkers Bleu Nuit. I never know whether Ambient music is good or not, but I do know what I like. And I like Joshua Van Tassel's "Winter", which closes "Ho Ho Ho Canada 10". Joshua doesn't call his music Ambient (which, I guess, further shows my lack of understanding of the genre), but "Winter" is very Vangelis.
My personal favorites (upon first listen) were "Snowbank" by Megan Nash and Bears in Hazenmore and "Christmas At Home" by Smaller Hearts. Yeah, I like that sort of thing so that's the sort of thing I like.
But there's plenty, here, to sink your teeth into and it's all a free gift from the artists and The Line of Best Fit. You can read about the artists and songs at the magazine's web site and you'll find the download on Bandcamp.


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In December 2003 the San Diego Natural History Museum, in collaboration with the Irvine Museum, premiered its exhibition, Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien.
This exhibition displayed 80 stunning watercolor paintings of California plants painted in the early 1900s by Albert R. Valentien.
Beautiful products based on images from the Valentien Collection are available in our Museum Store.
The Museum is grateful to Eleanor and Jerome Navarra for generously underwriting the conservation, documentation, and exhibition of the Valentien collection.
Photography by Philipp Rittermann.
Adiantum aleuticum. This cold-climate Maidenhair fern is abundant on damp forest floors and cliffs in northern California, and ranges north to Alaska and across the Rocky Mountains. In this and other maidenhairs, the spore-bearing tissues are concealed beneath the rolled-under edges of the fan-shaped leaflets.
Equisetum telmateia. Horsetails evoke the artists' renditions of primordial eras – and rightfully so, as the family dates back several hundred million years. Their reproductive system is primitive, producing spores in a conelike structure at the tip of the stem. However, they more frequently multiply asexually through rhizomes.
Calochortus venustus. Valentien especially enjoyed painting species of Calochortus, a stunning genus in the Lily family that displays its greatest diversity in California; 65 species show a dazzling panoply of variation. The name Calochortus comes from the Greek for "beautiful grass"; the latter refers to the linear, grass-like leaves. Many species have special conservation status, as either threatened or endangered, with specific, restricted distribution.
Lewisia howellii. Named after Captain Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, this species of Lewisia is a fascinating plant found clinging by a very stout taproot to rocky outcrops, wedged into crevices, and in cracks on canyon walls. The flowers with their pink and white candy-striping are charming and showy against the backdrop of a basal rosette of dark green leaves. This beautiful plant is a threatened species in northern California.
Eschscholzia californica. Nobody viewing a rolling landscape golden with these brilliant poppies would dispute its choice as California's state flower. California Poppy occurs in nearly every county of the state, as well as outside the state boundaries. A self-seeding annual, sometimes resprouting from its sturdy taproot, it readily naturalizes where garden conditions are suitable.
Romneya trichocalyx. Hairs on the sepals and slightly smaller flowers distinguish this poppy from its cousin, R. coulteri. The Matilija Poppy has a somewhat greater native range, blooming from northern Baja California to Ventura County.
Darlingtonia californica. The carnivorous California Pitcher Plant is endemic to the Klamath region of northwest California and southern Oregon, with a few disjunct populations. It is restricted to nutrient-poor soils in seeps usually called "Darlingtonia bogs." Insects enter the tubular modified leaves, which are nearly closed by a hood with transparent patches. Exhausted in the attempt to escape, they eventually light on the slippery wall of the leaf, where downward-pointing hairs force them to the pool of enzyme-laden water below.
Carpenteria californica. The Tree Anemone, with its showy clusters of large white flowers is a threatened species of California. It is known from only seven occurrences in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and these are in areas threatened by development, logging, and grazing. It is in the same family as the better-known Mock Orange, and is also used as a landscaping plant, but unlike its relative, it keeps its dark glossy leaves year-round.
Heteromeles arbutifolia. Toyon, a widespread member of the rose family, is a large shrub or small tree which is a fairly inconspicuous element of coastal scrub and chaparral until late in the season. Abundant clusters of bright red berries persist through the late fall and winter following the late summer flowering of this native shrub, giving it another common name, Christmasberry. The berries provide a source of food for migratory birds and winter residents.
Aesculus californica. The showy floral spikes of the California Buckeye will give way to large green pods, which in turn produce the shiny brown seeds--sometimes called horse chestnuts--that give the plant its name. Though all parts are toxic, the nut meal can be made edible by leaching, and was a food used by indigenous Californians. This winter-deciduous small tree is found in the mountains and foothills of central California.
