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From a FDLP (Federal Depostitory Library News) Article: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LOC) recently received approval from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) to proceed on two collaborative efforts. One project involves the digitization of some of our nation’s most important legal and legislative documents and the other […]
"Scholars Favor Open-Access Journals, but Some Say Quality and Fees Are Concerns"
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|From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new survey of nearly 40,000 scholars across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences shows that almost 90 percent of them believe open-access journals are good for the research community and the individual researcher. But charges for publishing and the perception that open-access journals are of lower quality […]