Monthly Archives: August 2008

Benchmarking institutonal participation in open access

Posted on 25 August 2008 by Gavin Baker

Benchmarks and peer comparison are handy motivators. So I’m interested in the new tool released by open access journal publisher Hindawi as part of its new institutional membership program. The new tool allows anyone to see at a glance the … Continue reading →

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Podcast of my talk at Simmons library school

Posted on 16 August 2008 by Gavin Baker

Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science has posted a podcast of my presentation there in May on students and open access. (Thanks to Peter for noticing it, even when the Google Alert on my name didn’t.)

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Author’s rights: let’s be clear on the problem

Posted on 2 August 2008 by Gavin Baker

There are a number of available remedies (e.g. 1, 2, 3) to the problems posed by authors signing away their copyright to academic journals. But the thicket of solutions and the surrounding rhetoric can sometimes muddy up what the real … Continue reading →

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