Category Archives: Open access

Openness to protect human subjects in research

Posted on 27 October 2011 by Gavin Baker

The Department of Health and Human Services recently published a proposal to update the federal regulations that govern research on human subjects. It’s a very interesting proposal with a lot of potential changes on the table, and has received more … Continue reading →

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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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Peter Suber wins ALA’s Patterson Award

Posted on 14 April 2011 by Gavin Baker

I missed the news last week, but I’m extremely pleased to learn that Peter Suber will be the recipient of this year’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award by the American Library Association. It’s incredibly well-deserved. Peter, of course, was my … 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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OA + POD + competition?

Posted on 10 December 2009 by Gavin Baker

Here’s a question I thought of recently. I’ve asked a few smart people and none of them were sure of the answer, either, so: There’s a bit of buzz about OA + POD (open access + print-on-demand) as a model … Continue reading →

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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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