- steve carufel /en/ Tue, 29 May 2018 11:19:17 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 /wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-IMG_0391-1-32x32.jpg - steve carufel /en/ 32 32 Scientific journals are (still) getting (more) expensive (than ever) – but the UK has an opportunity to make a statement /scientific-scholarly-journals-uk/ /scientific-scholarly-journals-uk/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 11:19:17 +0000 /?p=385 For quite a while now I have been submitting and managing Freedom of Information requests to more than a hundred universities in the United Kingdom. While the issue around ever-skyrocketing costs of scholarly journals subscriptions isn’t news, I wanted to see whether, since the topic went in the mainstream, the awareness around it had any… Continue reading Scientific journals are (still) getting (more) expensive (than ever) – but the UK has an opportunity to make a statement

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]]> /scientific-scholarly-journals-uk/feed/ 0 385 Birmingham City Council’s anti-obesity funding plunges 92% /obesity/ /obesity/#respond Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:33:29 +0000 /?p=244 Spending by Birmingham City Council on countering obesity has plummeted in the last 12 months, according to data collected by The Bureau Local and shared with Birmingham Eastside. The figures reveal that funding to tackle obesity in adults dropped by 92% since 2013/2014 — from more than £5.6 million to less than half a million.… Continue reading Birmingham City Council’s anti-obesity funding plunges 92%

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