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While its ways are sometimes criticized as opaque, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences took a big step towards openness yesterday, passing a motion that will allow Harvard to freely distribute scholarly articles produced by FAS professors.
Professors at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) could easily have been forgiven for thinking that they were in a time warp: same issue, same players, same dispute—but this time, different results.
December’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was dominated by discussion of one issue—Harvard’s handling of the Israel-Palestine conflict—to the neglect of General Education and curricular reform. The subsequent January meeting was cancelled due to...
The motion before the FAS in support of open access to scholarly articles concerns openness in general. It is meant to promote the free communication of knowledge. By retaining rights for the widest possible dissemination of the faculty’s work, it would make scholarship by members of the...
A recent paper published in the biology journal Proteomics, which invoked ideas of creationism with little supporting evidence for the claim, has caused controversy within the scientific community. The authors of the study, Mohamad Warda and Jin Han, scientists at Inje University in South Korea, used the idea of a...