Today, Harvard has launched a new website - HarvardScience - showcasing the depth and breadth of science, medicine, and engineering at all of Harvard's schools and affiliated hospitals:
The site provides a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in science in general, and particularly what's happening at Harvard in the sciences and engineering.
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When Harvard does something, all the others follow. Perhaps this is the tipping point for Open Access as a whole. Peter Suber and Gavin Baker have the best commentary and all the links to other worthy commentary in a series of posts worth studying:
Harvard Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing: Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained
Given the size of the kinds of Federal bail-outs being discussed these days, Harvard University's endowment, almost $37 billion, by far the largest of any university in the world, sounds like chump change.
From today's Boston Globe: