Professor Alistair Black is a recipient of the 2008 Library History Essay Prize awarded annually by the Library and Information History Group, a special interest group within the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals, the leading professional organization for information professionals in the United Kingdom. His winning article is titled: "'Arsenals of Scientific and Technical Information': Public Technical Libraries in Britain During and Immediately after World War I" and was published in the Winter 2007 issue of Library Trends.
A new policy of the American Anthropological Association is called "a groundbreaking move” providing “greater access for the global social science and anthropological communities to 86 years of classic, historic research articles.” The problem, critics say, is that the emphasis should have been on the word “historic,” because those 86 years worth of articles aren’t the most recent 86 years. Rather the association will apply its new policy for its flagship journal, American Anthropologist, only 35 years after material was published. The association has created open access to the scholarship of the ’50s and ’60s. Patricia Kay Galloway, an associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, has previously served on anthropology association committees on digital publishing but left because of disputes over her support for open access. She said that the idea that open access involves a 35-year delay is “just crap.” From Inside Higher Ed.
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