The citation on Dean doesn't mention his OA work. But for details, see our past posts on him.
From the citation on Dorothea:
Cassandra of Open Access. [Dorothea is the] digital repository librarian at the UW-Madison Library....“Dorothea is the Cassandra of open access,” says Laura Crossett, branch manager, Park County Library System, Meeteetse, WY, “the one speaking powerful, critical truths that most people would rather not hear.”
Take for example Salo's seminal and widely cited fall 2008 article for Library Trends, Innkeeper at the Roach Motel. “I became the 'Innkeeper at the Roach Motel,'” explains Salo, “when I used the phrase roach motel to explain to a faculty member that the repository didn't have document versioning; documents went in, but they didn't come out to be reworked.” The article builds on topics Salo often visits at her blog, Caveat Lector (“let the reader beware”), where she's similarly become known for pulling no punches.
“Open access starts at home,” says Salo, who sees the profession as “disastrously timid about supporting experimentation and the business models we think preferable, speaking truth to power, even just modeling the behaviors we want faculty to adopt.” Issuing a call to arms, she warns, “We can't just wring our hands about the serials crisis any longer. If we want results, we need to put our market power and our praxis where our mouth is.”
PS: Congratulations to Dean and Dorothea.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/16/2009 03:53:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
