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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

OA report on OA in art history

Charles W. Bailey Jr., Rice University Press Publishes Its First Open Access Digital Document, DigitalKoans, October 23, 2006. Excerpt:

The recently re-established Rice University Press, which was reborn as a digital press, has published its first e-report: Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age by Hilary Ballon (Professor and Director of Art Humanities at the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology) and Mariet Westermann (Director and Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)....

Like all digital works to be published by the press, this one is under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. At this time, it does not appear that a print-on-demand version of the work is available from Rice University Press.

PS:  For background on the new OA Rice University Press, see my blog post from July 14, 2006, and for background on the Ballon/Westermann study, see my blog post from August 9, 2006.