Dartmouth Scholarship

Open Dartmouth: Hilary Ryder, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute, Associate Professor of Medical Education

I’ve found that OA publication is a great way to reach a large and interested international audience. In medical education, which is my field of interest, many international community members do not have the ability to subscribe to...

Open Dartmouth: Pallab Sarker, Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

I believe that open-source knowledge exchange is critical for accelerating the rate of innovation and impact and our goals prioritize societal sustainability outcomes. This will also help publicize availability of our results throughout...

Open Dartmouth: Olga Zhaxybayeva, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science, Simons Foundation Investigator in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems, 2018-19 Douglas C. Floren Fellow

"Thirty-seven out of my 51 publications in peer-reviewed journals (73%) are either Open Access or their full text became available after some time (6- 12 months since publication, or in some cases later). Everything I published since 2015...

Open Dartmouth: Glyn Elwyn, Professor of The Dartmouth Institute, Professor of Community and Family Medicine

My research in Shared Decision Making supports deeper collaboration between patients and clinicians, making it essential that these ideas reach all the way to the public to include everyone - patients, caregivers, clinicians, etc. Here at...

Open Dartmouth: Gevorg Grigoryan, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry

Publishing in open-access journals ultimately translates into higher visibility of the work. It means any researcher in the world, whether they work in a small or large company, a small or large university, or any other institution, can...

Open Dartmouth: Hany Farid, Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science & Julia Dressel '17

"It is, of course, always best for scientists to publish their work in Open Access journals so that the public has free and unfettered access to the latest scientific results. In the case of Julia Dressel’s thesis work, this was...

Open Dartmouth: Peter Winkler, William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

"Mathematics research is something that can be done, and indeed is done, around the world. Mathematical talent is found everywhere and very little is needed in the way of resources-often, just a pencil and paper. But access to articles is...

Open Dartmouth: Vicki May, Associate Professor of Engineering

"I am currently developing a Massive Open Online Course (or MOOC) entitled ‘ The Engineering of Structures Around Us,’ which is free and open to the anyone around the world but is targeted at high school students. One of my main reasons...

Open Dartmouth: Wojciech Jarosz, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

"In my research, I develop new algorithms to more efficiently produce photorealistic computer generated images by simulating how light interacts with its environment. This work often builds upon techniques developed decades ago in areas...

Open Dartmouth: Dan Rockmore, Associate Dean for the Sciences; Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science; William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science; Professor of Mathematics &Computer Science

Open in order to..."share our understanding and ideas with the world!"

Open Dartmouth: Jeffrey Ruoff, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies

"An open society flourishes from the open exchange of ideas. As Einstein said in 1954: ‘By academic freedom, I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.’ Faculty members are workers like...

Open Dartmouth: Feng Fu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Open in order to..."disseminate my interdisciplinary research broadly and freely to anyone who is interested yet might come from a different field."

Open Dartmouth: Bruce Duncan, Emeritus PRofessor of German Studies

"My various programs, which help students to understand and practice German grammar and to read various great literary works in the original, use computer resources developed at Dartmouth [and] are a result of collaborative work with...

Open Dartmouth: Richard Wright, Professor of Geography; Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs

Why do you share your work? "Because research and teaching is all about communication among different scholars and various publics."

Open Dartmouth: Nathaniel Dominy, Professor of Anthropology

"We committed to open access publishing generally, and especially when our work is funded by federal agencies or occurs in developing countries. Being a scientist is a great privilege and I think we have a moral obligation to share our...

Open Dartmouth: Rachel Obbard, Assistant Professor of Engineeering

"I study sea ice, an important part of the global climate and our ecosystem. Sharing my research with all communities of interest is important to engaging people around environmental problems. My first open access paper was more widely...

Open Dartmouth: Alison V. Holmes, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute

"It is critical to make the results of Dartmouth research better known to pediatricians around the world, as well as to potential students, faculty, and collaborators. The benefit of the Dartmouth Open Access Policy is that even for high...

Open Dartmouth: William Cheng, Assistant Professor of Music

"I have chosen to publish my book, Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016), both in print and OpenAccess so that it can reach as many readers as possible, especially those who might otherwise be...

Open Dartmouth: Jeremy DeSilva, Associate Professor of Anthropology

"As a paleoanthropologist, I study the origins and evolution of humans through the fossil record. What the fossils we find have revealed—the human story—belongs to all of us. Open access publication allows everyone to share in this journey...

