Comments on: Open access threatens national security http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272 pragmatism over zeal Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:47:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amazing arguments at Owl’s Opinions http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272/comment-page-1#comment-11485 Amazing arguments at Owl’s Opinions Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:03:09 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272#comment-11485 [...] I’ve read lots of ignorant positions on open/free content but this one presented at the OpenContent.org blog and belonging to a head figure of the Association of American Publishers shades everything previous. [...] [...] I’ve read lots of ignorant positions on open/free content but this one presented at the OpenContent.org blog and belonging to a head figure of the Association of American Publishers shades everything previous. [...]

]]> By: Penn State World Campus » Blog Archive » Open access in higher education http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272/comment-page-1#comment-10470 Penn State World Campus » Blog Archive » Open access in higher education Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:42:04 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272#comment-10470 [...] [this is cut-n-pasted from a blog called iterating toward openness] [...] [...] [this is cut-n-pasted from a blog called iterating toward openness] [...]

]]> By: Suzanne Robertshaw http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272/comment-page-1#comment-10200 Suzanne Robertshaw Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:44:59 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272#comment-10200 Rollins College (small liberal arts college outside Orlando, FL where my husband, professor of economics, and I, tutor coordinator, have worked for twenty years) is apparently one of those supporting legislation to support open access. Reported in our online weekly newsletter today: "Rollins Students May Have More Access to Federal Research President Lewis Duncan, along with 52 other liberal arts college presidents, recently signed a letter in favor of the Federal Public Research Access Act. The act is an effort to decrease the cost of scholarly journal subscriptions by calling for free, public access to the published results of federal research. If the bill is passed, federal organizations that spend $100 million or more on research will be expected to provide open access to their results within six months of their original publication. Director of the Olin Library Jonathan Miller hopes that the Federal Public Research Act will help make peer-reviewed information accessible to anyone. Jonathan points out that the primary problem for academic institutions is cost, limiting the number of scholarly subscriptions to which students have access through college libraries. “Subscription costs have increased 10 percent every year, but library budgets do not,� Jonathan said. Jonathan believes that the open-access movement will permit more access to federally funded research. As a result, students at Rollins College will be able to obtain the latest information necessary to complete research assignments. With the Federal Public Research Access Act, Jonathan anticipates that librarians will be more likely to locate articles that students need without the restrictions of costly scholarly subscriptions. “If they’re going to be well-prepared, well-educated students, they’re going to need this information,� Jonathan said." http://www.rollins.edu/pr/rtown.shtml (Sept. 18, 2006 issue) Cost- and bottom-line driven advocacy. That works as support for me, along with the principle of it all. Open access. Equality of opportunity. Rollins College (small liberal arts college outside Orlando, FL where my husband, professor of economics, and I, tutor coordinator, have worked for twenty years) is apparently one of those supporting legislation to support open access.

Reported in our online weekly newsletter today:

“Rollins Students May Have More Access to Federal Research

President Lewis Duncan, along with 52 other liberal arts college presidents, recently signed a letter in favor of the Federal Public Research Access Act. The act is an effort to decrease the cost of scholarly journal subscriptions by calling for free, public access to the published results of federal research. If the bill is passed, federal organizations that spend $100 million or more on research will be expected to provide open access to their results within six months of their original publication.

Director of the Olin Library Jonathan Miller hopes that the Federal Public Research Act will help make peer-reviewed information accessible to anyone. Jonathan points out that the primary problem for academic institutions is cost, limiting the number of scholarly subscriptions to which students have access through college libraries. “Subscription costs have increased 10 percent every year, but library budgets do not,� Jonathan said.

Jonathan believes that the open-access movement will permit more access to federally funded research. As a result, students at Rollins College will be able to obtain the latest information necessary to complete research assignments. With the Federal Public Research Access Act, Jonathan anticipates that librarians will be more likely to locate articles that students need without the restrictions of costly scholarly subscriptions. “If they’re going to be well-prepared, well-educated students, they’re going to need this information,â€? Jonathan said.”

http://www.rollins.edu/pr/rtown.shtml (Sept. 18, 2006 issue)

Cost- and bottom-line driven advocacy. That works as support for me, along with the principle of it all. Open access. Equality of opportunity.

]]> By: Brooke http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272/comment-page-1#comment-7780 Brooke Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:11:12 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/272#comment-7780 It's amazing how greed can cloud logic sometimes. What I saw that was heartening, though, was the work being done by Oberlin to organize liberal arts schools to back the bill, and the 25 major research universities that have also written a letter in support of it. I think I'll dash off a letter of support to my congressmen about it. It’s amazing how greed can cloud logic sometimes. What I saw that was heartening, though, was the work being done by Oberlin to organize liberal arts schools to back the bill, and the 25 major research universities that have also written a letter in support of it. I think I’ll dash off a letter of support to my congressmen about it.

]]>