Category Archives: Publishing

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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Google Books Settlement: Now featuring me

Posted on 3 December 2009 by Gavin Baker

I’ve blogged twice about the Google Books Settlement (here and here), in addition to following it at considerable length on Open Access News. Now, I’m part of it! A footnote in Pamela Samuelson’s objection tipped me off: Most other signatories … Continue reading →

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Nitpicking the Google Books Settlement 2.0

Posted on 18 November 2009 by Gavin Baker

I previously posted on the Google Books Settlement, avoiding the well-trod ground and focusing on points that were salient but hadn’t received much discussion. Now that there’s a new draft of the proposed settlement, I’ll do the same: The revised … 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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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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A few thoughts on the Google Books Settlement

Posted on 8 September 2009 by Gavin Baker

So much ink has already been spilled on the topic of the Google Books Settlement that I won’t dwell on it too much. I do, though, want to point out a few issues that haven’t been getting much play in … 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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