Cognitive dissonance

One of the latest institutional open-access policies comes from Harvard Business School (hat tip to Stuart Shieber).

This is the same school that plays horrendous anti-library, anti-education games with their flagship Harvard Business Review.

My head hurts.

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As a former business librarian in a public library setting, in regards to the Harvard Business Review (not to mention the case studies),I can only say: Once again, you have hit the nail squarely on the head!!

It was news to me that HBR is NOT peer reviewed. Will their prestige suddenly plummet?

By Robin Sinn (not verified) on 04 Mar 2010 #permalink