Following on the resolution that UF’s Student Senate passed in May 2006, two more student governments have issued official statements of support.

• Trinity University: The Association of Student Representatives adopted its resolution on March 26, 2007.
• Oberlin College: The Student Senate adopted its resolution on March 18, 2007.

(Via Open Access News)

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In response to the resolution that UF’s Student Senate passed in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act, Stevan Harnad has blogged a list of suggestions: What Students Can Do To Support OA.

There’s also a section for students in Peter Suber’s What you can do to promote open access.

Two suggestions I’d make, that anyone can do:

• Sign the Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States
• Join Access to Research Now! on Facebook (if you use Facebook)

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If you weren’t able to make it to the open access panel on Feb. 15, or if you want more information, there is an upcoming seminar on the subject at the USDA lab.

The seminar will be on Feb. 21 at 10:30 am. The speaker is Dr. Henry Hagedorn, from the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It will be in the main conference room (room 102) of building 11 of the Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, located at 1600 SW 23^rd Dr.. (Building 11 is the southernmost building — the one closest to Archer Rd. The number is marked on the building exterior.)

There is some parking outside the building. It’s along the route of the number 9 bus, down Mowry Rd. and past Campus Edge. There is also a nearby stop for buses 1, 12, and (I believe) 35 and 36, on Archer Rd. at the intersection with SW 23^rd Dr. (in front of Mount Vernon Apartments).

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Here are the slides from the open access panel on Feb. 15:

• Gavin Baker
• Stephanie Haas
• Ashley Wills

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Shouldn’t the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?

Florida Free Culture and Universities Allied for Essential Medicine present a panel on access to research. Come hear from students, researchers, and librarians on how open access is changing science — and how you can get involved.

The event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 pm in CSE room E221. (The Computer Science & Engineering building is located near the Hub, on Turlington Plaza between Marston Science Library and Turlington Hall.)

For more information, visit the student resource page from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.

Funded by Student Government.

UPDATE: Links to Facebook event and press release.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
doors open at 7 pm
Emerson Alumni Hall, UF campus
1938 W. University Ave.
free and open to the public

Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is one of the top 20 most visited sites on the Internet, according to alexa.com. Wales is the chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. An internationally renowned speaker and former Internet entrepreneur, Wales is also a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Wales will speak on Wikipedia and the philosophy of free culture, relating it to universities’ commitments to access to knowledge and the public good. His keynote will be followed by questions from the audience, and a discussion panel.

Panel members are Wales and the following:

• Alex Goldman, sociology instructor and doctoral student, on using Wikipedia and wikis in education;
• T.J. Walker, professor emeritus of entomology, on open access to academic research;
• Ashley Wills, microbiology student, on medical research and university patent licensing;
• Clint Collins, director of operations at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, on open source software.

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