Monthly Archives: January 2009

Liveblog: BRDI: Discussion with Sponsors

Posted on 29 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

I’m liveblogging the first meeting of the new Board on Research Data and Information today and tomorrow, and will be liveblogging. Standard liveblogging disclaimers apply. The presentation slides are on the meeting site. Because the slides are online, I’ll focus … Continue reading →

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Liveblog: BRDI: Briefings from Federal Interagency Data and Information Groups

Posted on 29 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

I’m attending the first meeting of the new Board on Research Data and Information today and tomorrow, and will be liveblogging. Standard liveblogging disclaimers apply. The presentation slides are on the meeting site. Because the slides are online, I’ll focus … Continue reading →

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Incentives and disincentives to OA

Posted on 26 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

A few things have sharpened my thinking since my last post, which was poorly titled What are the factors inhibiting OA? The comments were helpful, particularly Dorothea Salo’s, which she continued on her blog and via email. The point is … Continue reading →

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What are the factors inhibiting OA?

Posted on 19 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

Michael’s comment on my earlier post got me thinking: What are all the factors inhibiting uptake of OA by authors, funders, institutions, and publishers? And how important is each factor? There’s a folk wisdom about these questions already. How many … Continue reading →

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Exceptionalism in science and in cyberspace

Posted on 18 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

I’ve noticed that there’s a prominent streak of exceptionalism in thinking about science as well as about the Internet. In both cases, there’s a sense of otherness, of separation, of being a sui generis entity in the world and in … Continue reading →

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OA at TACD IP

Posted on 17 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

I previously liveblogged the sessions from Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years, hosted by Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (Washington, DC, January 12-13, 2009). Now I want to go back through the notes (which are cursory and, to … Continue reading →

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How to negotiate a Creative Commons license in a work contract

Posted on 14 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

Michael Mandiberg has written a piece, HOWTO Negotiate a Creative Commons License: Ten Steps, targeted at authors working with commercial publishers. I’ve encountered a similar challenge in a different context: work contracts. Even friendly organizations tend to use legal boilerplate … Continue reading →

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TACD IP conference review

Posted on 13 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

Here are my liveblog posts from Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years, hosted by Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (Washington, DC, January 12-13, 2009), in the order of the sessions [not necessarily the order I posted them]: Setting … Continue reading →

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