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So. Somewhere in all the craziness that is the end of the semester I managed to do all the readings but forgot until the very last minute that I needed to do a blog post about them. As I drove to campus I pondered with some consternation as to whether or not I had time to produce a blog post, and decided that while I could probably come up with something, I had a better idea (at least I think it’s a better idea): I am going to live blog our discussion in class today. This will be my first time live blogging anything, so it will be a neat experiment. After class to is done I will produce a brief summation of the discussion including my own analysis of what we’ve discussed. I hope this is an acceptable endeavor.

In the D-Lib article on open access and open data, Elena Giglia writes “Access is the real challenge, as knowledge is usable only if it is accessible.” To me this seems to be the core arguments of all our readings. Each author then presents their own idea on how to meet this goal. Which solutions seem most satisfying? Where is the overlap and divergence between them? How do we, as young scholars, feel about open access? These are some questions I’m sure we’ll spend time on tonight.