FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:17:02 -0400 From: Jo Chamorro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________ RAND OPENS ITS ARCHIVES FOR SCHOLARLY RESEARCH Background The RAND Corporation marks its 50th anniversary in 1998. A non-profit institution dedicated to research and analysis in the public interest, RAND takes this occasion not only to look to the future, but also to broaden its effort to document its first half century. RAND's aim is to see this documentation appear as a group of scholarly publications available to all who have an interest in the institution, its work, and the broad variety of subjects in which it has been engaged. Opportunity RAND invites academic historians and analysts in the fields of public policy and science and technology studies to help achieve this objective. While RAND researchers and staff members are invaluable to our history project as sources of data and experience, RAND employees are not participating in this work as authors. A "vanity history" is far from our purpose. Resources Participating scholars are offered access to RAND's newly opened archives, which are rich and diverse in content. RAND has conducted research across a broad spectrum of scientific, methodological and policy issues -- concentrating on matters at the leading edge of public concern. We believe historical materials and records of these efforts offer scholars unique insights to past and present developments in many substantive fields. Independence of Participants Participating researchers are, of course, expected to maintain high academic standards. The notes they take, interpretations they make, manuscripts they write and subsequent publications are their own. RAND reads draft materials intended for publication checking only for factual accuracy. Consistent with our purpose of stimulating unbiased research, we offer no stipends or other financial incentives. RAND's quid for the participant's quo is unique access to information and people, within and outside of RAND, and the freedom to exploit these sources to open new areas of scholarly research. Faculty and graduate students participating in the history project thus far have gained research support from private foundations, from government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and from their home institutions; these scholars have been productive and comfortable with these arrangements. Contacts Faculty and graduate students interested in learning more about the RAND history project are encouraged to access the RAND website at www.rand.org or to contact Gustave H. Shubert, the RAND Senior Fellow who is coordinating this activity, at RAND (1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, 310-451-6947), or via the internet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). __________________ I would be happy, of course, to answer any questions you may have - Tel: 310 393 0411 Ext. 6947. Thanks. ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
