Impact, not ideology, was the watchword at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference. Attendees focused on the benefits of putting research--in the humanities and social sciences as well as in the sciences--quickly and freely into the hands of scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. One or two people in this room will die in the next five years because of research that didn't make its way to clinics fast enough," one presenter, Cameron Neylon, told the crowd. " Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
Writing
“A National Digital Public Library Begins to Take Shape”
Energy and enthusiasm ruled the day at a plenary meeting hosted by the National Archives. But a lot of the details of the proposed library remain unsettled. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Hot Type: ‘Princeton Shorts’ Tries to Lure Readers With Excerpts From Full Books”
Will a Kingle Singles-like model work for university presses? Princeton UP tries an experiment (with previously published content, though). My sense: interesting and worthwhile experiment but not likely to transform scholarly publishing. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Hemingway’s Newly Released Letters Cast Author in New Light”
The first volume of Hemingway's collected letters is out this month. Publishing them all is expected to take 20 years. Hemingway never wanted his letters to be made public but posterity outvoted him. For this story, I got to talk to the author's surviving son, Patrick, about what the letters tell us that the biographies get wrong. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Hemingway in His Own Words”
A handful of highlights from some of the author's just-published letters. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
