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Medical school open access journals teach open knowledge values

Tweet I was looking around YouTube for student perspectives on open access, and I found a student describing her work with a medical school student journal, the University of British Columbia Medical Journal (UBCMJ) UBCMJ has a tag line, “By Students, For the World.” If you take a look at their copyright and consent form (PDF), [...]

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Fri, February 3 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Open Access Fellows (students) facilitate DASH deposits at Harvard

Tweet I was checking out The Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) repository and saw the announcement that Open Access Fellows are Harvard students (both undergraduate and graduate) who help faculty to make deposits into DASH, answer questions about the Open Access Policies, and help depositors complete metadata descriptions of items being placed in the repository.   Great [...]

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Sat, June 4 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments

NEJM hordes taxpayer images…Chi-Ching$, Chi-Ching$

Tweet Sometimes the soft firewall I try to keep between this blog and daily life at a top-tier academic medical center library just breaks down. One of my favorite scientist teachers down the hall turned to me when her favorite librarian wasn’t available.  She was preparing a lecture for this fall’s new class of medical [...]

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Tue, August 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments