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...copyright-protected books on the condition that they charge for access and give 63% of the revenue generated to the copyright holders, represented by a new organization that the settlement creates, the “Book Rights Registry.”No one seems too satisfied with this. Harvard Professor of History and Director of the Harvard University Library Robert Darnton has some serious problems with it, because he believes that commercial interests will pervert what could have been a great public good: a freely accessed database containing all of the world’s knowledge. Numerous authors have voiced...
Long-time Harvard economics Professor John Y. Campbell will take over as chair of the Department of Economics on July 1—taking the helm in the midst of an economic downturn that has made its mark on the department. Campbell will replace the current chair, economics professor James H. Stock, who has served out his three year term. In his 15th year at the University, Campbell specializes in asset pricing and macroeconomics. Since 2004, he has also served on the board of Harvard Management Company—the organization charged with managing Harvard’s endowment. Campbell...
...Mail2World” and noted that Mail2World already provides services to the Law School and the Divinity School. Besides these two references and an expression of confidence from Levine, the press release said nothing else about the e-mail vendor.Harry R. Lewis ’68, a computer science professor and former dean of the College, says he has confidence in the negotiations that took place and the contract that came out of it.“My sense from knowing what I know and reading the press releases is that the people who negotiated this contract with Mail2World have...
During a town hall meeting two weeks ago, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith tasked staffers and professors with “reshaping” their operations—but with few specifics emerging in the wake of the charge, a confused Faculty is waiting with bated breath for details.At the time, Smith called for broad-based restructuring of FAS, instead of simply shaving costs at the edges, to make up a $220 million deficit over the next two years.“Reshaping starts with the academic activities we’re doing...
...health information sharing in Portugal. The program, which will involve Portugal’s seven major medical schools and various major biomedical research laboratories, represents the culmination of a two-year planning and discussion process initiated by the Portuguese government, according to Tomas Kirchhausen, an HMS cell biology professor and one of the architects of the program. One major goal of the collaboration is to expand translational research, which aims to apply the findings of basic science investigations to clinical practices and treatments. Kirchhausen, who will serve as HMS Director of the HMS-Portugal Program, said that the new program...