Category Archives: Education

Scholarly publishers shake down a copy shop

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Gavin Baker

A group of scholarly publishers — Blackwell, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Sage, and Wiley — last week won a judgment against a Michigan copy shop for assisting students in copying course packs. The students were copying articles from scholarly journals … Continue reading →

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AcaWiki launches: free summaries of academic papers

Posted on 8 October 2009 by Gavin Baker

As I reported at Open Access News, AcaWiki launched yesterday. The idea is free (gratis, libre), editable (wiki) summaries of academic papers. These summaries might be useful to scan during a literature review or when studying for a class, or … Continue reading →

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On jurisdiction; or, letting copyright trump science

Posted on 8 March 2009 by Gavin Baker

Rep. John Conyers has released his response to the widely-circulated open letter by Lawrence Lessig and Michael Eisen criticizing Conyers’ anti-open access bill, H.R. 801. Eisen, Steven Harnad, and Peter Suber have already responded ably to Conyers’ response. There’s one … Continue reading →

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Liveblog: TACD IP: Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge

Posted on 13 January 2009 by Gavin Baker

The next panel is on Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge. First is Anne-Catherine Lorrain of Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue. Interoperability should be a public principle. ISP liability: Pressure for filtering solutions (consumer surveillance). Government procurement should require open standards. … Continue reading →

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