Category Archives: Academia

Florida State University adopts open access resolution

Posted on 19 October 2011 by Gavin Baker

I’m pleased to announce that tonight, Florida State University’s faculty senate unanimously adopted a resolution supporting open access. (I’ve been a M.S. student in the School of Library & Information Studies since 2010; unfortunately, I didn’t know about this effort … Continue reading →

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NSF Should Not Remove Dissemination from Merit Criteria

Posted on 18 July 2011 by Gavin Baker

Since my prior post about the National Science Foundation’s consultation on its merit review criteria, NSF released a proposed set of revised criteria which aim to clarify and simply the criteria and their purpose. Unfortunately, the revised criteria would remove … Continue reading →

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Comments on NSF’s Merit Review Criteria

Posted on 15 March 2011 by Gavin Baker

Today, I submitted these comments to the consultation on the National Science Foundation’s Task Force on Merit Review (see). They are provided solely in my personal capacity. What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of each criterion? The … 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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way

Posted on 15 September 2009 by Gavin Baker

Harvard and 4 other universities did something neat recently: they agreed, in principle, to help finance open access publishing. Of course, the devil’s in the details (more on that in a future post), not least of which is that, at … Continue reading →

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The case for plagiarism

Posted on 2 June 2009 by Gavin Baker

There’s been a recent tiffle about alleged plagiarism in the dissertation of a student who is now a university president. In this case, the entire research design is borrowed from an earlier study, which the author acknowledges and cites: [T]his … Continue reading →

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Guest post on 1 year of NIH open access

Posted on 8 April 2009 by Gavin Baker

The NIH Public Access Policy took effect on April 7, 2008. I have a guest post at Science Progress looking at the policy after a year in implementation.

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LOC preserving legal blogs

Posted on 2 April 2009 by Gavin Baker

Following on my recent post about preservation for scholarly blogs (and see Dorothea Salo’s take), today I found this (via techPresident): The Law Library of Congress began harvesting legal blawgs in 2007. The collection has grown to more than one … Continue reading →

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