Blogging is liable to be sparse next week, as I will be at Science Online 2010 to do a workshop about institutional repositories, and talk about libraries generally alongside the inestimable Stephanie Willen Brown.
Here are the slides for my half of the latter:
I'm not doing slides for the workshop; it's a workshop and I want it to be hands-on and participant-driven. I expect we'll do some SHERPA/RoMEO trawling, some test uploads and metadata, some cold reads of publication agreements, things like that.
If you'll be there next week, please come say hi; I look forward to meeting you! If not, keep an eye on the hashtag #scio10—I expect it'll be hopping.
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