The Quintessence of Ham

Before the excite­ment sur­round­ing last month’s Open Access Week fades com­pletely — too late — I thought it might be appro­pri­ate to describe how and where Zotero inter­sects with OA. When peo­ple talk about Open Access, they typ­i­cally mean free access to pub­lished, usu­ally schol­arly, con­tent. It’s a con­cept that’s ide­o­log­i­cally easy for most researchers to get behind because few of us reap any direct finan­cial ben­e­fit from the major­ity of our pub­li­ca­tions, and we’re all very famil­iar with the annoy­ing fric­tions intro­duced by gat­ing access to con­tent. Cham­pi­oning Open Access is kind of like advo­cat­ing not club­bing baby seals: you’re unlikely to encounter much oppo­si­tion. » Read the rest of this entry «