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Why I’m Not In The Mood To Celebrate Open Access Week
It’s Open Access Week, a time to “present the individual and collective benefits of free online access to research”. It’s a time to celebrate the many accomplishments and progress made on the scholarly communications front. And some of those accomplishments are indeed significant: SPARC; OA resolutions at a growing number of institutions; NIH policy requiring [...]
Posted: 18 October, 2010 in Scholarly Communications.
Tags: Open Access, Scholarly Communications
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Digital Scholarship Reconsidered
In 1990 Ernest Boyer made an important contribution to the literature of higher education by authoring the book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Boyer’s material was based on the results of a 1989 survey of faculty across the nation sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Boyer said we must “…break [...]
Posted: 19 November, 2008 in Scholarly Communications.
Tags: digital_scholarly_resources, Scholarly Communications, scholarly_resources
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