Blogs

Interesting Book Series from Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Quite an interesting list of books, sent to me from Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/PSHR.html

Open Access for Research and Researchers

"Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments.

700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently

If they could (according to a worldwide Galluip poll), about 700 million adults worldwide -- more than the entire adult population of North America and South America combined -- would like to move to another country permanently. The United States and Canada top the list of most desired destination countries.

If everyone who wanted to move to Canada actually did, the country's population would grow by 170%.

 

Makala