Colleagues from John Jay College posted these recommendations to our CUNY libraries listserv today, and they’re well worth a read for those interested in open access publishing. Note that may of us likely receive the NEA Higher Education Journal in paper at home.
“Larry Sullivan pointed out the following two excellent articles on the need for open access models to liberate libraries from the wildly inflating costs charged by publishers:
In The New York Review of Books, Dec. 23, 2010
The Library: Three Jeremiads by Robert Darnton
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads/
Fister, Barbara. Liberating Knowledge: A Librarian’s Manifesto for Change. Thought & Action: The NEA Higher Education Journal. Fall 2010, p.83-90. (This should be available online at the NEA website, but doesn’t seem to be yet. http://www.nea.org/home/1821.htm )
Bonnie
Bonnie R. Nelson
Professor and Associate Librarian for Information Systems
Lloyd Sealy Library
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY”