medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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]
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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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