Archive for 'Open Access'
Odds & Ends & Useful Bits
Consider this post to be a little bit like that drawer in the kitchen where you put things because you don’t know where else to put them: buttons, an odd shoelace, a dead battery that may need recycling, that gadget that sculpts cucumbers into fancy shapes that you got for Christmas fifteen years ago, that [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on June 5th, 2009 under Open Access, Technology Issues.
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How We’re Walking the OA Walk
The good news about open access keeps coming. Here at ACRLog, we’ve followed the trend since Harvard’s Arts and Sciences faculty adopted an open access resolution. Boston university and MIT have made similar resolutions. Individual scholars like Danah Boyd have committed to making their work available online by boycotting publications that don’t allow it. And [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on May 17th, 2009 under Open Access.
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Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back?
Editor’s Note: We welcome Maura Smale to the ACRLog blog team. Who is Maura Smale? If her name sounds familiar you may recall that she reported on her transition from archaeology to librarianship (with a sideline in online media) in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s online Careers column. Maura is the Information Literacy Librarian at [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on May 4th, 2009 under Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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Planning For Transformational Times
Did you know that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is currently in the process of renewing its strategic plan? I didn’t and despite regularly monitoring what’s happening at ARL this somehow evaded tracking on my radar screen. Since my own library is also currently engaged in a new planning process, I was pleased to [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 10th, 2009 under Open Access, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications, Top Issues.
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Are Books Next? About Time!
Jennifer Howard of The Chronicle reports on two heartening developments for academic publishing. One is that a company is providing easy-to-use software for managing digital content for university presses. It has been hard for UPs, which are in most cases very small enterprises with extremely tight budgets, to have the time and resources to develop [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 2nd, 2008 under Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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