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How to unite local initiatives for a more sustainable global future

While to reap the benefits of cosmolocal production strong political initiative and institutional innovations are needed, the momentum behind these post-capitalist pathways signifies a growing potential for meaningful change in our approach to production.

Armstrong forager promotes connection with the land in new book

How to Make and Maintain a SCOBY Hotel, scoby kombucha

Bologna's Newest Rights Center; London's 'Introduction to Rights' Seminar

At Bologna, the book fair plans a new television and film rights trading center. And in London, the 'Introduction to Rights' seminar precedes the trade show.

Journals need to provide better guidance for victims of plagiarism

Academics and researchers are ill prepared for what to do when they’re victims of publication misconduct, as Andrew Colman and colleagues found out when their article was plagiarised Plagiarism in published research articles is a threat to the integrity of the scientific record, and it seems to be on the increase boosted by the growing industry of predatory publishing.1 Open access journals of dubious quality exploit researchers by charging publication fees for rapid publication without rigorous scrutiny. Demand for easy and rapid publication of articles, in turn, arises from the increasingly competitive market in academic jobs and the demand this creates for researchers to publish journal articles. Plagiarism in predatory journals threatens to erode the integrity of higher degrees and CVs, and hence potentially the expertise of doctors, scientists, and other professionals, and of the academics who train them.23 We discovered in March 2022 that an article we’d published4 had been