Category Archives: Open access

Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating women in technology

Posted on 24 March 2009 by Gavin Baker

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to call attention to the achievements of women in technology. Despite its stereotype as a field dominated by men, women have made significant contributions to the field of computing since its inception, back … Continue reading →

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Why not publish data?

Posted on 16 March 2009 by Gavin Baker

I try to avoid writing things that may make me sound stupid, but this post falls in that category. Recently I was reading about efforts related to data sharing: technological infrastructure, curation, educating researchers, and the like. I was struck … Continue reading →

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On making sausage: the NIH policy becomes permanent

Posted on 11 March 2009 by Gavin Baker

Update. I want to reiterate a few points for clarity. This post, and everything on this blog, represents my opinion alone, not that of my clients. I did not write this post at their behest nor am I adding this … Continue reading →

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On jurisdiction; or, letting copyright trump science

Posted on 8 March 2009 by Gavin Baker

Rep. John Conyers has released his response to the widely-circulated open letter by Lawrence Lessig and Michael Eisen criticizing Conyers’ anti-open access bill, H.R. 801. Eisen, Steven Harnad, and Peter Suber have already responded ably to Conyers’ response. There’s one … Continue reading →

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Sussing out the details on locus of deposit

Posted on 9 February 2009 by Gavin Baker

My previous post on locus of deposit for scholarly self-archiving provoked a few reactions, as I thought it might. Stevan Harnad’s is the most thorough and notable. I think we each missed a few points. Let me make a few … Continue reading →

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Authors: I don’t care where you deposit, just do it

Posted on 5 February 2009 by Gavin Baker

One of the ongoing debates in open access regards the locus of deposit for self-archiving. That is: if researchers are posting a copy of their manuscript to be freely accessible online, where should they post it? The debate is usually … Continue reading →

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1 year @ Open Access News

Posted on 5 February 2009 by Gavin Baker

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my work for Open Access News.

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Liveblog: BRDI: Continued

Posted on 30 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

I’m liveblogging the first meeting of the new Board on Research Data and Information today and yesterday. Standard liveblogging disclaimers apply. The presentation slides are on the meeting site. Because some of the slides are online, I’ll focus on what’s … Continue reading →

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