<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>* Announcement (cross-posted) *</div><div><br></div><div>I just mailed the September issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue includes the concluding installment of the essay started in the August issue on William Garvey's 1979 observation that "in some disciplines, it is easier to repeat an experiment than it is to determine that the experiment has already been done." In Part 2, I connect OA with three variations on Garvey's theme: when we we want to redo past work, to test its results, when we inadvertently redo past work, thinking it's new, and when we don't want to redo past work, or look it up, because we've allowed knowledge to become taboo and replaced curiosity with a defensive preference for what we already believe. </div>
<div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-10.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-10.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>The roundup section briefly notes 137 OA developments from August.</div>
<div><br></div><div>September 2010 issue</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-10.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-10.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>How to subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter and discussion forum.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan">http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan</a></div><div><br></div><div>The current and back issues are all open access, of course.</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peter</div><div><br></div><div>Peter Suber</div><div>Senior Researcher, SPARC</div><div>Berkman Fellow, Harvard University</div><div>Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College</div>
<div>Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/</a></div><div><br></div></font></font>