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The Republic Of Federal Scientific Publication: The Not-So-Public Domain, John Walters

John Walters

This article examines the forces that have made federal scientific publication an essentially private enterprise. Particular attention is paid to the rise of the scientific community in the American political system. The period under review begins roughly with 1941 and American involvement in World War II, which coincides with the establishment of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (ORSD). The article examines OSRD’s method of conducting federal scientific research, its contractual system, and the new publishing paradigm that it engendered. The article concludes in the 1960s with congressional efforts to revise provisions in Title 17, the Copyright Code.

Marginalia No. 5, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Volume 2, Number 2 (Issue no. 5): Spring Issue 1998

WELCOME TO USU LIBRARIES: A LIFELONG CONNECTION-a profile by Elizabeth A. Evans, Marginalia associate editor

LONDON’S IN LOGAN-Ann Buttars, Special Collections, introduces the Jack London Collection

CENSORSHIP UNEARTHED AT USU LIBRARIES-Prof. Michael Sweeney & his research on wartime censors

THE GIFT OF READING-J Shewmake on the Friends’ purchase of 2 low vision reading systems for library

REACH OUT & TEACH SOMEONE-Rob Morrison, Reference, on Extension & Distance Learning programs

FRIENDS SUMMER LECTURE SERIES-Calendar of six summer lectures sponsored by the Friends

NEW SUPPORT FOR USU LIBRARIES- Development director John Payne’s …

A Single Good Mind: Collaboration, Cooperation, And The Writing Self, Michael Spooner, Kathleen Blake Yancey

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Preparing to sign off on the term paper that’s almost overdue, I assemble the onion-sheets, clean, almost papyrus in their texture, collectively re/producing Professor Johnson’s paper: a critical review of David Copperfield. Don’t talk about what you liked, don’t talk about how you felt reading it, don’t talk about how it’s like other novels you’ve read. Just don’t talk: the honor code prohibits that. All of which means: figure out what my Ichabod Crane wants, read the text his way, write his paper, type it, submit.

Not (Necessarily) A Cosmic Convergence: Rhetoric, Poetics, Performance, And The Web, Michael Spooner, Kathleen Yancey

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Marginalia No. 4, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Volume 2, Number 1 (Issue no. 4): Autumn/Winter Issue 1997-98

PRESIDENT EMERT’S VISION FOR USU LIBRARIES-USU’s President’s looks to the future

IN PRAISE OF FRIENDS-Friends’President William Lye reports on Friends’ contributions

‘PORTRAIT OF A LADY’ REDISCOVERED?-Noel Carmack (Spec. Coll.) speculates on this painting’s possible origins

ART IN THE LIBRARIES-Noel Carmack on some of the art & artifact holdings in Special Collections & Archives

CLICKING ON USU LIBRARIES-Kevin Brewer reports on web resources and the Internet

THE INNER LIFE OF LIBRARIES -Vicki Read reviews ‘Libraries, the Drama Within’

JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS-Library Friends Kaye Steed, Elizabeth Rozum & Carl Lundahl are profiled …