Open Dartmouth: Kofi Odame, Associate Professor of Engineering

"Publishing in [an open access] journal gives my work broader accessibility. Of course, I also make preprints of my articles available on my web-site.”

Open Dartmouth: Kevin Reinhart, Associate Professor of Religion

"The Dartmouth Faculty Open Access Policy liberates our scholarship from proprietary presses. It is ethically imperative to make my scholarship available to my colleagues worldwide and to my sources, Turks and Arabs, whose history and...

Open Dartmouth: John Batsis, Associate Professor of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute, Geisel School of Medicine

"Open access permits the dissemination of research studies that our team feels is important enough for researchers to have availability to and not have them restricted to journal subscriptions. This promotes the dissemination of our work."

Open Dartmouth: Lisa Adams, Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine; Associate Dean of Global Health

"While teaching medical students and residents in Rwanda through Dartmouth's participation in the Human Resources for Health program, I saw the benefits of open access publishing first-hand. If we want to have the same expectations for...

Open Dartmouth: Ryan Calsbeek, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

“Science is discovery, not invention. The information we gather about the natural world is information that belongs to everyone and so it should be freely shared."

Open Dartmouth: Elijah Stommel, Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine

"We are studying environmental risk factors for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal disorder with no known cause or cure. We are specifically interested in the neurotoxin BMAA which is produced by cyanobacteria, bacteria that are...

Open Dartmouth: Karl Griswold, Associate Professor of Engineering

"Research advances in biotechnology are happening at an accelerating pace, and timely access to new publications can be critical. Open access ensures that the entire community can view our latest work as it’s published, which benefits...

Open Dartmouth: Michelle Warren, Professor of Comparative Literature

"I study the Mediterranean Middle Ages, quite distant from us yet quite relevant to many issues. Open access connects the past to the future, the local to the global. Open access means hope for equal access. So long as we have electricity."

Open Dartmouth: John Voight, Associate Professor of Mathematics

"I choose open access because my research is funded by taxpayers by a National Science Foundation grant, and so I think the results should be freely available to all. The progress of science relies on wide dissemination, and the ability...

Open Dartmouth: Tom Cormen, Professor of Computer Science & Devin Balkcom, Associate Professor of Computer Science

"We want to bring the algorithmic concepts we teach in Computer Science 1 to a wider-and younger-audience, so we partnered with Khan Academy to produce introductory tutorials with companion quizzes, challenges and projects. Going forward...

Open Dartmouth: Michele Tine, Assistant Professor of Education

"I believe my work reached individuals outside of my field and outside of academia in ways that it would not have otherwise done because of open access. This is particularly important for me because my research has applied implications. ...

Open Dartmouth: William Scott, Emeritus Professor of Classics

"I have written several books on Greek literature, and yet have found the widest readership through a book on oral literature, The Artistry of the Homeric Simile, that I published open access with the Dartmouth College Library."

Open Dartmouth: Annabel Martín, Director of the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID); Associate Professor of Spanish, WGSS, Comparative Literature

"Open access of scholarship in the Humanities is especially important in our age of media inundation. Alternative critical voices doing intense scrutiny of texts and culture and in languages other than English should not be hidden away...

Open Dartmouth: Anne Kapuscinski, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Sustainability Science

"I am fully committed to open access publishing because it takes full advantage of the Internet’s potential to be a beneficial force in the world. As Editor-in-Chief of the Sustainability Transitions knowledge domain of Elementa: Science...

Open Dartmouth: Sol Diamond, Associate Professor of Engineering

"I prefer open access when publishing research that could benefit a broad spectrum of readers within and beyond academia. Dartmouth’s Open-Access Publication Equity Fund plays a key role in enabling me to choose open access because it...

Open Dartmouth: Alex Barnett, Professor, Applied Mathematics

"Co-author Timo Betcke and I wanted to release an open-source software package that implemented our solution methods for wave scattering. The means solving for the way light and sound waves bounce of various geometries of objects. We...

Open Dartmouth: Txetxu Aguado, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

"In my field of studies (Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies / Comparative Literature / and Hispanic Studies), restrictions to open access of materials because of senseless and absurd copyright laws makes my research more difficult...

Open Dartmouth: David Kotz, Champion International Professor

“It takes a great deal of effort to collect data about live, production computer networks, especially those involving mobile computers and wireless links. Thus, it is important for researchers to share these hard-won datasets, amplifying...

Dartmouth Scholarship contains peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings, books, and other works published by Dartmouth faculty, including those from Arts & Sciences, the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business. Most materials in this collection are freely available to read and download to anyone in the world.