Historical Archives
Friday’s Chronicle posted this article suggesting that web sites should be reviewed and certified by scholarly organizations so that they can be “counted” by tenure and promotion committees. I was bristling as I read this, thinking that Olson missed the point of electronic scholarship entirely. And, as it turns out, Barbara Fister at ARClog expressed…
This article from the Chronicle is one of the many reasons I’m a proponent of Open Access. Patterson explains how not having access to digital databases has made her research more difficult. She also explains how some researchers simply abandon certain areas because access to materials that would support those areas are non-existent at their…
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