A presentation made by Peter Binfield, of Public Library of Science (PLoS), to the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting, June 1st 2011. Describing the…

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Lecture at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 April 2011: A new talk about open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School. ;

I’ve been growing more and more concerned about the effects of the Ingelfinger Rule, the policy by which journals refuse to publish anything that’s appeared in the mainstream press or i…

The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported.   And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.  That fact is both the problem and the opportunity of a leaky paywall. There is no one consistent, workable price for o…

Let us speak plainly.   Ebooks are the proverbial iceberg on the horizon of libraries. If the library profession doesn't act appropriately, ...

One question that often comes up as we transition to open access publishing is how to assess new open access journals. How do we know that t...

IEEE changes previous enlightened IR policy. Academic samizdat shrinking...

Journals that consider an online poster posting to be "prior publication." At a guess, they're not keen on preprints either.

(woo-hoo, a cite and hefty quotation from Salo 2010!)

Overview The Bucknell Scholarly Communications Practices Survey was administered during a 24 day period from Oct. 12, 2010 to Nov. 5, 2010.  All Bucknell faculty members were invited to participate via the Bucknell message center.  115 completed questionnaires were submitted giving the survey a 33% response rate. Faculty members were from the following academic divisions: Natural Sciences and Mathematics:  36 Humanities:  28 Social Sciences:  26 Engineering:  11 Management:  7 No Response:  7 All faculty ranks were represented, with the following distribution: Professor: 21.2% Associate Professor: 38.1% Assistant Professor: 32.7% Visiting Assistant Professor or other non-tenure track position: 8.0% Overall, Bucknell […]

Today’s announcement from the Labor Department that it is requiring the work product of $500 million (the first tranche of $2 billion appropriated) in new grant money to be free for others to reuse represents a fundamental and laudable shift...

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Mary Minow had a chance to talk with a colleague at Harvard Law School about Open Access.Nearly two years ago, the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously voted to grant the ...