Articles of interest
I'm passing
along two articles of mild interest which have appeared in the past
few days:
The first
article in the New York Times is about an upcoming vote by Harvard
faculty to distribute their scholarship online. The high cost of
printing art history journals is specifically mentioned. But perhaps
Harvard is sui generis...
"At
Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on the Web" by Patricia
Cohen, New York Times, Feb. 12, 2008:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books
The second
article appearing in Newsweek reviews current technology which would
allow low-cost personal scanning ("ripping") of books (still
seems pretty far fetched but as is pointed out, "Napster happened
in a snap.")
"Rip
This Book? Not Yet." by Steven Levy, Newsweek, Feb. 18, 2008:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/109580
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