Comments on: The Song of the Open Access Road http://acrlog.org/2008/05/07/the-song-of-the-open-access-road/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marc Meola http://acrlog.org/2008/05/07/the-song-of-the-open-access-road/comment-page-1/#comment-78786 Marc Meola Wed, 07 May 2008 20:30:41 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=800#comment-78786 Harvard Law just voted for OA. Are we at a tipping point? http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/05/07_openaccess.php Harvard Law just voted for OA. Are we at a tipping point?
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/05/07_openaccess.php

]]> By: Steve Lawson http://acrlog.org/2008/05/07/the-song-of-the-open-access-road/comment-page-1/#comment-78785 Steve Lawson Wed, 07 May 2008 20:12:34 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=800#comment-78785 Great post. But about those preprints... >This means you can not only read them yourself, you can blog about them, link to them, send them to people who you think may be interested - in short, they can be read and circulated, and that’s good for the field. That is good, until the issue is published and the preprints disappear and your links break for six months during the embargo period. Why not just take this journal gold OA? Great post. But about those preprints…

>This means you can not only read them yourself, you can blog about them, link to them, send them to people who you think may be interested – in short, they can be read and circulated, and that’s good for the field.

That is good, until the issue is published and the preprints disappear and your links break for six months during the embargo period.

Why not just take this journal gold OA?

]]> By: John Ober http://acrlog.org/2008/05/07/the-song-of-the-open-access-road/comment-page-1/#comment-78777 John Ober Wed, 07 May 2008 18:32:49 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=800#comment-78777 Re: the Sparky awards, when the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee (which I co-chair) asked the ACRL board to approve being a co-sponsor, we hoped that librarians would use this contest as a tool for talking with students and faculty about information use and policy in general, and access issues in specific, thereby approaching information fluency in a creative way. So we encourage you to talk now with instructors in appropriate departments about ways they could use this contest next fall as a fun and thought-provoking class assignment. By the way, there will soon be an educator's guide available on the Sparky award website (http://www.sparkyawards.org). Re: the Sparky awards, when the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee (which I co-chair) asked the ACRL board to approve being a co-sponsor, we hoped that librarians would use this contest as a tool for talking with students and faculty about information use and policy in general, and access issues in specific, thereby approaching information fluency in a creative way. So we encourage you to talk now with instructors in appropriate departments about ways they could use this contest next fall as a fun and thought-provoking class assignment. By the way, there will soon be an educator’s guide available on the Sparky award website (http://www.sparkyawards.org).

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