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How Are Open Access And MOOCS Disrupting The Academic Community In Different Ways?

Press Release | SAGE Open | October 23, 2013

New article in SAGE Open compares and contrasts the disruptive tensions of open-access publishing with MOOCs Read More »

Open Access Boosts Journal Availabilty

Alli Brady | The Dartmouth | October 25, 2013

Over the past several weeks, Baker-Berry Library has hosted a variety of events aimed at informing students and faculty about the open access movement, a national campaign to make scholarship freely accessible worldwide. The events culminated in Open Access Week, which concludes Friday. Read More »

The Copyright Rule We Need To Repeal If We Want To Preserve Our Cultural Heritage

Benj Edwards | The Atlantic | March 15, 2013

The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists criminals if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations. Read More »

Transcribing Manuscripts With Crowdsourcing

Isaac M. Alderman | Bible Junkies | October 16, 2013

Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the power of crowdsourcing, or getting lots of people to each do a little bit of work.  Scientists in particular have utilized this to get people to go through huge amounts of data.  This approach has also been used in the humanities, in the collection of data for local histories, for example. Read More »