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The author talks about the use of hand drawing as a tool to express ideas quickly and effectively. He believes drawing as a professional function that requires swaggering in the face of incipient failure. He relates how hand-drawing became an essential tool in his professional career. He explains that pencil sketching is a way of committing a scene to paper which includes all the objects a person wants to accentuate.

The article reports that publishing giant Elsevier has denied to force academics in Great Britain to sign up to its other services in order to use the newly acquired Social Science Research Network (SSRN) repository. Topics include Elsevier's purchase of SSRN marks attempt to maintain control over publishing, and view of open access advocates, who have been highly critical of Elsevier that the publisher could crack down on the free dissemination of papers.