Re: Bad Times are Good Times for Open Access?

[Thomas Krichel <krichel@openlib.org>]

Joseph J. Esposito writes

> This assumes that DSpace and other OA vehicles are run in a 
> bare-bones way, with little overhead.  Perhaps that is yet 
> another fantasy.

It is. DSpace, Fedora Commons, EPrints etc require expertise to 
run that is not cheap to hire in general and not readily 
available in libraries. Library education should make efforts to 
include such expertise in the curriculum.  I am taking pioneering 
steps in this direction, see my course project

http://openlib.org/home/krichel/courses/lis654p09s/

Comments are welcome.

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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