Is the occasional follow-up link permitted? http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/08/22/some-university-of-california-oa-policy-confusions/ with a comment by Christopher Kelty (sometimes it _is_ good to skim the comments...).
Best, Sharon -- Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/ http://twitter.com/mtpo On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Quinn Dombrowski <[email protected]>wrote: > The RIT reading group will be meeting next Thursday (8/15) at noon in 200C > Warren to discuss open access scholarly publishing, including the recent > open access policy adopted by the University of California's Academic > Senate, open access initiatives on campus, and reactions to the American > Historical Association's support of embargos on dissertations in open > access repositories. > > For those unfamiliar with open access, this Wikipedia article provides a > basic overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access > > We will be discussing the following readings: > > 1) Chronicle article on UC Academic Senate announcement: > http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-Gains-Major/140851/ > > 2) Open access briefing paper prepared for internal use by IST-RIT (PDF > attached) > > 3) American Historical Association announcement: > http://blog.historians.org/2013/07/american-historical-association-statement-on-policies-regarding-the-embargoing-of-completed-history-phd-dissertations/ > and two blog responses: > A) > http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/07/24/etds-publishing-policy-based-on-fear/ > B) > http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/08/07/an-embargo-on-dissertations-will-not-solve-the-bigger-problem/ > > If you have any questions, please contact Quinn ([email protected]). > <http://twitter.com/mtpo>
