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A question – should publishers monitor contributors by their nationality / ethnicity / gender / disability / sexual orientation / age / etc? Most grant funding applications now require minority monitoring in some format, so supply of the information may …
Legal Deposit has been part of English law since 1662. It means that publishers, including self-published authors, need to provide a copy of every work they publish in the UK to the British Library and fo This legal deposit makes …
Any original content you create is protected by copyright in the UK. It is the responsibility of authors and their publishers to protect, police and enforce their intellectual property. Copyright in the UK is automatic. You do not need to …
Many people may think that data could not be further removed from the written word. As a publishing novice I was one of these people. However, metadata could not be more important to author and publisher alike. Metadata is the …