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Open Access Jargon or Obscure Pop Culture Reference

Posted on | October 11, 2006 | 5 Comments

I’ve been reading a ton of stuff on open access recently. My brain always works in weird ways when I try to absorb a lot of new terminology at once. So I started making a mini-list of terms that cause confusion:

OA = Open Access or Important planet for Green Lantern?!

Group of Eight = Important Group of Australian Universities or Inspired Cover Band Name?

ROAR = Registry of Open Access Repositories or a TV show starring Heath Ledger that was quickly canceled by Fox?

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5 Responses to “Open Access Jargon or Obscure Pop Culture Reference”

  1. Kitty
    October 11th, 2006 @ 7:21 pm

    I’m so glad that somebody besides me remembers the Roar TV series! Sometimes I think it was a figment of my imagination.

  2. tangognat
    October 11th, 2006 @ 9:13 pm

    I swear they were rerunning it on the SciFi channel a long long time ago.

  3. Dorothea
    October 12th, 2006 @ 4:40 am

    The DOAJ does not live in Venice. :)

    Let me know if you want pointers to more reading material.

  4. Anne
    October 12th, 2006 @ 5:30 am

    They did re-run it on Scifi and I remember it too. I think you can get Roar on DVD.

  5. tangognat
    October 13th, 2006 @ 10:56 pm

    Wow, you’re right, Netflix has the series. Crazy!

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