The New Hillary Library? | by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books
peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-10-19
Summary:
"Should the new librarian of Congress [Carla Hayden] watch these new [open-access] developments from the sidelines? No: she should champion Open Access. She should correct the common misconceptions about its nature—the belief, for example, that it sacrifices peer review—and explain its benefits to university administrators and journal editors who are wary about changing traditional modes of diffusing research...."