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.