Most Expensive College Dorms for 2009-2010
Room and board can be a big expense on top of tuition and is a price that often gets overshadowed by high tuition prices. Take NYU for example, who has the
Draft report on openness in higher ed.
The Committee for Economic Development, a longstanding American business-led think tank, has released a draft of its report, Harnessing Openness to Impro...
Upgrades to RoMEO database of publisher policies
SHERPA, Major RoMEO Upgrade Released, announcement, October 22, 2009.As part of ongoing improvements to the RoMEO service, the Centre for Research Communications is excited to announce...
Roman Life
Hrm, ok. Let's pretend everything is seven or eight days ago so that I can write about this as if it happened last weekend.[Begin Time Travel](^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something that's probably only offered at...
Obama's Visiting MIT!
You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog
Colleges with the Highest Total Cost 2009-2010
Here are the top 100 most expensive colleges by total cost for the 2009-2010 school year.Total Cost = Tuition + Room and BoardCollegeCost1. Sarah Lawrence College
Top Cities for Finding a Job After College
While many college grads tend to focus on applying to certain companies within their field, perhaps shifting the job search to focusing on location can lead to s...
Opportunities from OA patent info
Robinson Esalimba and William New, Spurring Local Innovation In Africa By Improving Access To Information, Intellectual P...
$5,000+: avg. revenue per STM article
Heather Morrison, Research Brief: Library savings from full flip to open access via article processing fees: about two-thirds savings, The Imaginary J...
EU meeting to draft recommendations on OA
Open Access Week 2009, Enabling Open Scholarship, October 18, 2009.... Four members of the EOS Board will be attending the invitation-only conference h...
Open Access Week is just around the corner
International Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009) is almost upon us -- here's a sampling of some activities worldwide:JISC and
OA mandate at U. Salford
University of Salford, University formally announces intention to be Open Access for research, press release, October 19, 2009.The University has become the 100th university in the wor...
Paper Planes
Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A Part III blog._________...
MIT is Utopia
The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last weekend was Utopia, a big boat cruise and party in the Boston Harbor. MIT CSC (Chinese Student's Club) hosted it, and a bunch of students from other schools (Harvard, BU, BC, Tufts, Wellse...
OA a topic at ARL meeting
Jennifer Howard, Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told, The Wired Campus, October 15, 2009.Public access to research is "inevitabl...
MIT is Utopia
The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last weekend was Utopia, a big boat cruise and party in the Boston Harbor. MIT CSC (Chinese Student's Club) hosted it, and a bunch of students from other schools (Harvard, BU, BC, Tufts, Wellse...
