Welcome to Open Students
Welcome to Open Students, a new blog for students about open access to research.
I’m Gavin Baker, the community manager for Open Students. I graduated from the University of Florida in 2007, in political science. As a student, I was involved in a number of initiatives to support open access, which you can read about here. I’m pleased now to be launching Open Students as a platform to engage the student community, and as a forum to encourage dialogue.
Open Students is proudly sponsored by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, as part of its student outreach activities.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be writing about issues that affect students, covering the latest news, and introducing a great cast of contributors and guest bloggers from all walks of life. So check back often or subscribe to our RSS feed — and tell a friend!
We’re changing the way that research is disseminated. We are Open Students.
10 comments
A very nice step towards the coalition of diversified research minds in the world.
I appreciate this move for the integration.
What do you mean by Open Access to research?
great initiative
Good work Gavin, SPARC, and all other interested parties. This is a great initiative to educate and fire-up the future generation of researchers
I’ll make sure to spread the word and contribute where I can.
Patrick Welch
Masters student in Clinical Psychology,
University of Regina
It is not only “a great initiative to educate the future generation or researchers” it could be the best initiative to educate “old researchers” who are too slow to understand what is at stake with Open Access .
Hélène Bosc
Good initiative. Look forward to your plans. Will encourage our students to get involved.
Hi there from PLoS, congrats, nice move, let us know how we can help. Varunag, I am happy to explain Open Access to research to you anytime, the best place to start is http://www.plos.org.
Posted a note about Open Students at http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/open-students-changing-the-way-that-research-is-disseminated/
Hi there,
I am glad that the impact of Open Access on the younger generations finally found a platform. I have commented in more detail at
http://www.ways.org/en/2008/jan/31/1915/daniel/open_students_platform_students_speak_out_open_access_research_findings .
I was definitely glad to see this initiative, and I would love to contribute to it (if you so desire). I can be contacted thought my blog Laelaps (http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps) and I hope that Open Students turns out to be a vibrant and rewarding project!
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