Harvard vs. Yale: Open Access Publishing
Earlier this week, Yale university student, Emmanuel Quartey, posted a video interview with the school’s librarian, Susan Gibbons, in which he asked her about open-access publishing. Her response was far more ambivalent than the Harvard faculty council’s. Though she noted that open-access journals are more accessible, she worried that asking younger faculty to publish in open-access (presumably less prestigious) journals could jeopardize their chances to attain tenure. In essence, prestige would stay put but tenure would move away from younger Yale professors. So, the library would continue to support both open and closed-access journals. You can read her full answer below or check out the video interview above
bell hooks Links
Here are the links to the books. Pass them along, reblog, and share the knowledge. I’ll keep them here for as long as I can.
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OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. The beta version of the service will contain publications of a selected number of academic publishers. The beta version will be made public early spring 2012.
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers will be invited to provide the metadata of their Open Access books to the DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, thereby helping scholars, students and the general public to discover the books. The directory will be open to all academic publishers and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these books are peer reviewed and published in Open Access. DOAB will determine requirements for publishers to qualify as Open Access academic book publishers and will maintain a certification procedure.
” Read more about the new Open Access Directory plans here!Just say no to Freegal
From the article: “Freegal is a product that offers libraries downloads of music, from Sony, as DRM-free MP3s (and DRM-free MP3s are awesome; let me be clear about that). Freegal Music is owned by Library Ideas, LLC.” This librarian has used the Freegal product at her library, and had some negative experiences and wanted to share them as well as outline how the product works since evidently Freegal is being shopped around at various libraries right now. Read this and take note. It sounds like a big waste of time, and apparently library users were not satisfied with it either.
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20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books
Here’s a full list:
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- Brave New World
- Frankenstein
- Heart of Darkness
- Romeo and Juliet
- MacBeth
- Hamlet
- Julius Caesar
- Pride & Prejudice
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Call of the Wild
- The Crucible
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- The Odyssey
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Red Badge of Courage
- The Scarlet Letter
- To Kill a Mockingbird
And here are three, for an example:
Animal Farm by George Orwell: Free eBook – Free Audio Book – Free Animated Movie
Orwell’s 1945 allegorical novella took aim at the corruption of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian rule. The short book, which almost never saw the light of day, appears on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: eText – Free Radio Dramatization (by Huxley himself) – Free Audio Book by Audible
Little known fact. Huxley once taught George Orwell French at Eton. And, years later his 1931 classic, Brave New World, is often mentioned in the same breath with 1984 when it comes to great books that describe a dystopian future.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Free ebook – Free Audio Book (MP3) – Radio Drama version (1938) – Movie
Mary Shelley started writing the great monster novel when she was only 18 and completed it when she was 21. The 1823 gothic novel is arguably one of your first works of science fiction.
Royal Society Journal Archive Made Permanently Free to Access
Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.
Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment. And nestling amongst these illustrious papers, readers willing to delve a little deeper into the archive may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution – including accounts of monstrous calves, grisly tales of students being struck by lightning, and early experiments on to how to cool drinks “without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Niter, and That at Any Time of the Year.”
Includes the world’s first peer-reviewed scientific journal! This is BIG, folks. Check it out.
Free Admission to the Morgan Library This Friday.
The Morgan Library will be offering free admission this Friday after 7 pm through 9 pm to check out its newest exhibitions, including one called Charles Dickens at 200.
A Study In Emerald
A PDF file of a short story that won the Hugo Award. If you know anything about Sherlock Holmes or H. P. Lovecraft, you may enjoy this. If you don’t, it’ll probably be incomprehensible twaddle.
Look! KIDS! Free stuff!
Just to point out that there are LOTS of short stories, audio files, videos and peculiar bits at Neilgaiman.com in the COOL STUFF department. You should go and explore. Share and Enjoy, as Douglas Adams said, in another context, about something totally different.
