Open access potential Catch-22- June 20, 2008 I&8217;ve written here before about open access, though it&8217;s been a while. And way back in 2005 I wrote about the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development&8217;s office offering small grants to cover author fees. This is great, and the maximum award of $5,000 is generous&8230; more than enough to cover my current needs. Which ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=594 worDLcat- June 10, 2008 I want to start this by saying that this was completely Kathleen Kern&8217;s idea. We were talking over dinner at LIDA last week, and she asked me, essentially, &8220;Why isn&8217;t there an equivalent of WorldCat for digital libraries&8221; I gave some lame answer: no standardization across DLs, complexity of dealing with item- and collection-level description ...http://www.ibiblio.org/pomerantz/blog/?p=593 |