Richard White 3.5 inch floppy. That’s the medium I stored my thesis on when I finally completed it in 1996. I don’t have any of these disks left – or a machine that will read them for that matter – so the only copies I have of my thesis are the physical ones I got...
Category: OA Week 2012
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Is Open Access for Free Too Much to Ask?
Paul Gardner Google is now the second most valuable IT company. They made the bulk of their fortune by providing fast and accurate internet searches for free and are funded almost entirely by advertising. If you had told me this would happen a decade or two ago I would’ve thought it was ludicrous! Similarly, the...
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Open Access in Aotearoa: OA Week 2012
With Open Access Week (October 22-28) around the corner, there’s plenty of events taking place across the country. With moves towards open access to scholarly publishing taking place in the UK, the EU, USA and Australia, it seems like a good time to start thinking about what open access will look like closer to home....
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