Professional Reading Shelf
Open Access
Source: Inside Higher Ed
‘The Access Principle’
“Paying for information? In print? That’s a model that’s just so early 20th century, according to The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, published last week by MIT Press. The book reviews the various models to bring the dissemination of knowledge online and to make it free, and along the way, the book criticizes plenty of publishing practices, copyright interpretations and scholarly traditions. John Willinsky, professor of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia, has devoted much of his scholarship to the ideas behind the book. Among other things, he directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is financed by the Canadian government to promote the free exchange of information. Willinsky responded to questions about the themes of his book.”
–
Wikipedia
Source: St. Petersburg Times
When Wikipedians run amok on orderly online encyclopedia
“What’s the difference between an expert and an enthusiast? On Wikipedia, both have equal weight in creating and maintaining the site.”
–
Libraries–Books–Ranking
Source: Library Journal
Library Best Sellers 2005
“It wasn’t all The Da Vinci Code in libraries this year. LJ’s fiction list shows how responsive librarians are to patron demand. Pop titles pop right away, ride the list up, and most often ride back down to get replaced by the next big thing. But library book clubs and insightful readers’ advisory keep many books alive well past their first printings. While John Grisham’s The Broker was hot, it barely outpaced not only Dan Brown’s Da Vinci but Khaled Hosseini’s reading club sensation The Kite Runner. James Patterson ruled this year’s borrowed fiction, however, with four titles making the top 20.”

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.