“I think that the open access activists will win out.”
— Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in World wide web creator sees open access future for academic publishing (via arlpolicynotes)

(via arlpolicynotes)

Jan. 29 2013
Via phys.org
#open access #publishing #academia
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“Beginning in fall 2013, all incoming students will be required to purchase an iPad mini, which will come loaded with the student’s summer reading and core curriculum texts, created by Lynn faculty. Priced at $475, the iPad mini will cost half as much as students were paying for print versions of their course readers, and they will get to keep the device.”
— Lynn University to require all new students to buy iPads | Inside Higher Ed
Jan. 15 2013
Via insidehighered.com
#academia #ebooks
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“Academia also needs to cut back on low-quality graduate programs. Too many universities tried to become research institutions during the lost decade, adding graduate programs and research faculty, often using tuition dollars to finance their expansions. Today, too many of these programs remain far short of their goals, and their ambitions have come at a great cost to their core mission of educating undergraduates (as well as producing many dropouts and unemployed Ph.D.’s).”
— Fixing College Through Lower Costs and Better Technology - NYTimes.com
Jun. 29 2012
Via The New York Times
#academia

With a Wonder and a Wild Desire: Thoughts after the Harvard Libraries Twitter Panic ➔

This is an excellent post on the Harvard Library mess from withawonder:

Maybe the Twitterverse overreacted to the town hall meetings concerning the next step in the Harvard restructuring project. After all, “It is inaccurate to say that all library staff will need to reapply for their positions,” according to a statement made to Library Journal by Kira Poplowski,…

Jan. 20 2012
Via withawonder
#harvard #academia #libraries #hlth
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What’s happening at Harvard? « Feral Librarian ➔

Chris took the time to sift through the morass of information coming from #hlth yesterday. Here is the result.

Jan. 20 2012
#harvard #libraries #academia #hlth
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“Harvard has the second largest endowment in the world, second only to the funds held by the Vatican. If Harvard is unwilling to fund research librarians, you can bet most US libraries will quickly ditch their staff as well. This will impact your health, because it impacts medical research. This will impact the economy, because it will impact engineers needing information access. This will impact all areas of R&D in the United States, because much of the in-depth research assistance to those working on DARPA, NIH, and other government grants is - surprise!! - conducted on behalf of researchers by academic and research librarians.”
— E Keathley - Google - The nature of academic and research librarianship changed…
Jan. 19 2012
Via plus.google.com
#harvard #academia #libraries #hlth
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Tweets on #hlth (Harvard Library Town Hall) ➔

Massive reorganization and layoffs are imminent at Harvard Library. Follow #hlth (Harvard Library Town Hall) for more information as it comes.

Jan. 19 2012
#academia #libraries #harvard #hlth
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“So what would happen if say on April 1, 2012 academic libraries around the country turned off their proxies? Would the world notice or would people just think that the servers at Science were down for the afternoon?”
— WHAT IF? The Library Blackout Scenario - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education

(via infoneer-pulse)

Jan. 18 2012
Via chronicle.com
#libraries #protest #academia #databases #blackout #wikipedia #SOPA #PIPA
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Academic publishers have become the enemies of science ➔

ghardin:

This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists. Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the publishers.

Jan. 18 2012
Via ghardin
#publishing #research #academia #science
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“Research Libraries UK, which includes the Russell Group university libraries, as well as Britain’s national libraries and Trinity College Library Dublin, have told Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell that they will not renew their current deals when they expire at the end of this year unless the concession is made.”
— News: British Libraries Push Back - Inside Higher Ed
Sep. 6 2011
Via insidehighered.com
#libraries #publishers #uk #academia
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