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See the copy of the press release where Nature, a division of Macmillan Publishers, has decided to encourage authors to post versions of their papers online, in university-run institutional repositories. They do request authors to post six months after publication, but it is a significant step nonetheless. This is a kind of retroactive endorsement of the US National Institute of Health's proposed policy of requiring online access for publically-funded research results.

Tony Reid's piece on the Aceh Situation appeared in the op-ed section of today's Straits Times. We link here to a copy sent to the H-SEASIA online discussion group.

Tony has recently published An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra under the Singapore University Press imprint.

For information on tsunami relief efforts, please see Paul's note sent to members of the H-SEASIA mailing list.