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March 24, 2013 – 4:05 pm |

AdaCamp is a conference dedicated to increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture: open source software, Wikipedia-related projects, open data, open geo, fan fiction, remix culture, and more. AdaCamp brings women together to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to …

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Public Access Policy for U.S. funded Research

May 24, 2012 – 2:11 pm |
We the people: your voice in our government

Open access advocates have created a White House petition asking the President to consider expanding the Public Access Policy of the NIH http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ to cover all journal articles generated from federally-funded research.
The White House’s petition platform stipulates that any petition receiving more than 25,000 signatures requires a response from the …

#AAAfail & Open Access (at it again)

May 17, 2012 – 8:17 am | 2 Comments

The other day, I took a survey for the American Anthropological Association (I’m a recovering anthropologist) that had to do with the associations’ adminstration “pushing back” (h8rs) against the idea of open access publishing (see here for back story if you’re interested). If you read their overview of open access, …