Ceanothus tomentosus. This and other species of Ceanothus are common in chaparral on hillsides and mountains throughout southern California. At the peak of their springtime bloom the flowers can look like a purple mist over the hills. The name "tomentosus" refers to the fuzzy underside of the leaf.
Fouquieria splendens. Hummingbirds and desert visitors alike delight in the flame-like bloom of the Ocotillo, borne high in the air on spiny whiplike stems. The Ocotillo sheds its leaves during the hot dry months, and quickly takes advantage of scarce desert moisture by sprouting fresh leaves and flowers in as few as 72 hours after a rain.
Cylindropuntia bigelovii. The Teddy Bear Cholla is cuddly only in appearance, as it is abundantly armed with spines and hairlike glochids, to the dismay of any who approach too near. Detached stem segments often litter the ground around the plant, another hazard for passersby. This is the primary method of dispersal for this species, as these loose cactus joints may root wherever they are carried.
Opuntia basilaris. The vivid colors of the flowers of the Beavertail Cactus are due to a type of pigment known only in a few plant families. Although the lack of spines on this cactus give the plant a benign look, the Beavertail Cactus is well armored: thousands of hairlike spines, called glochids, are borne in circular patches on the pale blue-green pads.
Cirsium occidentale. Valentien has captured the coarse, bold beauty of this prickly, spiny plant, with its tightly-packed head of purplish-red disk florets. This plant is also known as the Compact Cobwebby Thistle.
Balsamorhiza deltoidea. Balsam-Root is so-called because of the sticky sap found in the taproot of the plant. Found on sunny slopes with well-drained soils in northwestern California, Oregon, and British Columbia, Balsam-Root's showy blooms appear in spring and summer.
Xerophyllum tenax. This member of the lily family persists for several years without flowering, suddenly giving rise to a showy flowering stalk which dies back after setting fruit. The leaves of Bear-grass were used by indigenous people to make water-tight baskets.
Lilium washingtonianum. The Washington Lily is the largest white lily native to the United States. It blooms during the heat of the summer in the chaparral and coniferous forests of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges.


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Best Business Books 2008
(originally published by Booz & Company)Our annual review can help. It whittles the towering stacks down to three dozen books, covered in 10 essays written by a stellar group of commentators, including distinguished newcomers to this magazine like Margaret Wheatley and seasoned veterans like James O'Toole.
In choosing the year's best business books, we made long lists of likely candidates, but each writer selected which works to read and review for himself or herself. That makes the connections and contradictions between these essays all the more unexpected and interesting.
For example, Nell Minow, cofounder of the Corporate Library, points out that biographies and memoirs are always subject to inherent bias in the selection and presentation of facts. We see this bias in the contrast between Ted Sorensen's memoir, Counselor, one of Minow's selections, and the portrait of Sorensen that Robert Schlesinger paints in White House Ghosts, one of Michael Schrage's picks as a best book on rhetoric.
Another example: Wheatley and Carole Schwinn's passionate and provocative essay on capitalism and community reviews books that explore the collision of the Western economic perspective and globalization. The theme reemerges in Kishore Mahbubani's The New Asian Hemisphere, a selection of former Economist editor Marc Levinson in his essay on globalization, and then surfaces again in Pankaj Ghemawat's Redefining Global Strategy, a selection in the strategy essay by IMD Professor Phil Rosenzweig.
The business ramifications of digital technology echo through Catharine P. Taylor's insider's review of marketing books and the essay on innovation by New York Times Magazine contributing writer Jon Gertner. And it returns again in Clayton M. Christensen's Disrupting Class, a selection in the essay on books about human capital by strategy+business Contributing Editor Sally Helgesen.
Ultimately, choosing best books in any genre is a wonderfully subjective pursuit in which the only opinion that really counts is that of the individual reader. You may agree or disagree with our choices for this year's best business books, but be assured they are all worthy of your quiet hours.
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Here is the archive of all of the club newsletters, back to Volume 1 Issue 1 in 1958. Thank you to the distinguished club of editors:
Helen Brick | Elliott Weisman, K3JJZ | Harry Stein, W3CL | Rick Connor, WC2K |
Harry Brown, W3IIT | Rick Rosen, K1DS | Doc Whitticar, W3GAD | Lenny Wintfeld, W2BVH |
And many thanks to Bert, K3IUV, for locating and scanning the many years of newsletters.
Notes: There were no issues for September 1960, and August, September, October 2007. December 2007 was possibly/probably not issued.
March, April, May, and June of 2008 also not issued.


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The US Supreme Court ruled that naturally occurring isolated biological material is not patentable, but a synthetic version of gene material may be patented.
In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court ruled on June 13 that naturally occurring isolated biological material is not patentable, but a synthetic version of gene material may be patented.
