Access to Information
War and Culture
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007In a time of war, there is loss of life. There is also loss of culture.
Dr. Saad Eskander, the director of the National Archives in Iraq, has been fighting to preserve the cultural history of his country since 2003. On any given day, his task is a difficult (and perhaps losing) battle. […]
ALA Alert on Access to Research
Monday, July 16th, 2007From the ALA Alert:
Effective yesterday, both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have proposed fiscal year (FY) 2008 spending bills that direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to change its Public Access Policy so that NIH-funded researchers are required to deposit copies of NIH-funded research into the online archive of the National Library of […]
