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Intellectual Property chapter of #TPP poses threat to Open Access
This year, several announcements and blog posts combined to focus my attention on a slightly different question. What problems can open access solve? The answer seems obvious; open access will solve the problem of highly restricted and limited access to scholarship. A somewhat different problem that OA can help solve is the problem of scholarship locked up in the hands of badly run businesses that have come to believe that their inefficient and ineffective ways of doing business must be preserved at all costs.
We've long advocated for public support of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, or FASTR, an important bill that will go far to promote open access to federally funded research.
More on the JLA editorial revolt
OA journal re-enclosed.
The name of Xavier’s disorder is virtually unpronounceable: megalencephaly, polymicrogyria, polydactyly, and hydrocephalus syndrome, or MPPH for short. First identified in 2004, the syndrome is little understood, with no known cause and only about a dozen cases worldwide. “I think that the case for open access really hits home when you have a situation where … Continue reading How Open Access Scholarship Saves Lives →
By Peter Binfield, co-founder of PeerJ and previously the Publisher of PLOS ONE. This post follows a talk at the University of British Columbia, which can be recorded and can be viewed here. The slides for the talk, synched with the audio of the talk, is available on Slideshare. The original dataset for this article,...
How to negotiate a contract to be more permissive.
Open access to research is still held back by misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better, says Peter Suber
A useful history of the open access movement, through an Eisen-specific lens. Also good background on impact factor.
Should we fear open source software? Of course not. But that hasn’t stopped federal courts from issuing bizarre warnings like this: The court would like to make CM/ECF filers aware of certain
On a 16-year-old OA clearinghouse in comp/rhet.
From Brill Publishing: Brill extends Brill Open, its Open Access model, to include books. Titles published in Brill Open undergo the same rigorous peer review and uphold the same high-quality publication standards that Brill is known for.
Caren Milloy looks at some of the approaches publishers are taking to experiment with open-access monographs
On AHA and "da book."
What's going on with OA in neuroscience. tl;dr version: "not much."
Honest, funny look at getting a mandate passed.
I’ve long preached the message of open access publication/sharing of student work via platforms like OA institutional repositories and Wikipedia as an unparalleled means to engage students an…