In the case, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, patient groups sued Myriad Genetics over the company's claim of patents relating to the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, whose mutations are linked to increased hereditary risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Since Myriad held the patents to the genes, it was the only company that could test for potential abnormalities.
The case illustrated the debate over costly genetic research and patient access to affordable care. Companies that spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in genetic research argue that patents encourage medical innovation that can save lives. Patient rights groups argue the high cost of tests provided by patent holders restricted the availability of diagnostic care to high-risk patients.
In the court decision, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, "Genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible under [federal law] simply because they have been isolated from the surrounding genetic material.
"Myriad did not create anything," wrote Thomas. "To be sure, it found an important and useful gene, but separating that gene from its surrounding genetic material is not an act of invention."
However, the court also noted, "cDNA does not present the same obstacles to patentability as naturally occurring, isolated DNA segments."
"We believe the Court appropriately upheld our claims on cDNA, and underscored the patent eligibility of our method claims, ensuring strong intellectual property protection for our BRACAnalysis test moving forward," said Peter D. Meldrum, Myriad Genetics president and CEO in a press statement. "More than 250,000 patients rely upon our BRACAnalysis test annually, and we remain focused on saving and improving peoples' lives and lowering overall healthcare costs."


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MIT chemical engineers invented smartphone-readable microparticles that can be used to verify goods and crack down on counterfeiting. By encoding these particles with different colored stripes, they can generate vast quantities of unique combinations that can be used to tag products.
Some 2 to 5 percent of all international trade involves counterfeit goods, according to a 2013 United Nations report. These illicit products — which include electronics, automotive and aircraft parts, pharmaceuticals, and food — can pose safety risks and cost governments and private companies hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
Many strategies have been developed to try to label legitimate products and prevent illegal trade — but these tags are often too easy to fake, are unreliable, or cost too much to implement, according to MIT researchers who have developed a new alternative.
Led by MIT chemical engineering professor Patrick Doyle and Lincoln Laboratory technical staff member Albert Swiston, the researchers have invented a new type of tiny, smartphone-readable particle that they believe could be deployed to help authenticate currency, electronic parts, and luxury goods, among other products. The particles, which are invisible to the naked eye, contain colored stripes of nanocrystals that glow brightly when lit up with near-infrared light.
These particles can easily be manufactured and integrated into a variety of materials, and can withstand extreme temperatures, sun exposure, and heavy wear, says Doyle, the senior author of a paper describing the particles in the April 13 issue of Nature Materials. They could also be equipped with sensors that can "record" their environments — noting, for example, if a refrigerated vaccine has ever been exposed to temperatures too high or low.
The paper's lead authors are MIT postdoc Jiseok Lee and graduate student Paul Bisso. MIT graduate students Rathi Srinivas and Jae Jung Kim also contributed to the research.
A massive encoding capacity
The new particles are about 200 microns long and include several stripes of different colored nanocrystals, known as "rare earth upconverting nanocrystals." These crystals are doped with elements such as ytterbium, gadolinium, erbium, and thulium, which emit visible colors when exposed to near-infrared light. By altering the ratios of these elements, the researchers can tune the crystals to emit any color in the visible spectrum.
To manufacture the particles, the researchers used stop-flow lithography, a technique developed previously by Doyle. This approach allows shapes to be imprinted onto parallel flowing streams of liquid monomers — chemical building blocks that can form longer chains called polymers. Wherever pulses of ultraviolet light strike the streams, a reaction is set off that forms a solid polymeric particle.
In this case, each polymer stream contains nanocrystals that emit different colors, allowing the researchers to form striped particles. So far, the researchers have created nanocrystals in nine different colors, but it should be possible to create many more, Doyle says.
Using this procedure, the researchers can generate vast quantities of unique tags. With particles that contain six stripes, there are 1 million different possible color combinations; this capacity can be exponentially enhanced by tagging products with more than one particle. For example, if the researchers created a set of 1,000 unique particles and then tagged products with any 10 of those particles, there would be 1030 possible combinations — far more than enough to tag every grain of sand on Earth.
"It's really a massive encoding capacity," says Bisso, who started this project while on the technical staff at Lincoln Lab. "You can apply different combinations of 10 particles to products from now until long past our time and you'll never get the same combination."
"The use of these upconverting nanocrystals is quite clever and highly enabling," says Jennifer Lewis, a professor of biologically inspired engineering at Harvard University who was not involved in the research. "There are several striking features of this work, namely the exponentially scaling encoding capacities and the ultralow decoding false-alarm rate."
