Open access serendipity
Cross my heart and hope to die, I do not have a mole at the Washington Post. It was not my doing that they published this article (bugmenot is your friend) the day I was scheduled to go to another of MPOW’s campuses and speak to a bunch of department heads in the high-tech health sciences.
The headline is a wreck, unfortunately—as I said to the researchers I was talking to, when was the last time any of them got paid for an article?
But boy, I don’t mind grabbing onto that tiger’s ears anyway. Nuh-uh. That kind of immediate credibility is worth more than gold.
“Well,” mused the man who runs that campus after I’d given my spiel, “what would you think of turning [the repository] into a campus-wide project?”
After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I said that I’d be very happy to discuss that.
Now, nobody get too excited. Many a slip ’twixt cup and lip, and there’s a lot of work for me between one offhand suggestion and a consistent flow of materials into the repository. But I’m willing to say the Post and I smacked a fair ball into the bleachers today.