One year ago today Yvonne & I were in Croatia, for vacation & the LIDA conference. This year, Gary & I have sent Ron Brown to LIDA. Or I should say, Gary is sending Ron, in the sense that he’s paying for it. I just helped Gary select who gets to go. Ron will be going to Osijek first, & traveling with the conference organizers & students to Dubrovnik. I’m.. Read More
NIH Open Access policy, not so much
NIH Has Little to Celebrate on 1st Anniversary of Its Open-Access Policy, but Changes May Be on Way, from the Chronicle The public-access policy of the National Institutes of Health marked its first anniversary last week, and all involved in the debate agree that it has failed to create free online access to the biomedical literature. Not to say I told you so, but I told you so. Well, I.. Read More
I’m never going to live this one down
Both Yvonne & I submitted proposals to the Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, in Charlottesville VA, September 25-27. In a remarkably speedy turnaround, they got notices back today, after only about 3 weeks. Well, Yvonne got accepted and I got rejected. Harsh.
OCLC + RLG
RLG Proposal to Combine with OCLC–Frequently Asked Questions What’s the proposal? RLG‘s Board of Directors and OCLC‘s Board of Trustees have recommended that RLG be combined with OCLC, effective July 1, 2006. The RLG Board is asking the RLG membership to vote on and affirm this decision. How does the combining of RLG and OCLC further the two organizations’ goals? As RLG and OCLC have grown, a significant overlap has.. Read More
Congress vs. the Association of American Publishers?
Bill Seeks Access to Tax-Funded Research, from the WaPo A smoldering debate over whether taxpayers should have free access to the results of federally financed research intensified yesterday with the introduction of Senate legislation that would mandate that the information be posted on the Internet. The legislation, which would demand that most recipients of federal grants make their findings available free on the Web within six months after they are.. Read More