- Cliff Lynch on institutional repositories. I don't agree with quite all of it (institutional repositories are here to stay? really? in this budget environment? sez who?), but an hour with Cliff Lynch is always an hour well spent, and I'm completely and unabashedly with him on his cautions about IRs.
- Margaret Dayhoff, a founder of the field of bioinformatics. (Hat tip to blogger Mary.)
- Researchers love their disciplines, not their institutions: open-access repositories and the arts. (What does that mean for institution-based e-research efforts?)
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Unconnected incidents are making me ponder questions of sustainability. I don't have any answers, but I can at least unburden myself of some frustrations!
Wouldn't that be great?
On-line Open Access "journals" and e-text repositories are very nice, but archaeology doesn't have any big or commonly used ones yet. This may be about to change with the Italian site Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology.
I interrupt your regularly-scheduled blog to ask for some help... comments closed on this post so that you'll comment where it'll do the most good.
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