Art Exhibitions at the International Museum of Surgical Science

The International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago is pleased to present “Myth Symbol Image,” an exhibition of digital montages by Laura Kurtenbach, and “Fingerprint DNA: A Portrait of an Arab-American Family,” a fiber installation by Geraldine Ondrizek, as part of its ongoing “Anatomy in the Gallery” contemporary art program. The exhibitions will run concurrently, opening on Friday, August 1, 2008, with a free, public reception for the artists from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., and remaining on view through October 17. Both of these artists employ translucent layers to juxtapose cultural tradition and craft with medical science.

Open access to online journals

Education Week (not itself an open-access publication) reports that faculty at Stanford's School of Education have voted to make scholarly articles available for free to the public. According to a Stanford professor, only 15 percent of 1,600 education journals worldwide provide free access.

At the same time, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports a study that finds as more scholarly articles appear online, scholars' citations tend toward more recent and less diverse articles.