Category — Theses and Dissertations
Recent news on students and open access
- University of Michigan librarian Molly Kleinman writes that undergraduates have an important role to play in advocating for open access.
- An op-ed in a University of California, Berkeley student newspaper calls for students to use Creative Commons licenses for their theses and dissertations.
- A blog at Georgetown University profiles Kevin Donovan of Students for Free Culture and the chapter’s hopes to support open access and open educational resources at the school.
- Students at the University of New Mexico are criticizing traditional textbooks and calling for open textbooks.
- Uwe Thomas Müller’s dissertation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin examines peer-review processes at open access journals.
- Martin Boosen’s master’s thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne looks at institutional repositories in Germany.
- Claudio Marconi’s undergraduate thesis at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” looks at open access as a new method of diffusion for scientific literature.
April 1, 2009 4 Comments
Recent news on students and open access
- An op-ed in Georgetown University’s student newspaper criticizes Rep. John Conyers’ bill to overturn the NIH Public Access Policy and calls for open access to publicly-funded research.
- The Göttingen Journal of International Law is a new student-edited open access journal published by the University of Göttingen.
- Two students at the University of California, Berkeley used Creative Commons licenses for their dissertations. See the story in the Daily Californian and blog posts by Creative Commons and one of the authors.
- An op-ed in the University of Maryland’s student newspaper calls for open textbooks.
March 4, 2009 2 Comments
