A Journal of Insignificant Inquiry
There are a number of available remedies (e.g. 1, 2, 3) to the problems posed by authors signing away their copyright to academic journals. But the thicket of solutions and the surrounding rhetoric can sometimes muddy up what the real problem is. So let’s be clear:
Researchers want to publish their research in academic journals.
As author, [...]
On Dec. 26, President Bush signed HR 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, bringing into law a requirement for a mandatory public access policy for National Institutes of Health grantees.
Peter Suber has (as usual!) been covering events at Open Access News, and today adds his comments in his newsletter. If you’re unfamiliar with the policy, start [...]
I was reminded by the recent release of the new Affero GPL (very welcome news!) of the ongoing revision of another Free Software Foundation license, the GNU Free Documentation License (and its derivative, the Simpler FDL).
The GFDL is the license used by Wikipedia, resulting in a wealth of free content available under that license. Unfortunately, [...]
In the latest SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Peter Suber posts the results of research with Caroline Sutton on scholarly society publishers with open access journals. At its core is a list of open access journals affiliated with scholarly societies and various characteristics associated; the post contains some analysis. The list and analysis also considers society [...]
I get a bit defensive when I see my friends getting sued – perhaps a little bit due to my loathing for the seemingly inevitable day when I, too, get sued. So I was irked when I heard this week that Creative Commons had been dragged into a lawsuit by a photographer and his subject [...]
