Student open access news

Recent news about students and open access:

• Graduate students at the California Institute of Technology are drafting a resolution in support of open access.
• Graduate students at Simon Fraser University launched a new open access journal, called Stream: Culture/Politics/Technology.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on controversy about open access to student creative writings.
• Heather Morrison blogged about the benefit of open access to creating a class list of reserve readings for students.
• Sean Kass, a Harvard law student, released a video on Open Access to Scholarly Publications, originally prepared for class.
• Students at the University of British Columbia had an interesting assignment: produce an open access journal as a class project.
• Oxford Journals launched Bioscience Horizons, an open access journal publishing bioscience research by undergraduate students from the UK and Ireland.
• Oberlin College’s student newspaper published an editorial in support of open access, calling on the college to adopt a policy similar to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

P.S. If you spot a story about students and open access, let me know!