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
and the Berlin Declaration:
http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
-- Paul Chandler
On 08/02/07, DAVID PETTS < [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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