medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hi all -- an article in today's *Guardian* that could be of interest:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2011534,00.html
George
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George FERZOCO
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On 13 Feb 2007, at 07:27, Peter Binkley wrote:
> A good place to start is Wikipedia's extensive article on Open
> Access: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access . It covers the
> topic well and is thoroughly documented.
>
> Peter
>
> Paul Chandler wrote:
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>> culture
>> I have a sense that the historical profession, particularly in the
>> English-speaking world, is not as concerned as are scientists
>> about "gated" access to scholarly research publications and the
>> corresponding growth of open access initiatives.
>> Roy Rosenzweig's "Should Historical Scholarship Be Free?" in the
>> AHA Perspectives two years ago was very striking to me < http://
>> www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2005/0504/0504vic1.cfm >,
>> but as far as I know it has been little discussed, and I feel a
>> bit ill-informed about all the issues. Perhaps someone more expert
>> might tell us if we should be thinking more about such matters and
>> what kind of responses are in our best interests in the long term
>> (if this is not too unmedieval or irreligious).
>> Other documents which seem of interest are the Budapest Initiative:
>> http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml <http://
>> www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml>
>> and the Berlin Declaration:
>> http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
>> -- Paul Chandler
>> On 08/02/07, DAVID PETTS < [log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion
>> and culture
>> As someone who recently directed people to a JSTOR article
>> that
>> I thought was freely available, this thread made me go back and
>> check and I've realised that it is not accessible without an
>> Athens
>> password (for which I apologise). However, its worth noting that
>> JSTOR to provide free access to a large number of useful journals
>> without the need for an institutional affiliation. You can see
>> the
>> list here: http://www.jstor.org/about/individual.html
>> Best wishes,
>> David
>> David Petts
>> Dept. of Archaeology and History
>> University of Chester
>> Chester
>> Cheshire
>> UK
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