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"Hot Topic of the Week"
Editor’s Note: As you may be aware, our web host suffered a recent malware attack and we are still in the process of playing catch up. This “Hot Topic” column was submitted on July 6 and was delayed in publication due to ongoing problems. We’re finally in the clear and ready to move on, thank [...]
Read More... →Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
So we understand there’s no free lunch with open access publishing. So who pays, how do they pay, and who benefits? I’ve noticed a few examples this week.
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard introduces us to PeerJ, an open access, peer-reviewed, biomedical journal that [...]
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In case you missed it, the latest on the Google Books lawsuit is that it has been certified as a class action suit. Meredith Schwartz has the story in Library Journal, and Karen Coyle weighs in from Coyle’s InFormation with a brief rundown of [...]
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Remember those dizzying days of the growing Web? I was teaching in Albania from 1994 to 1996. Before I left the US, I saw the Internet once. A friend showed me something called a whale server in a computer lab. Meh. When I [...]
Read More... →Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
Oh hi! Two quick hits this week…
If you haven’t already found the petition to President Obama to “require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research,” which is getting lots of attention around the Interwebs, it’s over here. Bonus petition [...]
Read More... →Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
The story covered in Tom Gilson’s newsflash from last Saturday has remained the hot topic this week. In case you haven’t heard, the copyright case brought by Cambridge, Oxford, and Sage against Georgia State University regarding e-reserves has been decided. The conventional wisdom is that the libraries are [...]
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