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Jim McCaffery

A Brief Note on the Past, the Future, and Cornell Open

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 sagehousearchives, Cornell Open, Ebooks, Humanities Open Book, Jim McCaffery, JSTOR, Mellon Foundation, metadata, NEH, Open Access, Project Muse

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The Humanities Open Book Program, sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is an effort to make out-of-print scholarly work once again available to scholars, students, and the general public, free of charge, in the form of high-quality, searchable ebooks. It is in many ways a bold, technologically savvy, forward-looking embrace of twenty-first-century developments in publishing and higher education—so what better person to bring on to help usher this dream into reality than an old-fogey stick-in-the-mud like myself who likes nothing better than poking around in museums and used-book stores, prefers riding trains to airplanes, and has never read an ebook cover to cover (or whatever it is they have instead of covers) in his life? Continue reading “A Brief Note on the Past, the Future, and Cornell Open” →

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A Brief Note on the Past, the Future, and Cornell Open
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