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Friday, March 05, 2004

CIC report on scholarly communication

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Report of the CIC Summit on Scholarly Communication in the Humanities and Social Sciences, CIC, December 2, 2003. While the report is dated December 2003, it was released in February 2004. The CIC consists of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago. In this analysis of scholarly communication, the focus is on books and gives only secondary attention journals, e.g. as rising journal costs lead libraries to cut into their book budgets. Two speakers, John Unsworth (p. 6) and Paul Courant (p. 7), called for free online access, apparently to books as well as journals. (PS: Thanks to Colin Steele.)