Back in February Harvard adopted a mandate requiring its faculty member to make their research papers available within a year of publication. Stuart Shieber is a computer science professor at Harvard and responsible for proposing the policy. He has since been named director of Harvard’s new Office for Scholarly Communication.
On November 12 Shieber gave […]
Archive for the 'Open Science' Category
Stuart Shieber and the Future of Open Access Publishing
Published November 23rd, 2008 in Developing world, Technology, Talks, Economics, Conferences, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 0 CommentsJustice Scalia (HLS 1960) is speaking at the inaugural Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture today at Harvard Law School. It’s packed - I arrived at 4pm for the 4:30 talk and joined the end of a long line…. then was immediately told the auditorium was full and was relegated to an overflow room with video. I’m […]
A2K3: Opening Scientific Research Requires Societal Change
Published September 10th, 2008 in Developing world, Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 0 CommentsIn the A2K3 panel on Open Access to Science and Research, Eve Gray, from the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, sees the Open Access movement as a real societal change. Accordingly she shows us a picture of Nelson Mandela and asks us to think about his release from prison and the amount […]
Legal Barriers to Open Science: my SciFoo talk
Published September 10th, 2008 in Technology, Statistics, Talks, Conferences, Intellectual Property, Open Science and shameless self-promotion. 0 CommentsI had an amazing time participating at Science Foo Camp this year. This is a unique conference: there are 200 invitees comprising some of the most innovative thinkers about science today. Most are scientists but not all - there are publishers, science reporters, scientific entrepreneurs, writers on science, and so on. I met old friends […]
A2K3 Kaltura Award
Published September 10th, 2008 in Statistics, Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property, Open Science and shameless self-promotion. 0 CommentsI am honored and humbled to win the A2K3 Kaltura prize for best paper. Peter Suber posts about it here and gives the abstract. His post also includes a link to a draft of the paper, which can also be found here: Enabling Reproducible Research: Open Licensing For Scientific Innovation. I’d love comments and […]
A2K3: A World Trade Agreement for Knowledge?
Published September 8th, 2008 in Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 1 CommentThiru Balasubramanian, Geneva Representative for Knowledge Ecology International presents a proposal (from a forthcoming paper by James Love and Manon Ress) for a WTO treaty on knowledge (so far all WTO agreements extend to private goods only). Since information is a public good (nonrival and nonexcludable), we will have a “market failure” if single countries […]
A2K3: Tim Hubbard on Open Science
Published September 8th, 2008 in Developing world, Technology, Human Rights, Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 3 CommentsIn the first panel at A2K3 on the history, impact, and future of the global A2K movement, Tim Hubbard, a genetics researcher, laments that scientists tend to carry out their work in a closed way and thus very little data is released. In fact he claims that biologists used to deliberately mess up images so […]
