Archive for 'Open Access'
The education vs. indoctrination debate
I’m the RSS reader type who subscribes to a little bit of everything and then doesn’t really pay attention to which is which when skimming through the feeds (let’s just say “detail oriented” doesn’t go on my resume). Yet somehow in the melee of my reader, the Digital Reference blog keeps getting my attention. It’s [...]
Posted by Kim Leeder on May 15th, 2008 under Higher Education, Information Ethics, Open Access.
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Free Culture Clash
Libraries think it makes sense to digitize theses and dissertations and have them web-searchable rather than have to rely on UMI publishing them. Having a few print copies on the shelf means hardly anyone will find that scholarship, and why would anyone go to the trouble to write all that if they don’t want it [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on March 13th, 2008 under Copyright, Open Access.
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Academic Librarianship’s Future Strengths?
In my first job after college, as a manager at a small nonprofit, I was taught to use the euphemism “future strengths.” For instance, when I conducted performance reviews, my colleagues would often mention punctuality as one of their future strengths. We also used dozens of other terms that ate at my newly minted English-major [...]
Posted by Brett Bonfield on February 29th, 2008 under Just Thinking, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues.
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Open Access to History @ Columbia UP
Who knew? Columbia made a previously subscription-only history book project open access. Maybe Harvard’s news, and the press it generated, led them to tell us about it. From today’s Chron (subscription required, no pun intended):
Without much fanfare, Columbia University Press has radically restructured Gutenberg-e, its high-profile experiment with digital history monographs, from a subscription-only series [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 26th, 2008 under Books, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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A Scholar’s Regrets
Danah Boyd is happy to be part of a special issue of Convergence, a journal devoted to new media technologies. But she’s sad that the only people who can read it will be those who subscribe (or whose libraries subscribe - she notes that the institutional subscription is over $500 a year.) Certainly, there’s some [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 13th, 2008 under Open Access.
Comments: 2