tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143094502257526063.post7063081610222959051..comments2023-07-25T03:59:36.829-04:00Comments on Sheridan Libraries Travels: CNI Fall 2009 Membership MeetingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143094502257526063.post-87043087998243978752009-12-29T15:08:49.703-05:002009-12-29T15:08:49.703-05:00Just when universities are at last realizing what ...Just when universities are at last realizing what needs to be done to fill their repositories with their own refereed research output (namely, to mandate deposit), JHU decides to go for in-house and vanity publishing. The ones primarily to blame are of course JHU researchers, for being as obtuse as researchers at most other institutions have been about what is in their own best interests and fully within reach. Next, there are JHU's administrators, who have so far been no wiser than their researchers. And then of course there are the funders, who foolishly and myopically mandate institution-external deposit instead of institutional deposit, competing with institutional mandates instead of reinforcing them. And last, the poor librarians, who are not empowered to mandate that JHU researchers deposit, so instead they try to head wherever the wind seems to be blowing... http://bit.ly/5ufZgaStevan Harnadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14374474060972737847noreply@blogger.com