Worldwide Open Access Week

Just as Hurricane Sandy headed for New York, Worldwide Open Access Week was observed in the last week of October. The issues of publishing scholarly research and the prices of science journals always seem to feel a bit less pressing for us in the humanities fields, but they are vital issues for our time.  Here are two links to celebrate Open Access Week:

An “Open Access Explained” video from the great grad school comic blog Piled Higher and Deeper:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1533

Recently published “Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies” from the Harvard Open Access Project:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8005