T R I N I T Y T O D A Y
to them. Open Access democratizes and
Trinity a Leader in Open Access Movement
globalizes access to information, increasing
the visibility of an author’s work, and by
extension, that person’s home institution.
A
The new policy received high praise from
t its October 23, 2009, meeting during
In the traditional scholarly model, faculty faculty. Erwin F. Cook, T.F. Murchison Pro-
International Open Access Week, Trinity
members submit scholarly articles for publi- fessor of Classical Studies, called it “one of
faculty members endorsed a measure to allow
cation in peer-reviewed journals. Once an the most important educational initiatives in
them to bypass some publication restrictions
article is accepted, the journals acquire all a generation.” Economics professor Jorge
while sharing their scholarly research with
rights to the body of work, thus forcing cam- Gonzalez, lauded Trinity’s willingness to be
the broader academic community, making
pus libraries to purchase subscriptions to a leader in reshaping the industry instead of
the University the first small, primarily
access the material to share with students simply watching it happen, calling the policy
undergraduate liberal arts institution to pass
and other scholars. “the most dramatic changes since Gutenberg
such a measure. Known as Open Access, the
Because of the expense associated with transformed the printing of books.”
movement’s goal is to expand the data-base
specialized, scholarly journal subscriptions, To date, the only U.S. universities to
of knowledge freely available on the Web,
which can cost tens of thousands of dollars implement such policies are Harvard, Mass-
which is increasingly relied upon for access
a year, only the wealthiest institutions in the achusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford
to high-quality academic research.
wealthiest states and nations have full access University, and the University of Kansas.
NEW RELEASES FROM TRINITY UNIVERSITY PRESS
Remedios: The Healing Life
of Eva Castellanoz
by Joanne B. Mulcahy
This long-awaited biography of a celebrated
curandera, artist, and community activist
provides an engaging portrait and sheds
light on the healing rituals of traditional
Mexican medicine.
Chinese Writers on Writing
edited by Arthur Sze
Home Ground: Language for
This fifth volume in the Writers World
an American Landscape
series features essays along with accompany-
ing poems, prose, and excerptsof interviews
edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney
by 41 leading Chinese writers from 1917
This paperback edition of the book hailed
through 2008.
by reviewers as a “masterpiece,” is a lan-
guage-lover’s reference that revitalizes a
descriptive language for the American land-
scape by combining geography, literature,
and folklore in one volume. www.tupress.trinity.edu
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