Quick post on an important topic. I don’t publish in OA journals 100% of the time…. almost always, but not always. What gives? This deserves more discussion than I’ll give it in this post, but here’s a recent response to someone who was rightly curious about the following links to my three most recent papers: […]
More and more of us are being choosy about where to place our publishing-related efforts: we say no to reviewing requests for non-OA journals, we preferentially choose to publish in OA journals, we refuse to publish in Elsevier journals… we figure out where our principles meet our pragmatic needs and we make decisions accordingly. I’ve heard people […]
The following is a guest post by Madeline Sheldon, Junior Fellow with NDIIPP During the last week of June, I had the pleasure of attending the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s symposium titled, Conserving and Exhibiting the Works of Nam June Paik, which featured museum professionals who discussed their previous experiences with the conservation and preservation […]
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a former Fellow in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In this installment of our ongoing interview series with new members of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, […]
The July 2013 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available! Included in this issue: Announcing the NDSA Innovation Award Winners Moving on Up: New Web Archives Presentation Home 10 Resources for Community Digital Archives Why Can’t You Just Build It and Leave It Alone? What People are Asking About Personal Digital Archiving, Part […]
I am relentlessly optimistic about the future of personal digital archiving. There is simply too much at stake, in my mind, to feel anything but hopeful. Let’s face it, though: it’s hard. A well-regarded expert who has spent years studying personal digital habits tells me that people just won’t invest time and effort to preserve […]