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 <
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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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