[Irtalk] Walking the talk | Scholarly Communications @ Duke

[Hilton Gibson]

All of the presentations at the SPARC Open Access meeting this week were
excellent.  But there was one that was really special; an early career
researcher named Erin McKiernan who brought everyone in the room to their
feet to applaud her commitment to open access.  We are sometimes told that
only established scholars who enjoy the security of tenure can “afford” to
embrace more open ways to disseminate their work.  But Dr. McKiernan
explained to us both the “why” and the “how” of a deep commitment to OA on
the part of a younger scholar who is not willing to embrace traditional,
toll-access publishing or to surrender her goals of advancing scholarship
and having an academic career.

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2014/03/07/walking-the-talk/
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