Monthly Archives: October 2009

Happy Open Access Week

Posted on 20 October 2009 by Gavin Baker

In late 2006 or early 2007, I was looking for ways to get students interested in open access. I had started to become versed in the topic myself a few months earlier, after my library announced it planned to cut … Continue reading →

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Scholarly publishers shake down a copy shop

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Gavin Baker

A group of scholarly publishers — Blackwell, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Sage, and Wiley — last week won a judgment against a Michigan copy shop for assisting students in copying course packs. The students were copying articles from scholarly journals … Continue reading →

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AcaWiki launches: free summaries of academic papers

Posted on 8 October 2009 by Gavin Baker

As I reported at Open Access News, AcaWiki launched yesterday. The idea is free (gratis, libre), editable (wiki) summaries of academic papers. These summaries might be useful to scan during a literature review or when studying for a class, or … Continue reading →

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