We all admit that most information is born digital now, even if that's not how it's published.
Department chairs, even in History departments, accept the idea that quality and impact are what matter, not the quantity or the medium or the genre of publication
Open Access becomes the new political correctness among content-producers
Libraries insist on collecting digital content and universities support their effort to do so, out of an awareness that this is the key to a better world
University presses normalize digital information to lower the cost of collecting and preserving it, and they perform a number of other functions that lower the cost of scholarship and increase its impact
Provosts use subsidies, marketing, and university policy to encourage an ethos of open access among faculty, and to support open access principles as being in the best interest of all research organizations.
Provosts use subsidies, marketing, and university policy to encourage collaboration between libraries and presses
Unsworth is the Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/04/2003 08:30:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
