Open@VT
Open Access, Open Data, and Open Educational Resources
Worth Reading: Easy Steps, Hybrid OA, Elsevier, Jack Andraka
Ross Mounce puts almost everything you need to know in one place with his post Easy Steps Towards Open Scholarship.
I’ve thought from the start that paying to have a single article open access in an otherwise paywalled subscription journal was a bad idea, and the many problems of hybrid open access are detailed nicely by Mike Taylor.
Timothy Gowers- who began the petition against Elsevier called The Cost of Knowledge – posts the resignation of an Elsevier editorial board member. In short, nothing has changed at Elsevier, except that they are now paying editors.
In the “worth viewing” category, the Right to Research Coalition, a student group advocating open access, posts a video conversation between Jack Andraka, 16-year old cancer researcher, and Francis Collins, head of the NIH.
