Archive for March 13th, 2006
Any Volunteers? No? Then . . .
The NIH has tried to increase public access to publicly-funded research through a system of depositing drafts of published research, a compromise reached when publishers baulked at a required open access system. Now that the Publishing Research Consortium has had a chance to analyze the results, how has it been going?
In a word: it’s [...]
Posted: 13 March, 2006 in Scholarly Communications.
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The Myth Of LIS Grad As Finished Product
One of the most frequent complaints about the job LIS education programs are doing is their inability to produce graduates that are workplace ready. That would be a great trick, but can any professional school meet that challenge? In an opinion piece written for the Chronicle of Higher Education (March 10 issue) Arthur Levine, President [...]
Posted: 13 March, 2006 in Professional Development, Top Issues, Worth Reading.
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