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"Americans too often teach their children to despise those
who hold unpopular opinions. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in
aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our
democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and
out of place – the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else’s
keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan."
— Mark Twain
This note came over the LITA-L listserv from Charles W. Bailey over at Digital Scholarship. It’s worth reading. In the interest of getting this out to as many folks as possible, I’ll just post the e-mail in its (slightly edited) entirety, active links and all:
Peter Suber reports that the NIH open access mandate may be deleted or weakened by last-minute amendments to the FY 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill.
Click here for Peter Suber’s report
If you are a US citizen and you support the mandate, there is an urgent need for you to contact your senators by the end of business on Monday, October 22.
You can easily contact them using the ALA Action Alert Web form with my cut-and-paste version of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access’ text about the amendments or you can use the same form to write your own text.
You can easily contact them using the ALA Action Alert Web form with my cut-and-paste version of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access’ text about the amendments or you can use the same form to write your own text.
Not to push both my readers, but I think you could do worse than to forward this to someone.
Even if I were not already a hard core fan of the Economist, I’d think this was a Great Idea:
More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are set to become
available online with the launch of The Economist Historical Archive
1843-2003.The archive will contain more than 600,000 pages of the weekly magazine’s reporting and analysis.
It is a joint project between Gale – part of Cengage Learning – and the Economist.
"The Economist Historical Archive is more than a database – it is a
remarkable record of the most significant world events over the past
160 years through the unbiased, probing eyes of the Economist," said
John Micklethwait, the magazine’s editor-in-chief.
Here’s one for rare book collectors around the world:
Vatican Publishes Knights Templar Papers.
Enjoy!