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...dark underground caverns of a prestigious New York newspaper are the right setting for the murder at the outset of Black and White and Dead All Over (Knopf; 368 pages) by John Darnton, the author of biology-fiction thrillers Neanderthal and The Darwin Conspiracy. A 30-year veteran of the New York Times, Darnton delivers a knowing, insider's portrait of the newspaper with great sympathy and humor, and successfully captures the intense human drama and daunting business imperatives in the world of newspapering. A sense of impending doom hovers over the enterprise, a sense that its greatness is slipping...
...benefits of an open access policy but with very low cost because of the nature of scholarly publishing in our field,” Palfrey said. Rising costs of academic journals have caused some university libraries to cut back on subscriptions. But Harvard University Library Director Robert C. Darnton ’60 said that there will be “no direct conflict” between open access and journal subscriptions, unless the policy were to spread much more extensively than it has so far. Darnton has made online publishing a priority since arriving at Harvard last year from...
...remarkable mastery of the issues concerning information technology, which are central to the functioning of a great research library,” Darnton said...
...role of Robert C. Darnton ’60—the head of the University library system, who is technically in charge of all of Harvard’s collections—is more to facilitate collaborative enterprises, like when Harvard’s various libraries pooled their money to create the unified, electronic Hollis catalog in the 1990s...
...Darnton praised Palfrey in an interview yesterday, saying that his “experience in the Berkman Center stands out as one of his strongest qualifications...