Tag Archives: open access
Knowledge manufacture at the IOE
Intellectuals like to see themselves as constructors or producers of knowledge – artists and academics, too, make things! Indeed, the Institute of Education, and all of UCL, are huge construction, manufacturing, and storage sites, by which I do not mean … Continue reading
The spooky BOOC : books with talking heads and books on white walls
When I was little, a book was a book. It did not have buttons to press to produce squeaky sounds or sacks of felt puppets to re-enact the story. It did not give links to online videos or interactive maps … Continue reading
The Ranking of World Repositories: DERA and SSRN
I’ve always been sceptical about league tables and my reaction to rankings of this sort is almost always in direct proportion to where the organisation I am working in is placed. (In the case of the University World Rankings, the … Continue reading
DERA article published in ALISS Quarterly
We have had a lot of interest from the library community in the setting up of our Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA). In July, Bernard published an article in July’s issue of Ariadne from a largely technical standpoint. I have … Continue reading
Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers
The aim is to broaden the reach and impact of Princeton’s research output. They have adopted a new open access policy which new gives the university the “nonexclusive right to make available copies of scholarly articles written by its faculty, unless … Continue reading