Archive for the 'Open Access' Category

Harvard Law School goes Open Access

Here at Harvard College Free Culture, we’re all mostly recuperating from the seven-month adventure that was the creation and execution of ROFLCon (which was, by the way, a smashing success!). However, in a downhill battle like ours, victories keep on rolling in even while we rest. Today it was announced that the Harvard Law School [...]

Crimson Op-Ed about Free Thesis Project

Yesterday, the Crimson published an op-ed encouraging students to participate in our Free Thesis Project, the online open-access repository of undergraduate theses that members of Harvard FC built last year. It only has 19 submissions in it now, but we hope this op-ed will really raise awareness about it and make it much bigger! If [...]

The Free Music Project

Freeculture.org has set out to collect the world’s best free music, and we need your help. Last week, we unveiled the Free Music Project website. The goal of the project is to compile a collection of good quality, freely licensed music. In addition, the first venture of the FMP will be to help curate material [...]

It’s Open Access Day!

Well we’ve been busy at work preparing for the February 15th National Day of Action on Open Access. You might want to check out our Open Access bookmarks (vector format here, thanks Rebecca!) that we’ll be distributing throughout the day to students and Harvard libraries.
We’ll also be sponsoring an Open Access forum next week in [...]

OA in NYC

A group of us will be headed to NYC this weekend to attend the Free Culture summit on Open Access this weekend at NYU. We’ll have some great guests, including the Editor of PLoS One, the Director of Science Commons, and a representative of SPARC.
If you’re not already on board, you should come [...]