Don't underestimate the value of working for change locally. Whether the topic is open access to research or to educational resources, and whether the approach is "carrots" or "sticks", it's possible to have significant impact in your own backyard.
Being engaged with debates at the national (and state, and international) level is important, too. But other people will speak up there. If you're at (say) Yale, who's going to speak up for OA at Yale if not you? Of course, I refer you to SPARC's Student Guide to Opening Access to Scholarship for more ideas: http://www.arl.org/sparc/students/ Think globally, act locally! http://www.gavinbaker.com/conferences/sustainability/ccglobally.png Rich Jones wrote: > Perhaps we can consider a new tactic! > > Rather than each of us campaigning for OA with our small organizations > at our individual universities, let's find out who we need to target > at a higher level. > > We need to know who are the people at the NSF and other federal grant > organization that approve spending and we need to let them know that > it is 2009 and no longer acceptable to give money to educational > institutes who don't create OER. And we need to let them know loudly. > > This would also let us directly unite with groups like the Alliance > for Taxpayer Access. > > R > > PS Are there scripts automatically generating emails with certain key > phrases we can write? Then we can mass email them from either our > emails or disposable accounts. -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ [email protected] in the dream my dog has a whistle only I can hear John Stevenson _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
