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<div>Greetings Postdocs,</div>
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<div>The MIT Libraries have created a new web site on scholarly
communications issues: </div>
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<div><b>Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Why You Should
Care</b></div>
<div>http://libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/</div>
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<div>This site brings together key web documents related to
publishing, pricing, and copyright issues, in addition to MIT faculty
quotes on the issues, and real tools and information you can use.
Sections of the site include:</div>
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<div><b>What's happening at MIT?</b></div>
<div>Faculty perspectives and impacts on the MIT community.</div>
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<div><b>What's happening nationally and beyond?</b></div>
<div>Open Access movement, the NIH public access proposal, the Public
Library of Science, etc.</div>
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<div><b>What can faculty do?</b></div>
<div>Tools and suggestions to help you exert your influence through
publishing decisions and managing your copyright.</div>
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<div><b>What can students do?</b></div>
<div>How the next generation of scholars can make an impact as both
information users and as authors.</div>
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<div>We expect to continue to develop the site over time, so if you
have comments or suggestions, or if there are other features you would
like us to incorporate, please let me know. </div>
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<div>Howard Silver</div>
<div>MIT Libraries Researchers User Group, <a
href="mailto:rug-lib@mit.edu">rug-lib@mit.edu</a></div>
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<div><tt>Howard Silver</tt></div>
<div><tt>Associate Head, Science Library
14S-136 voice: 617 253-9319</tt></div>
<div><tt>Massachusetts Institute of
Technology fax:
617 253-6365</tt></div>
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href="mailto:hsilver@mit.edu"><tt>hsilver@mit.edu</tt></a></div>
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href="http://libraries.mit.edu"><tt>http://libraries.mit.edu</tt></a></div
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