August 2010

CIC Issues Report on Open Access Views and Practices

by Greg Grossmeier August 5, 2010

The CIC issued a final report on open access practices and attitudes at CIC universities. The scan involved over 220 librarians and over 2000 faculty.  The University of Michigan participated in the environmental scan. While not comprehensive, the report provides insight about attitudes about open access in different disciplines and faculty practices and attitudes.

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EBBA Mentioned in the Chronicle

by arifried August 5, 2010

The wonderful English Broadside Ballad Archive has been written up in Jennifer Howard’s “Archive Watch,” a feature of The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s “Wired Campus” blog.  She says it’s a cool archive for a hot summer day, and we couldn’t agree more.  Though we would like to point out that archival fun is appropriate to ...

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