- Cliff Lynch on institutional repositories. I don't agree with quite all of it (institutional repositories are here to stay? really? in this budget environment? sez who?), but an hour with Cliff Lynch is always an hour well spent, and I'm completely and unabashedly with him on his cautions about IRs.
- Margaret Dayhoff, a founder of the field of bioinformatics. (Hat tip to blogger Mary.)
- Researchers love their disciplines, not their institutions: open-access repositories and the arts. (What does that mean for institution-based e-research efforts?)
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