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September 05, 2007
Author discusses pros and cons of internet
This article was forwarded to me on a reference listserv I am subscribed to. Although the overall topic is information literacy, I found it interesting that the focus of the interview, Mark Herring, states that one pressing need for today's academic library is the need to "figure out a way to provide information that is scholarly and peer reviewed for students." He goes on to mention how much his library pays for proprietary databases like Lexis-Nexis.
The more I read about the move for Open Access, the more I believe it will only help and not hurt. If we could give internet ease-of-access combined with high level scholarly communication it seems it would be a win-win situation. What are your thoughts?
Once again, here is the link to the article.
-- Posted by Lisa Burley
Posted by colldev at September 5, 2007 03:21 PM