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Posts from ‘September, 2008’

Ludicrously closed access; or how to alienate readers and look foolish

It started with a post the liblicense mailing list, announcing a new journal entitled the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. The journal, the post said, was published by the Haworth Press (a subsidiary of Taylor & Francis since its acquisition last year). The inaugural issue had been released, according to the announcement, and it appeared [...]

Open access and the new WIPO director

This week, the World Intellectual Property Organization named a new director general, Francis Gurry of Australia. In his acceptance speech, Gurry called for the world “IP” system to serve the goals of access to knowledge and information equity. He also commended the goals of the Development Agenda. Both are welcome statements from the new DG. [...]

I’m on Rocketboom

…after a fashion. They use a photo of me around the one minute mark in today’s video, during a discussion of DRM. The photo’s from the DRM protests at the Students for Free Culture conference in Boston last year. I’m photogenic enough to be Generic Protester, then.
I forget who took the photo, either Karen or [...]

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