Category Archives: Academia

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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Scientometrics and OA

Posted on 21 June 2008 by Gavin Baker

Three mathematics societies have issued a report on scientometrics, cautioning against overreliance on the impact factor. Scientometrics is a very relevant topic to open access: the potential impacts on tenure, funding, and the like seem never to be far from … Continue reading →

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A completely open high school

Posted on 13 May 2008 by Gavin Baker

David Wiley announced yesterday that the Utah Board of Education approved a new charter school, the Open High School of Utah. It’ll be a publicly-funded virtual school which uses exclusively open educational resources. There are a few reasons this is … Continue reading →

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Re-discovering Florida’s literary legacy — or not

Posted on 15 March 2008 by Gavin Baker

Out of curiosity, I went Googling for literary magazines published at my alma mater, the University of Florida. What I found: Subtropics, published by the English department, in print since 2006. In current publication. A few items from the current … Continue reading →

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Harvard faculty say yes to OA

Posted on 13 February 2008 by Gavin Baker

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday adopted a mandate for open access to the college’s peer-reviewed research publications. Already, there’s quibbling from others about whether the details of the policy are good or bad. But I want to … Continue reading →

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Speaking @ UCF Knowledge Rights conference

Posted on 29 January 2008 by Gavin Baker

“Knowledge Rights and Information Sharing in the 21st Century” is the theme of the Information Fluency 2008 conference at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Jan. 30 – Feb. 1. I’m speaking on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 2:15 … Continue reading →

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