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...mental illness in their students. Student groups have also sought to emphasize the importance of undergraduate mental health in recent years. Eunice Yang ’08, co-chair of the Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group, said that her organization worked closely with Barreira to make its peer mental health liaisons available to students in each of the Houses. “Making proctors and tutors more knowledgeable is not enough,” said Barriera. “The success of making Harvard a supportive community are the creative ideas of students...
...noted in the Crimson editorial, volunteer peer reviewers provide the primary means of maintaining the integrity and quality of scholarship in academic journals. Peer review, however, rests on a complex underlying system. Our journals review nearly 50,000 papers every year, with help from some tens of thousands of distinct referees. Managing this requires large and sophisticated electronic resources (databases of referees, their areas of expertise and current assignments, the status of papers under review, etc.), associated support personnel, and many paid full- and part-time editors, nearly all Ph.D. physicists (more than 150 at present). Most of our editorial...
...short, where the Crimson editorial claims that the internet could replace peer-reviewed scholarly journals “for free or at very low cost,” our experience inside the world of scholarly publishing suggests otherwise. Nothing that provides a service is free. Open access for scholarly publications will improve the academic exchange of ideas only if a sensible economic model evolves in parallel. Giving away something for free is always appealing, but advocates for unfettered open access should do their homework and learn again that you get what...
...sent to some of American universities’ most profligate downloaders (evidently, the first seven waves failed to frighten people off). This new offensive was followed by a high-profile legal victory over Jammie Thomas, a Native American woman who may have illegally transmitted twenty-four songs over the peer-to-peer transfer program called Kazaa. The jury that ruled on Ms. Thomas’ case awarded the plaintiffs $9,250 in damages per song, totaling $220,000. Though Ms. Thomas could have originally settled for much less, it seems the record companies’ strategy in the case...
Responding to intense criticism, the CDC is looking into forming external peer review panels to re-examine select-agent regulations and lab-safety procedures. The agency may also modify reporting requirements - possibly allowing some measure of anonymity, for example, to minimize disincentives for revealing accidents. "This is a relatively young program [which] is providing much improved oversight, but clearly there is more than we can do," says Richard Besser, director for the CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, who defends the recent lab expansion in the U.S., saying it will lead to better diagnostics and make...