lauantai 10. toukokuuta 2008

Open Access Publishing/Harvard

Once again, Harvard is leading the way.

Harvard Law School, is the next in the line of transforming the old, and almost sacred principles of academic publishing: peer-reviewing, long-waiting-times, and expensive. Now on, Harvard Law's papers are delivered fast, and - free on the web. To be sure, this will create new pressures to traditional academic publishing houses, but also, and happily, this will clearly boost scholarly communication among the best researchers in the world.

"The Harvard Law School faculty produces some of the most exciting, groundbreaking scholarship in the world," said Dean Elena Kagan in Harvard Law School's website. And, she is right.

In addition, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is celebrating already its first 10 years. This fine institution is creating the future for media, and journalism as well. You can participate the seminars online by webcasts, and live videoblogging, May 15, and 16, from here.

By Turo Uskali

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