DASH Stories
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Story "What is the History of Books?"… : DASH Story 2014-06-10My masters dissertation in the University of Reading is based on Darton's communication circuit. I have been using the 1982 version, but ""What is the History of Books?" Revisited" is also key. The university did not have access to it and the price (US$ 30, I guess) was really expensive for a student. Thank you so much for making it freely available! People tend to think that those enrolled in a post graduate university can afford academic articles, but I have seen that this is not the case.Story "What is the History of Books?"… : DASH Story 2017-05-19I work from home. This article is required for reference and it is great to be able to access full text without having to travel to the library and order the journal in personStory 30,000 Years Old Wild Flax Fibers… : DASH Story 2014-03-12I am involved in historical education including stone age and being able to read about the precise finds is invaluable. I can now show pupils how to twist flax fibres into cordage as part of their stone age experiential learning, as well as use natural plant dyeing. This information is just too important to keep secret, so thank you for sharing!Story A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and… : DASH Story 2013-11-14I am preparing a talk on media freedom and regulation, which is a topic of high current interest in the UK at present. I found a reference to this paper via Google, and was pleased to be able to download it.Story A Map of Human Genome Variation… : DASH Story 2013-06-03Open access to scientific papers is vital if the public are to be properly informed, and armed with the information allowing them to defend themselves against being misled, either by politicians or by pressure groups for various ideologies. I rely upon open access in the continued battle to inform the public about genuine scientific findings, in the face of duplicitous anti-science propaganda by, for example, various creationist organisations. Without open access, combating the lies would be considerably more difficult.Story A Phase I trial of high… : DASH Story 2015-11-15I am a clinical oncology specialist registrar in the UK. I am currently attending a masters course in oncology and the current module is about trial design. It was extremely helpful to read this protocol, as it was the only one I could find that discusses the use of lumbar puncture for PK analysis. There are probably many other phase I trials protocols that use this method too, but I couldn't find them; probably because they have not been made publicly available. So thank you Harvard!Story Active Belief… : DASH Story 2015-08-20I'm a retired anaesthetist, now 69. I was recently awarded a PhD (Queen's University Belfast) in philosophy for thesis entitled 'Causality in a McDowellian World'. I now have no academic affiliation, nor any prospect of one, and therefore find Open Access extremely useful for further study.Story Adagio… : DASH Story 2014-08-16I came upon this article in "Google Scholar" It is very frustrating in other instances to find that most of the references relevant to my MA dissertation are hedged around with conditions for access which make them inaccessable as expensive. Many thanks for your initiative!Story Adding Bricks to Clicks: On the… : DASH Story 2017-04-13After a looking down the barrel of a prison sentence, I was lost. I left my job and started reading and I read voraciously. Stories transplanted me somewhere; a vessel to calmer plains and pacific waters. After a few years, I decided to try my luck at university. I had years of catching up to do, many damaged brain cells to repair, many insecurities to conquer. My public education was awful and I needed outside support. The internet provided the means but the great American institutions provided the raw data, the intellectual dynamite required for blowing my intellectual cobwebs off and seeking higher intellectual atmospheres. Both Harvard and Yale have been key planks in allowing me to rendezvous with redemption. With the click of a mouse, they have provided a mine of world-class academic literature that has helped me prosper as an individual. For that I am grateful to Harvard, Yale, and the other great institutions that provide opportunity to learn. I am now a digital marketer and studying an MSC to progress my career further.Story An Ethnography of Brand Piracy in… : DASH Story 2013-04-05I have a long-standing interest in indigenous peoples' rights and intellectual property having worked many years ago for Darrell Posey who was a pioneer in this emerging field. I am very keen to read other critical perpectives. I might add that two of my works are cited in the thesis. Needless to say I am grateful for having free access to this work, whilst appreciating that free access and use to and of information in all contexts is not a fundamental right, as many indigenous groups would agree.