Versatile particles
The microparticles could be dispersed within electronic parts or drug packaging during the manufacturing process, incorporated directly into 3-D-printed objects, or printed onto currency, the researchers say. They could also be incorporated into ink that artists could use to authenticate their artwork.
The researchers demonstrated the versatility of their approach by using two polymers with radically different material properties — one hydrophobic and one hydrophilic —to make their particles. The color readouts were the same with each, suggesting that the process could easily be adapted to many types of products that companies might want to tag with these particles, Bisso says.
"The ability to tailor the tag's material properties without impacting the coding strategy is really powerful," he says. "What separates our system from other anti-counterfeiting technologies is this ability to rapidly and inexpensively tailor material properties to meet the needs of very different and challenging requirements, without impacting smartphone readout or requiring a complete redesign of the system."
Another advantage to these particles is that they can be read without an expensive decoder like those required by most other anti-counterfeiting technologies. Using a smartphone camera equipped with a lens offering twentyfold magnification, anyone could image the particles after shining near-infrared light on them with a laser pointer. The researchers are also working on a smartphone app that would further process the images and reveal the exact composition of the particles.
The research was funded by the U.S. Air Force, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, the Singapore-MIT Alliance, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Office, and the National Institutes of Health.
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The crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight in eastern Ukraine holds many important clues about what happened to the plane. But that site is under the control of pro-Russian separatists who are suspected of involvement in shooting the plane down.
The rebel fighters say they are giving access to investigators, including those from the Ukrainian government, though one Ukrainian official who visited the scene Friday said he was not given full access.
Here are some of the key questions on the investigation into Flight MH17:
The U.N. Security Council called for a "thorough and independent investigation" of the downing of this plane. Is that possible, in the middle of a war zone?
It's likely to be very difficult. Even though there's been talk of a cease-fire to facilitate an investigation, there were reports of fighting Friday within earshot of the wreckage site.
Normally, a crash like this would be investigated by the country in whose airspace it took place.
Pro-Russian paramilitary groups have declared independence in the region, and they've been claiming the airspace, too.
The separatists said today that they would allow investigators access to the site, including international experts.
A team of international monitors did visit the site today. Any word from them?
About 30 observers and experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe visited the scene.
The regional governor, who is on the side of the Ukrainian government, charged that the paramilitaries were interfering with the investigation and not giving the experts full access to the wreckage.
What would the investigators be looking for?
Some outside analysts have said the experts may be able to figure out where the plane was hit and determine the missile's trajectory.
That could show where the missile was fired from.
They'll also be looking for fragments of the missile itself, because these weapons generally have markings that show where and when they were made.
One big problem is that the plane was apparently hit at high altitude and the debris and bodies of passengers came down over a very wide area.
Videos show that the site is not very secure — there have been armed men and volunteers tramping around and going through the wreckage, so no matter what the outcome of the investigation might be, there will probably be allegations of evidence-tampering.
There's been a lot of attention to the missile that supposedly brought this plane down. What do we know?
Ukrainian officials say the missile was a Soviet and Russian type known as the SA-11 Buk missile system.
A lot of the discussion has focused on where the paramilitaries would have gotten these weapons and how they would have been able to operate them well enough to hit a fast-moving target at 33,000 feet.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the U.N. said that Ukrainian intelligence has videos and photos showing the rebels have at least two of these systems.
The systems are very complex to operate. It takes a lot of training to use one effectively, so Ukrainian officials are also suggesting that Russian soldiers may have been assisting or manning the weapon.
There was a lot of contradictory talk about the black boxes, the flight data and voice recorders from the plane. Do we know now who has them?
It's unclear now who has them. But the one piece of news that came out was that Russia says it doesn't intend to take custody of the boxes and that they should be handed over to international investigators.
That could be a way to pre-empt claims from Ukraine that Russia somehow manipulated the data to protect the paramilitaries.
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As members will be aware over the past couple of weeks we have been collating feedback and comments from you all on the RCUK's revised policy on open access. Many, many thanks to those members and Committee whom have contributed to the drafting of UKCoRR's response – which I can confirm has just been submitted to their communications officer. In the spirit of the openness that underlies everything UKCoRR does – the text of the communication follows. Naturally we'll share with you any and all response the Committee receives.
UKCoRR, on behalf of its membership, wishes to respond to the RCUK's proposed policy on access to research outputs, given that it is an area that directly impacts on the activities of our 250+ members across the UK's research establishments.
At the outset, UKCoRR would like to commend the RCUK for a very clear, positive and explicit statement. In particular the restriction of support for embargoes longer than 6 months post-publication (12 for AHRC and ESRC funded work). UKCoRR are also delighted to note the tone of the policy in favouring more Open Access friendly journals and publishers for RCUK funded research outputs.
