Category — About Open Students

We’re looking for guest bloggers as well regular contributors. For more information, see this page.

Important information for guest bloggers:

Open Students accepts guests posts on any aspect of Open Access. We welcome guest posts by students, faculty, librarians, administrators, publishers, and others.

Posts must be about any aspect of Open Access and must include a discussion of the topic’s relevance to students. The topic may reflect your work, research, or personal experience.

Join the conversation! To get started, contact Gavin at gavin@openstudents.org.

As you may have noticed, I’ve been having some trouble with categories on Open Students lately: namely, that they’ve disappeared. I’ve been trying to resolve this but have been unsuccessful so far. I hope to have the issue straightened out soon.

Also, I’ve upgraded WordPress, the software that runs Open Students, to the latest release candidate. As with any software upgrade, and especially with pre-stable versions, there may be some issues; if you notice anything amiss, please let me know in the comments or via email.

Open Students will briefly be unavailable while we upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Update: Everything should be working again. Please report any problems in the comments or via email to gavin@openstudents.org.

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.

Thanks to the following photographers for use of their work in our rotating header image:

• “olin college” by Paul Keleher, © 2006, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “Stanford University Hallway” by Jeff Pearce, © 2006, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “Technology: Agar Plate” by Bill Branson via NCI Visuals Online, public domain (information)
• “Library” by Stewart Butterfield, © 2006, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “More old books…” by guldfisken, © 2007, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “Igaku Chuo Zasshi” by Peter Kaminski, © 2002, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “Chinese class” by Claire mono, © 2007, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “final exam” by dcJohn, © 2005, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “incisive” by mirrorgirl, © 2007, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “similar” by junichiro aoyama, © 2004, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “Creation” by Ariana Rose Taylor-Stanley, © 2005, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “MIT in Cambridge, MA: Main building with dome.” by alex.ch, © 2006, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “IRRIDB0129M6MX1633″ by the International Rice Research Institute, © 2006, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
• “uf3″ by Daniel A. Smith, © 2006, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

Open Students is a blog for students about open access to research.

Staff:

• Gavin Baker, Open Students community manager
  • BA (political science), University of Florida, 2007
  • Personal Web site
  • SPARC Innovator profile
  • Email: gavin@openstudents.org

Open Students is sponsored by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, as part of its student outreach activities.