Archive for December 27th, 2007
Good OA Cheer for the New Year
Congratulations to all the open access activists and to everyone who contacted their congressional representatives in support of the NIH’s plan to archive published research funded by NIH grants. We won! As one commenter at a lively thread over at Slashdot said, ever so wisely, “All your research are belong to allofus.”
Posted: 27 December, 2007 in Open Access.
Tags: National_Institutes_of_Health
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Reflections on Leadership
In 1979, Wayne A. Wiegand assembled an advisory board and asked them to identify the most prominent academic library leaders for the previous half-century. They eventually agreed on fifteen librarians, whose biographies were published in 1983 as a chapbook entitled Leaders in American Academic Librarianship: 1925-1975. The book serves as a great reminder that issues [...]
Posted: 27 December, 2007 in Administration/Leadership.
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