There are, however, several issues, concerns and clarifications that our membership would like us to flag up for your attention and consideration.
Definition of Open Access
UKCoRR would query the definition of Open Access to scholarly publications as digital journal articles. "The Research Councils define Open Access to mean unrestricted, on-line access to peer reviewed and published scholarly research papers." [p2] and likewise your classification of books or monographs as "grey' literature" [p3]. There are many other types of authoritative research output besides pdfs of journal articles, especially in arts and humanities research. It is our belief that the OA movement needs to lobby for access to all research outputs, and that there is a need to ensure that RCUK's policy does not exclude this significant portion of the scholarly literature. The contents of our members' Open Access repositories clearly demonstrate the richness, value and readership of such scholarly works.
Creative Commons
The CC licence is a potentially contentious issue [p2] and one that UKCoRR believes may create more problems than it solves.
The current model of Green OA (i.e. self-archiving in an IR) as opposed to Gold (i.e. author-institution pays), is predicated on a pragmatic negotiation of copyright with academic publishers and, along with high profile initiatives like SHERPA RoMEO, has encouraged growth of the number of RoMEO green journals which allow self archiving, and therefore in the potential number of OA papers that can be self-archived in repositories. UKCoRR is concerned that the new policy will potentially impact on this strategy, and on repositories which will have to assert CC-BY on relevant papers after a maximum embargo period of 6 months.
It is not clear what effect the policy may have on journals defined as 'green' by SHERPA RoMEO and on the application of embargoes. Journals may choose to become RCUK-compliant, to remain RoMEO green but not compliant, or to reject green and compliance altogether with individual publishers' policy likely to be informed by the potential loss of revenue resulting from a universal 6 month embargo and by the extent to which other funders will follow RCUK's lead on CC-BY.
HE institutions are increasingly adopting policies on OA and self-archiving in their repositories and UKCoRR has some concerns that the policy should more explicitly consider implications to this Green route to Open Access
Limitation on Publication Destination
While UKCoRR acknowledges the value of this part of the policy, we note that it is likely to cause anxiety among academic stakeholders unless backed up by clear support mechanisms. If our members' author stakeholders are made to feel more constrained on their choice of where to publish [p3] it could generate an adverse perception and consequent resistance towards the implementation of Open Access policies within their organisation; already an issue that many of our members encounter in the course of their work. However, we look forward with interest to the impact this may have on those publishers who to date have been reluctant to embrace more Open Access compliant author copyright licence agreements.
Impact on Publisher Policy
The policy would require a significant change in many publishers' policies, and would limit the choice of journals to those that are recognised as compliant. Sources of funding for Open Access compliance will therefore become a more pressing issue across many institutions, where few currently have resources set aside to cope with such moves [p5]. We would encourage RCUK to be more proactive in ensuring that all researchers, especially PIs, and research administrators are made fully aware that this is part of the indirect costs allocated within the grant application and award. Clarity on RCUK's stance in this regard would be especially welcomed by our membership.
Access to Data Outputs
The final paragraph in section 8 says "The underlying research materials do not necessarily have to be made Open Access" [p6]. While UKCoRR understands that mandating open data publication is out of the scope of this policy, we would welcome an approach that encourages this. There is an opportunity here to get more open data for use and reuse by the research community while respecting the normal provisos about commercial sensitivity, patient confidentiality etc.
Compliance Mechanisms
Our membership would also be interested in knowing more about how the "mechanisms to help ensure compliance" will operate [p6]. Given the time scales and workloads already placed upon our members, greater clarity in this regard and at the earliest opportunity will make such mechanisms more practicable for us to implement.
OA Fields and ROS
Given the timing of this, we would also query the lack of proper OA fields built in to the recently launched Research Outcomes System (ROS). There are fields for SHERPA/RoMEO data and preprint/postprint, but nothing to clarify if an OA version actually exists. While we are aware of discussions ongoing with the JISC that UKCoRR has also been party to, we would welcome this being highlighted in the policy.
Final Comments
Overall, as strong advocates of the cultural, economic and intellectual benefits of Open Access to the UK's unique research outputs UKCoRR keenly supports this bold policy.
We welcome any opportunity to enter into a dialogue with the RCUK as to how this could be cascaded, both to our membership and our academic stakeholders.


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This page documents data for Gu & Yu (1976), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.
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Gu & Yu. 1976. Lamell. Foss. China: .
Fulpioides Gu & Yu, 1976 Gu & Yu, 1976, Lamell. Foss. China: 376.
Margaritifera antiqua Gu & Yu, 1976 Gu & Yu, 1976, Lamell. Foss. China: ??.
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