{"id":7478,"date":"2013-03-29T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2013-04-13T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:54:21","slug":"press-qa-knowledge-liberator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2013\/03\/29\/press-qa-knowledge-liberator\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: Q&#038;A: Knowledge liberator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Robert Darnton heads the world&#8217;s largest collection of academic publications, the Harvard University Library system. He is also a driver behind the new Digital Public Library of America. Ahead of its launch in April, he talks about Google, science journals and the open-access debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;How did you come to run the Harvard libraries?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s. As president of the American Historical Association I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007. From that position I have been trying to help grow the digital landscape to serve the public good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><em>An excerpt f<\/em>rom Jascha Hoffman&#8217;s article for<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> Nature, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v495\/n7442\/full\/495447a.html\">Q&amp;A: Knowledge liberator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Darnton heads the world&#8217;s largest collection of academic publications, the Harvard University Library system. He is also a driver behind the new Digital Public Library of America. Ahead of its launch in April, he talks about Google, science journals and the open-access debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7483,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}