from Inside Higher Education: On July 19, 2009, Edward T. Larkin, a professor of German at the University of New Hampshire, drove his motorcycle down Route 101 to the Market Basket in Milford. He pulled into the parking lot behind a car in which a 17-year-old girl was driving her mother. Larkin park[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
LETTER FROM ELSEVIER: THEY WITHDRAW SUPPORT FOR THE RESEARCH WORKS ACT
At Elsevier, we have always focused on serving the global research community and ensuring the best possible access to research publications and data. In recent weeks, our support for the Research Works Act has caused some in the community to question that commitment. We have heard expressions of sup[...]
The Dangerous “Research Works Act”
Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu from TECHCRUNCH Congress is currently considering a bill called “The Research Works Act”, whose purpose is to restrict public access to publicly-funded research. The bill is sponsored by large academic publishers who are keen to keep all research, i[...]
Are American Universities the Quislings of China?
As more American universities open campuses in China, they’re bending to the country’s censorship rules. Isaac Stone Fish reports from Beijing. (excerpted and adapted) UC Berkeley announced on Nov. 11 that it plans to open a campus in Shanghai. Stanford Center will open in P[...]
December 11th, 2011 - 12:18 pm § in America, Hypocrisy, Politics, Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene, UW
Where Were the UW Faculty?????
Friday night I went with about 1000 friends to hear speeches on our economy. The speakers were Maria Cantwell and Elizabeth Warren, probably the most outspoken leaders for reform of our management class excesses. Professor Warren was spectacular. For the first time I heard a major speaker suppor[...]
Evangelism Spoils the Sweet Milk of the Sacred Cow
A sacred cow of American politics is that freedom of religion is not the same as freedom from religion. The view from India, a land with a far greater history of religious tolerance than our own, is very different. Excerpted from an essay by Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. Co-Founder/Managing Director, Hind[...]
Cambridge Univ. Press.: Pay to read articles just like renting movies!
By Jennifer Howard Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2011, read at permalink. Will researchers pay for short-term access to journal articles? Cambridge University Press is about to find out. The publisher has just announced a rental program for articles from the more than 280 peer-reviewed[...]
China:Ai Weiwei supporters strip off as artist faces ‘porn’ investigation
Nude photographs posted in riposte to Chinese police interrogation of videographer for picture of Ai and women naked from the Guardian When artist Ai Weiwei disappeared, supporters made online appeals for his return. When authorities handed him a £1.5m tax bill, they sent money to help pay it. And [...]
December 2nd, 2011 - 10:33 am § in Hypocrisy
Big Publishers Buy British Library Access Rights
British Library Group Doesn’t Ditch Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell December 1, 2011, 12:41 pm By Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle A major British library group announced today that it has struck new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, two of the largest publishers of academic journals. The gr[...]
Chaos at Jefferson’s University
Few Americans understand the significance of the University of Virginia to world history. U Va was Thomas Jefferson’s proudest creation, the world’s first PUBLIC university. Moreover, in the tradition of Jefferson, U Va was created as place where ordinary citizens could participate i[...]