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Monday, May 23, 2005

What is Your Role in the Scholarly Communication Cycle--What Should it Be?

Thursday, May 19, we had our 4th and final speaker of the Libraries' Scholarly Communication Speaker Series for 2005. Power point links to all four presentations can be found at: http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/scholcomm2005.html

In today's Wall Street Journal a timely article on the cost of scholarly communications these days and what some of your colleagues are doing about it:

Peer Pressure: Scholarly Journals' Premier Status Is Diluted by Web;
More Research Is Free Online Amid Spurt of Start-Ups;
Publishers' Profits at Risk;
A Revolt on UC's Campuses
Bernard Wysocki Jr.. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: May 23, 2005. pg. A.1

Check out the article at:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=843300241&Fmt=1&clientId=18133&RQT=309&VName=PQD
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