On September 29th, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act. The law mandates that the public be given free access […]
Author Archives: Stephen Sturgeon
Two Articles on Laboratory Fraud and Government-funded Research
First, from the New York Times, an opinion piece titled Crack Down on Scientific Fraudsters that hits particularly close to home: a researcher at Iowa State University faked lab results […]
On the Permanence of Open Access, by Ed Folsom
Today’s Open Access Week guest post comes from Ed Folsom, Professor in the English department at the University of Iowa. He is the co-Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive, “an […]
Defending the Cultural Commons: the Avant-Garde and Information Activism, by Stephen Voyce
Today’s Open Access Week guest post comes from Stephen Voyce, Assistant Professor in the University of Iowa’s English department. It is an excerpt from an essay titled “Toward an Open-Source […]
On Not Being Published, by Stephen Ramsay
Open Access Week 2013 begins today, and all week we’ll be running posts by guest bloggers on open access and contemporary scholarship in the Humanities. Today’s post comes from Stephen […]