Gavin Baker at Openstudents.org has a blog post about students and open access. The post highlights a letter to the editor at Georgetown and University of Michigan librarian Molly Kleinman pondering the possible role of undergraduates in advocating open access. From the Kleinman’s post:
The high cost of purchasing scholarly journals contributes to the rising cost of education, and the rising cost of education is a hot topic in these dire economic times. If we can get students riled up about open access – and that’s still a big if – they might have more luck influencing the behavior of their professors than librarians have. While before I thought that targeting students for open access outreach was a waste of time, now I believe it’s worth a shot.
