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Your Questions Answered on open access

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageOpen access allows users to download, copy, print and distribute works, without the need to ask for permission or to pay.Meredith Kahn/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Open access means making peer reviewed works freely available in digital form, so that anyone with internet access can use them, without financial, legal or technical barriers. It allows users to...

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Reporters or players? What is the media's role in leadership struggles?

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imageLeadership struggles are between ostensible allies.AAP/Sam Mooy

When we think of news coverage of politics, we tend to think of the most frequent conflict in the news: that between the major political parties. In the two-sided contest to form government, the conflict is zero-sum, winner-takes-all and decided by public opinion. It is zero-sum in...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on infrastructure reforms

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University of Canberra professorial fellow Michelle Grattan and senior lecturer Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics, including the reforms Joe Hockey was unable to implement as treasurer and his likely new role as the Australian ambassador to the US. The discussion also turns to explore how Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull might introduce...

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  1. Science is best when the data is an open book
  2. #AskAnExpert about road safety – a Twitter Q A
  3. Grattan on Friday: The contrasting tales of Joe Hockey and Julie Bishop.
  4. Why HuffPo and other 'new' media journalists are choosing unions
  5. What is the secret to being good at maths?
  6. It's a battle of the hemispheres in the Rugby World Cup
  7. Qiu Xiaolong's Detective Chen novels give clues to unravel the mysteries of China
  8. From farm to pharmacy: regulating medicinal cannabis in Australia
  9. Confused about your private health insurance coverage? You're not alone
  10. Watch out, Australia: a red-hot summer means blue-green algae
  11. The Experiment is a musical monodrama to love, hate, or both
  12. Tax reform aside, there's no real case to kill off dividend imputation
  13. Why the 'cashless welfare card' trial will leave us none the wiser
  14. How a small office in Jamaica might be our best hope for regulating deep sea mining
  15. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – a sound fetishist's guide to the trailer and beyond
  16. Ipsos gives Turnbull a massive approval rating
  17. The universe really is weird: a landmark quantum experiment has finally proved it so
  18. More technology doesn’t mean less inequality
  19. “Humanism”, an idol of the marketplace?
  20. Farewell to Lomborg – what did the episode teach us?
  21. Better care and communication can cut stillbirth rates and avoid unnecessary trauma
  22. Seven myths about dyslexia put to rest
  23. Family tax benefit savings trimmed, but families with teenagers hit hardest
  24. Today's smart machines owe much to Australia's first computer
  25. A dissenting economist on GST: we should charge more on beer and smokes
  26. Jules Wright, courageous Australian theatre director, died earlier this year – did you know?
  27. Here's why Australians are missing out on the HIV prevention pill
  28. Huge fires are burning northern Australia every year: it's time to get them under control
  29. The long-term future of Australian coal is drying up
  30. The Intern and Rethinking Intimate Friendships
  31. As companies continue to steal private data, technical solutions may be the answer
  32. Turnbull tests the water on same-sex marriage
  33. Credit card surcharging: what is it and how is it changing?
  34. Politics podcast: Sarah Hanson-Young on the plight of 'Abyan'
  35. Serial commenting, serial killing: some notes on Web 2.0 and Kevin Williamson’s The Following
  36. Japan's whaling gambit shows it's time to strengthen the rule of science in law
  37. Medications pregnant women should take, avoid, and think about
  38. The Conversation heads to the Paris climate talks
  39. The security benefits of warrantless surveillance are as clear as mud
  40. Hockey calls for swingeing economic reform in farewell speech
  41. Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes
  42. PM's Prize for Science for revealing nature's solar power
  43. Wealth bubble: PM's Prize for Innovation goes to Aussie invention worth billions
  44. Spoiler alert: old-man-power trumps a successful young woman in The Intern
  45. The 'fatal five' causes of road trauma: who’s in control?
  46. Why Labor should come to the party on the competition review
  47. Why are Australian livestock still turning up in places where they are treated cruelly?
  48. Children in care are falling behind in literacy and numeracy – but the problem is far bigger than that
  49. Imported factoids should have no place in Australia's gun control debates
  50. Banning under twos from screens has little basis in evidence

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